Channel 4 and Instagram have announced a real-time social reality series told through social media. You Do You will air exclusively on Instagram from November 14th. The four-part social series is set in the bustling UK city of Manchester and follows the lives of a group of young creatives, whose relatable stories are shared with […]
AccuWeather NOW, the video streaming product from AccuWeather, hasy announced it is joining STIRR’s roster of over 100 channels, meeting an increasing demand for streaming weather and climate news content. STIRR’s audience of over 7.3 million users can now access AccuWeather’s forecasts as well as 24/7, continuous daily programming, dedicated to all things weather. This […]
A report from analysts at MoffettNathanson (MN) questions to what extent Facebook has been hurt by recent service interruptions, a negative report in the Wall Street Journal, and highly critical congressional whistle-blower testimony from Frances Haugen. The consequences were something of a downhill slide for its share price (ranging down 12.34 per cent, or $46 […]
Broadband networks and all that comes with them – CDNs, nodes, edge servers etc – were expected to fall over in the pandemic. The forecast of friction points, and outright failure, as traffic caused by WFH and more time to use entertainment, was so solid that the big streamers voluntarily cut their data intensity, trading […]
Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised after its social media services – Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, went down for around six hours on October 4th – affecting users globally. An internal technical issue took the services offline at about 4pm BST and the scramble to bring it back online eventually succeeded at around 10pm. […]
Social media ad solutions and shopping experiences platform StitcherAds has revealed the results of a study on how social media advertising influences purchasing habits across generations, analysing 500 US-based respondents, ages 18 and over. Among the key findings:. Gen Z and Millennials Drive the Push for ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ on Social When asked if […]
WAVE.tv, the ports and entertainment company, is now available on Atmosphere, the streaming TV service for businesses, the companies announced today. Already a top sports partner to Snap, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, this deal significantly expands WAVE.tv’s distribution footprint to reach Atmosphere’s 25M monthly viewers. Atmosphere’s streaming platform, which is specifically designed for viewing […]
To measure people’s awareness of their phone use, gaming site Solitaired recently surveyed 667 iPhone users, asking them to guess how much time they spend on their phones, then had them send documentation of their actual usage data, courtesy of their iOS Screen Time dashboards. On average, respondents guessed they spend 25 hours and 54 […]
Findings from the Future of Audience and Revenue Study from AI-driven audience engagement and sales intelligence solutions provider Futuri, with SmithGeiger, reveal tectonic shifts in how Americans perceive, consume and pay for media content, as well as media executives’ predictions for the sector and confidence in their ability to meet emerging challenges. The study explored […]
After a year when marketing budgets have been significantly impacted by the global pandemic, mobile has proved to be one of the most resilient media. Marketers in APAC, are incorporating a mobile-first approach driven by increased opportunities to reach consumers by social and m-commerce, driving up digital advertising budgets in the region to $120 billion […]