The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the number one sports’ governing body for video views on Facebook, with more views on the platform than any other leading sporting organisations in 2020. According to the ICC, the results, from Facebook-owned CrowdTangle; an analytics tool, are another clear indication of the power of cricket to connect and […]
Digi-Capital’s virtual and augmented reality forecast is for global revenue to grow from over $13 billion this year to more than $67 billion by 2024. Yet today’s market is still evolving beyond its early stage of offering related point solutions to specific problems, to becoming a fully functioning ecosystem in its own right. Different parts […]
July 22nd saw Eutelsat announce that French telco Orange had taken all of the available capacity targeting France on Eutelsat’s current ‘Konnect’ satellite. Sami Kassab, an equity analyst at investment bank Exane/BNPP, says that while neither party disclosed the size or value of the contract the deal was likely to involve 5-10Gb/s of High Throughput […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom is seeking evidence relating to new regulatory requirements that will apply to video-sharing platforms (VSPs), online video service where users can upload and share videos. Earlier in 2020, the UK Government confirmed the appointment of Ofcom as the regulator for VSPs established in the UK, under revisions to the EU-wide Audiovisual […]
Reliance Jio has been a huge success in India’s cellular market, and is forecast to pass 500 million subscribers during 2023. Now Qualcomm is climbing aboard the company with a $98 million (€86.4m) investment and part of a major cash-raising exercise that Jio has undertaken over the last 12 weeks that now tops $15.7 billion […]
Carolyn McCall, chief executive of UK commercial public service broadcaster (PSB) ITV, says the nation’s PSBs (BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5) urgently need a modern framework that recognises a seismic shift in broadcasting. Writing a comment piece in the Daily Telegraph, McCall notes that the UK public service broadcasters have stepped up to […]
At a recent summit chaired by the BBC’s Director-General, Tony Hall, the TNI agreed to a shared early warning system of rapid alerts to combat the spread of disinformation during the US presidential election. The TNI is an industry collaboration of major news and global tech organisations working together to stop the spread of disinformation […]
Video-sharing social media app TikTok has ceased operations in Hong Kong, according to a notice posted on its website. The company flagged the move earlier this week after China imposed a new security law on the city. The law has restricted freedoms in the semi-autonomous territory, raising concerns of official oversight of social media. Other […]
The recent ban on Chinese social media platform TikTok in Indi has sent shockwaves across the country’s TikTok community. The platform, which leverages viral, user-generated content, has more than 120 million users as recorded in June 2020, reports Bisbo India – a YouTube channel to dedicated to animated news videos. TikTok has emerged as a […]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is calling on the government to introduce a new pro-competition regulatory regime to tackle Google and Facebook’s market power. The dynamic nature of digital advertising markets and the types of concerns identified by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in its market study are such that existing laws […]