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Report: Busiest websites of 2020

A report by Fasthosts reveals the busiest websites in 2020; from search engines to social media platforms, news sites to entertainment and everything in between. Unsurprisingly, Google is crowned the world’s busiest website in 2020. In just one hour, Google receives 127,983,631 visits; that’s the equivalent of the population of London 14.2 times over. Social […]

February 9, 2021

F1 maintains strong audience position

Formula 1 has released its annual audience figures, which show viewership trends comparing well to other sports that were affected by shutdowns caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the fact that the revised 2020 season had four fewer races than 2019, Formula 1 maintained a strong audience position with an average audience per Grand Prix […]

February 8, 2021By Colin Mann

Glastonbury cancelled again

The Glastonbury music festival has been cancelled for a second year running due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The expected news was confirmed on the Worthy Farm event’s Twitter page. “With great regret, we must announce that this year’s Glastonbury Festival will not take place,” the tweet read. “And that this will be […]

January 21, 2021By Nik Roseveare

2020 SLAMMY Awards live on WWE Network, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter

The WWE Universe has voted, and the time has come to see which Superstars will take home the gold during the 2020 SLAMMY Awards: The Best of Raw and SmackDown streaming live on WWE Network as well as WWE.com, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter on December 23rd at 10 am ET. As previously announced, 24/7 Champion […]

December 22, 2020

Kinetiq launches new video monitoring solution

Kinetiq, a TV intelligence platform, has announced the launch of a new video monitoring solution to monitor where, when and how video content is displayed across digital platforms. Leveraging Kinetiq’s Teletrax watermarking and fingerprinting technology, the new capability now enables content producers to monitor and measure video content across digital platforms, in addition tobroadcast, in […]

December 4, 2020

UEFA Euro play-offs draw big for Sky Sports

Scotland and Northern Ireland’s dramatic UEFA Euro 2021 Play-off Finals provided Sky Sports with large audience shares on November 12th. This comes after Sky made the decision to offer both broadcasts for fans to enjoy free-to-air in recognition of the unique circumstances and the impact the pandemic is having on supporters in the UK. Scotland’s clash […]

November 18, 2020

Extreme E appoints Telescope as engagement partner

Extreme E, the new electric off-road racing series, has appointed Telescope as its Official Audience Engagement Technology Partner, to support its fan engagement initiative – GridPlay. The partnership will see Telescope delivering unique voting solutions across the Extreme E website, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, with similar plans to expand into streaming platform Twitch. Extreme E […]

November 18, 2020

MediaMath and Spaceback expand partnership

MediaMath, the independent advertising technology company for brands and agencies, has announced full support for Twitter Social Display Ads through its partnership with Spaceback, a global player in Social Display, building upon the MediaMath Spaceback partnership announced earlier this month. Twitter remains one of the most valuable channels for brands and influencers to reach consumers. […]

November 12, 2020

Musk ready to start Starlink services

Elon Musk, in a tweet after the latest Starlink launch, said that once this batch of 60 satellites are in their correct orbital positions then a test broadband service will start. “We will be able to roll out a fairly wide public beta [service] in northern US & hopefully southern Canada,” Musk said. “Other countries […]

October 8, 2020By Chris Forrester

NBC Olympics, Twitter extend content partnership

NBC Olympics and Twitter have extended the content partnership both parties announced in 2019 to include the postponed Tokyo Olympics set for the summer of 2021 and the Beijing Olympic Winter Games in February 2022. Most elements of the extension mirror the original agreement, which was announced solely for Tokyo 2020 in July 2019. Now, both […]

October 8, 2020