TikTok, the ByteDance-owned video sharing platform, is increasingly seen as able to drive full-funnel outcomes – from discovery through search to purchase. However, WARC Media reports that concern over TikTok’s possible ban in the US is creating uncertainty among advertisers and creators. Alex Brownsell, Head of Content, WARC Media, and author of the report, says: […]

Satellite operator SES will this year celebrate its 40th Anniversary. CEO Adel Al-Saleh has been doing the rounds with local Luxembourg press and TV to update citizens of progress at the company, and to allay fears that a recent round of 68 redundancies at its Betzdorf headquarters will be followed by more. Al-Saleh told RTL […]

South Africa has suspended talks over licensing SpaceX’s Starlink service in the country because of tensions with the Donald Trump administration in the US. A Bloomberg report says that “negotiators plan to wait until the dispute between the US and South Africa calm down, with the intention to return to a possible deal at a […]

Disney has scrapped diversity and inclusion as a metric in setting executive pay. The company told staff  it was updating “how our values are embedded in our leader compensation programmes”. A new metric of ‘talent strategy’, was added to its executive pay scheme, though it said “important concepts” from the old plan would remain in […]

An estimated 24.6 million Americans tuned in on January 20th to watch the inauguration of Donald Trump as 47th president of the US, according to Nielsen. Viewership peaked with 34.4 million viewers during the 12:15pm ET quarter-hour. While coverage varied by network, 15 networks aired coverage of the 60th Inauguration Day events from approximately 10:30am […]

TikTok quickly resumed services in the US after incoming President Donald Trump said he would issue an executive order to give the social media app a reprieve when he takes office today [January 20th]. On January 18th, the Chinese-owned app stopped working for  its estimated 170 million American users, after a law banning it on […]

A New York State appeals court has rejected a request by Fox Corporation to dismiss part of a $2.7 billion (€2.63bn) defamation lawsuit stemming from the broadcasting of misinformation around the 2020 presidential election. Now the suit, filed by Smartmatic, the voting technology company, is on track to proceed to trial in state court in […]

This past weekend it was widely reported that the Italian government had chosen Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband service in a massive $1.6 billion (€1.4bn) 5-year deal to equip its military with secure connectivity. The news emerged as Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni visited President-elect Donald Trump at his Florida home on January 4th. The […]

A US court has rejected the Biden administration’s bid to restore net neutrality rules that would have prevented operators from prioritising traffic carried over their networks. On January 2nd, the court ruled that the federal government does not have the authority to regulate internet providers like utilities. The rules were first introduced in 2015 by […]