Streaming platform Twitch has announced a partial gambling ban, targeting virtual slot machines, roulette and dice games. It will take effect from October 18th. The Amazon-owned platform will prohibit videos of gambling sites not licensed in the US or “other jurisdictions that provide sufficient consumer protection”. The ban includes cryptocurrency gambling sites such as Stake, […]
The landscape of social media is ever-changing, especially among teens who often are on the leading edge of this space. A new Pew Research Center survey of American teenagers ages 13 to 17 finds TikTok has rocketed in popularity since its North American debut several years ago and now is a top social media platform […]
Last quarter, growth on Twitch, YouTube Gaming and Facebook Gaming begin to slow down. That trend continued in the lastest quarter, with all three platforms seeing a decline in growth compared to the previous quarter, according to Streamlabs and Stream Hatchet’s Q2 2022 Live Streaming Report. Twitch continues to be the largest live streaming platform, […]
At the BAFTA Games Awards on April 7th, Returnal won Audio Achievement, Best Game and Music, and Performer in a Leading Role for Jane Perry, winning her first BAFTA. Two games won two BAFTAs each: It Takes Two won Multiplayer and Original Property, and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart won Animation and Technical Achievement. Kimberly […]
Eleven Taiwan has partnered with the streaming platform Twitch ahead of the new Taiwan baseball season, to make its live match coverage more accessible to fans. Eleven Taiwan holds the rights to all home matches for the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the Rakuten Monkeys, Wei Chuan Dragons and Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions. Games are […]
Results from the Kagan year-end 2021 Germany Consumer Insights survey show a substantial spike in online subscription video use last year, with overall SVoD use climbing 9 percentage points over 2020 to 81 per cent. Use of Amazon Prime Video, the most widely used SVoD service among respondents in Germany, reached 52 per cent at […]
Social video intelligence and measurement specialist Tubular Labs has launched its new Tubular Consumer Insights product, uniting social video and e-commerce, describing it as a first-of-its-kind solution, providing Amazon shopping behaviour data for all types of creators — including brands, publishers and influencers — across thousands of products and categories. Tubular Consumer Insights is powered […]
While Netflix remains the undisputed leading streaming platform, with a 21 per cent share of the US SVoD market in 2021, GlobalData believes that the service is showing signs of slowing. With more and more competitors arriving, the data and analytics company says streaming platforms will not only have to provide evocative content but will […]
Moonwalk, the NFT and Web3 Communities platform for brands and creators, has announced the official unveiling of the Moonwalk-branded NFT Utility Wallet, a no-code solution for brands, gaming companies and creators looking to create NFT communities and deploy NFT-powered unlocks and gamification. Available for desktop, mobile web, chrome extension and API deployment, Moonwalk’s unique NFT […]
BARB, the UK television audience measurement currency, has rolled out what it describes as a “once-in-a-generation upgrade” in its audience reporting with the introduction of SVoD and video-sharing platform measurement, as first reported last week. In a preview of the type of new data that is now available, BARB has revealed that the most-watched programmes […]