As the Premier League’s January transfer window reaches its final hours, Sky Sports News HQ will offer more ways than ever before for football fans to stay up to date with the latest news. Sky Sports is partnering with Twitter to deliver a global live stream from the Sky Sports Newsroom on January 31st at […]
Massive collections of fake accounts are lying dormant on Twitter, according to research obtained by the BBC. The largest network ties together in excess of 350,000 accounts and further work suggests others may be even bigger. UK researchers accidentally uncovered the bots network while probing Twitter to study how people use it. Some of the […]
PA Group – the parent company of the Press Association (PA), the national news agency for the UK and Ireland – has made a strategic investment in the social video creation platform Wochit. Wochit enables content producers, including media and publishing companies, to create socially-optimised videos quickly. PA joins a growing list of global media […]
Research from Neilsen reveals that more time than ever before is being spent using social media. “With the ubiquity of the smartphone – now firmly in the hands of over 87 per cent of the US adult population, as well as tablets and PCs, brands and content creators
Michael Lynton, CEO of Sony Entertainment, has confirmed that he is departing the company to fully focus on his role as Chair of Snap Inc – owners of social app Snapchat and a company in which he was an early investor. Lynton will stay with Sony for another six months as he works with overall […]
Facebook is preparing to test mid-roll video advertising – in which ads are played midway through a video that a user is watching. The ads would likely first appear in Facebook videos by professional publishers, according to reports. To date, the Facebook has resisted allowing pre-roll ads, that play before a video starts, which are […]
BT Sport is to offer a free simulcast of the NBA Global Game between the Denver Nuggets and Indiana Pacers on January 12th to fans across the UK on Facebook, Freeview and Virgin Media. It will be the first time an NBA game will be shown live on Facebook in the UK. Fans will be […]
Snap, the company behind social media messaging app Snapchat, has confirmed it will set up its main international hub in the UK. The company says it chose Britain because of the nation’s “strong creative industries” in a move that bucks the general Brexit mood. Claire Valoti, Snap’s UK general manager, said: “The UK is where […]
Broadcasters and programme-makers can now incorporate user generated content into their edits and on social media with a new software development kit available on the Forscene cloud video platform. Dubbed Camera SDK, the tool is being used for the first time by Licklemor Productions to increase audience engagement on the popular Sky1 youth magazine show, […]
Facebook has appointed former CNN news anchor Campbell Brown to head up its news partnerships. Brown said that she will be helping news organisations and journalists work “more closely and more effectively with Facebook…. I will be working directly with our partners to help them understand how Facebook can expand the reach of their journalism, and […]