The NBA stream a regular-season game via Facebook Live for the first time on January 2nd across India. Sunday’s game, which saw the Sacramento Kings lose against the Golden State Warriors, was available to fans in India across the Facebook pages of the Kings, the NBA and The Warriors. The Facebook stream featured the league’s […]
Disney’s ABC Television Group (DATG) and Snap have announced an agreement through which DATG will produce original episodic shows for multimedia mobile app Snapchat in the US. ABC’s reality series The Bachelor will be DATG’s first brand to co-produce a series with Snapchat for Discover, with its first episode debuting on January 3rd – the […]
Twitter users can now stream stream live video directly from the app, in a similar way to Facebook and YouTube. The new service is in the process of being rolled out across all Android and iOS devices globally. Periscope already offered the feature via Twitter – but the update allows users to go live straight […]
Dror Ginzberg, Co-Founder & CEO of video creation platform Wochit, has outlined his industry predicitons for 2017, including a decline in pay-TV subscribers; a rise in online sports; and increased video presence on social media platforms. 1. Social media platforms will keep trying to perfect video Ginzberg, firstly commented: “Last year saw Facebook Live’s release in […]
Global advertising expenditure in social media will grow 72 per cent between 2016 and 2019, rising from $29 billion (€27bn) to $50 billion, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts. Social media advertising will account for 20 per cent of all internet advertising in 2019, up from 16 per cent in 2016. Social media advertising is […]
Spain’s premier football league La Liga and Microsoft are forming a global alliance that seeks to transform the experience of football fans through innovative digital solutions. The agreement, which plans the development of various lines of action, will enable the 1.6 billion worldwide followers of La Liga through social media channels to access innovative digital […]
The TF1 group has announced the acquisition of a majority interest in the capital of MinuteBuzz, French millennials’ favourite social platform with 9 million subscribers and 2 billion videos viewed in 2016 to date.. This deal will unlock editorial and commercial synergies between TF1 group entities and MinuteBuzz. The challenge is to address the demand […]
Netgem, the end-to-end video entertainment provider, has announced the launch of Watch on Twitter. The new functionality, which is now available to operators across Netgem’s global footprint, has been incorporated into the #TelcoTV cloud platform and is designed to enrich TV viewers’ experience. The new service, which has seen its first launch on EE TV […]
Cisneros Interactive, a digital advertising division of Cisneros, has signed on to become the reseller partner for Facebook in four key Latin American markets: Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Venezuela. Cisneros Interactive will hire local teams exclusively dedicated to servicing Facebook’s clients in these countries. “We are very exiting about this partnership with Facebook,” said Victor […]
Some of the world’s biggest football clubs, including Arsenal, Barcelona, Chelsea and Bayern Munich, teamed up to launch a new social media network aimed at football fans. Dugout.com, which has also signed partnerships with over 150 players including Gareth Bale, Alexis Sanchez and Neymar, has launched globally in eight languages. The site promises to offer […]