Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, has said he expects the Facebook Watch service to become “more mainstream” this year. The social network’s ad-funded VoD service has so far failed to set the market alight and present any real competition to the likes of YouTube, but Zuckerberg believes this is set to change. Speaking during […]
The average time children spend online has increased to three hours per day with a rise in the proportion accessing the Internet out and about, according to the latest 2019 CHILDWISE Monitor Report. The findings diverge to some extent from those released by media regulator Ofcom on January 29th, which suggest that UK children’s online […]
Facebook plans to integrate its messaging services — WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger. The move, reported in the NYT, will require Facebook to reconfigure how WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger function at their most basic levels. While all three services will continue operating as stand-alone apps, their underlying messaging infrastructure will be unified, the paper […]
There’s been massive coverage of Netflix these past few days, with analysts agonising what impact a price hike might have on its revenues and profits and how quickly the price rises might spread to their International markets. That’s understandable, but a very timely report from the media team at investment bank Berenberg suggests that it […]
According to cloud-based video production, editing and distribution platform Grabyo, DAZN, the online sports streaming service owned by DAZN Group, has enjoyed an impressive 2018 leveraging the power of social video to bolster its brand awareness and drive subscription growth using Grabyo’s platform to deploy a targeted video distribution strategy across its social channels on […]
London-based sports production specialists Input Media captured and delivered complete coverage of The Emirates FA Cup third round for the first time, with all 32 matches made available as world feeds for The FA’s international rights-holders and a new digital clips service racking up 46 million views on social media. One digital clip was viewed […]
The National Basketball Association (NBA), Turner Sports and Twitter have agreed a live streaming deal that will provide fans in the US with a complementary experience on Twitter (via @NBAonTNT) for 20 NBA on TNT games this season. During the second halves of those games, fans can watch the action through a single-player, isolated camera […]
Over 65s are almost four times more likely to have shared ‘fake news’ on Facebook than younger generations, according to research published in the journal Science. On average, Facebook users in the US over 65 shared nearly seven times as many articles from fake news domains as those aged between 18 and 29, researchers from […]
Ahead of Australian Open 2019, Graybo has partnered with Tennis Australia to enhance its international video content strategy and expand Tennis Australia’s reach across the globe. Grabyo’s cloud-based video platform will enable Tennis Australia’s digital and social teams to create, edit and distribute real-time video clips and live streams to multiple social and digital platforms […]
Fidji Simo, Head of Video at Facebook, has revealed that three months since its global launch, there are already more than 400 million people monthly and 75 million people daily who spend at least one minute on Facebook Watch. In a Blog Post looking back on 2018 and looking ahead to 2019, Simo described 2018 […]