Topical debate programme Question Time (1), political interview programme The Andrew Marr Show (2) and iconic drama Doctor Who (3) are the most tweeted about BBC TV shows of 2018, TV Licensing – the body responsible for collection of the Corporation’s licence fee has revealed. In a year of unmissable television moments, BBC news and current affairs […]
New data published by connected intelligence specialist Kantar Media shows that reality television has driven the highest level of social media engagement over the course of the past year, closely followed by current affairs programmes. Kantar Media measured engagement amongst UK viewers between December 1st 2017 and November 30th 2018. The insight is taken from […]
Social media sites have surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans: One-in-five US adults say they often get news via social media, slightly higher than the share who often do so from print newspapers (16 per cent) for the first time since Pew Research Center began asking these questions. In 2017, the portion […]
Streaming TV real-time measurement and intelligence platform Conviva has acquired cross-platform social video analytics solution provider Delmondo, enabling it to offer the first solution that unifies real-time census-level streaming TV intelligence from apps and the web with content and audience intelligence from social media platforms. With the launch of Conviva Social Insights, streaming TV publishers […]
Eleven Sports has unveiled Watch Together – a new feature that enables fans to watch live action together with friends and family in the same online space at the same time. Eleven Sports plans to roll out Watch Together in its international OTT markets, with a trial period expected to launch in the coming weeks. […]
Snap, makers of Snapchat, the popular social sharing app, has announced the launch of a newly localised Discover, tailor-made for the growing community of Indian Snapchatters, through partnerships with nearly a dozen media brands, all premiering within the app over the next several weeks. This is the first time Snapchat has offered local publisher content in […]
The six French PSB groups – France Télévisions, Radio France, France Medias Monde, TV5Monde, Arte and INA – have partnered to deliver a cultural social network called Culture Prime. The 100 per cent digital offering will offer around 15 to 25 original short form videos each week produced by each of the partners in association […]
For the first time in Portugal, Eleven Sports will show Bundesliga football live on Facebook as part of an innovative strategy reach fans across the nation. On November 24th, Bayern München will take on Fortuna Düsseldorf, and all Facebook users in the country can watch the game for free via the Eleven Sports page. Jorge […]
Facebook has appealed against a fine imposed on it by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data watchdog, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The social media giant believes that because the regulator found no evidence that UK users’ personal data had been shared inappropriately, the £500,000 penalty was too harsh and ultimately unjustified. Last […]
A bid by Facebook for the rights to the English Premier League is “not on the cards” according to the social media giant’s director of media partnerships, EMEA, Patrick Walker. Addressing a meeting of the Broadcasting Press Guild in London, Walker said that Watch, the company’s digital video platform, was built around three main pillars: […]