Facebook is rolling out the ability for users to stream videos from Facebook to their TV, allowing them to enjoy their favourite videos on a larger screen through devices such as Apple TV or Google Chromecast. According to Brent Ayrey, Product Director, Facebook is focused on creating video experiences that people want, and is responding […]
Twitter has told suitors it is seeking to conclude negotiations about selling itself by the time it reports third-quarter earnings on October 27th , according to Reuters. Twitter shares sank nine per cent after Google parent Alaphabet was reported by Recode to have ruled out a bid. Recode also says Apple is not in the […]
Bloomberg has snagged the @Brexit handle on Twitter to provide a new outlet for Brexit coverage, which includes scoops, breaking news, charts, videos and data visualisations. The account will work alongside Bloomberg’s daily Brexit Bulletin newsletter, which already reaches thousands of subscribers. @Brexit joins Bloomberg’s family of memorable Twitter handles including @business, @markets, @technology, @luxury […]
Social media giant Facebook has confessed that it has overestimated how much video people have watched through its service for the last two years. The error affected a Facebook metric called “average duration of video viewed”, which was supposed to tell publishers for how long, on average, people had watched a video. However, the metric […]
Twitter and Bloomberg Media have announced a partnership to stream Bloomberg Television’s live broadcast of the 2016 US Presidential and Vice Presidential debates on Twitter. The agreement is an expansion of the partnership Twitter and Bloomberg Media announced in July to stream select Bloomberg Television programmes. Twitter will stream Bloomberg Television’s live broadcast of the […]
Twitter is making it easier to watch video from its live streaming partners with new apps for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Microsoft’s Xbox One. The company is launching the apps in time for the first National Football League games that Twitter is streaming. Twitter has struck similar deals to stream other sports, entertainment […]
The UK will remain a market leader in programmatic digital display ad spending, and this year eMarketer expects advertisers to spend £2.67 billion (€3.13bn) on programmatic trading, up 44 per cent from last year. And further growth is anticipated: This year, programmatically traded ads will account for 70 per cent of all UK digital display […]
BBC Sport’s coverage of the Olympics Games in Rio reached 102.3 million unique global browsers, with 68.3 million coming from the UK, the biggest ever success for BBC Sport’s digital service. Across the BBC Sport website, app, Red Button+ on connected TVs, BBC Sport 360 and BBC iPlayer, record numbers engaged with the BBC’s coverage […]
According to research from The Diffusion Group (TDG), the amount of time consumers spend each week using a ‘screen’ — a television, personal computer, tablet, or mobile phone — now tops 50 hours. Importantly,
Israel-based Spacecom says its upcoming AMOS-6 satellite is scheduled for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on September 3rd. Facebook is a major client for the satellite with capacity booked through Eutelsat of Paris, and worth (to Eutelsat) some $95 million (€83.9m) in total contract value. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced the scheme in […]