Cynopsis Digital Exclusive: ListenFirst Media has announced that its syndicated measurement products for TV, including ListenFirst Digital Audience Ratings, now include Twitter. ListenFirst, which tracks media consumption trends on social platforms, already included Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Tumblr, Wikipedia and Google+ in its metrics. The inclusion of Twitter marks the end of a multi-year exclusive arrangement […]
No one likes paying taxes – especially when your tax bill rivals the GDP of several small countries. Back in August, the European Commission ruled that Ireland’s tax arrangements with Apple were illegal under EU rules, ordering the tech giant to pay back $14 billion in uncollected taxes. Now, as first reported by Reuters, Apple […]
Looks like Vine isn’t entirely dead. Yes, Twitter’s six-second video service, as we know it, is still going to be shuttered soon. But according to a new blog post, the Vine app itself will live on with many of the same features. As part of a January update, the app will be renamed ‘Vine […]
Speaking of Comcast, the company is boosting its efforts to compete with in the digital movie-sales space. The cable giant has begun offering enhanced film extras via its X1 service. The offerings come as a result of new deals with Universal, Paramount, Sony, Lionsgate, and Comcast subsidiary NBCUniversal. (Disney, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros. […]
Samsung was the first company to offer a sophisticated mobile-based VR headset to consumers. But with companies like Google making big moves in the space, adaptation and innovation will be key. So this comes as no surprise: Samsung is preparing to launch an updated version of the Gear VR headset, according to Electronics VP Sung-Hoon […]
This again? Back in September, Yahoo confirmed a 2014 data breach in which “state-sponsored” hackers stole information on around half a billion user accounts. Now the company has confirmed another, earlier hack, and this one was twice as big. Yahoo now says that an unknown party stole info on over a billion user accounts back […]
Facebook came under a torrent of criticism for the proliferation of false news stories on its platform during this year’s presidential election; now the company says it’s doing something about it. Most notably, Facebook will begin sending stories to third party fact-checkers. “If the fact checking organizations identify a story as fake, it will get […]
Is Vice Media going public? In an interview at Variety’s Dealmakers breakfast, CEO Shane Smith suggested that it might well be. “We’re talking to some banks and we’re getting ready,” he said. He even said that Vice’s execs will present the case for an IPO at a company board meeting next month. “Next year is […]
For the first time, Facebook plans to fund and launch exclusive entertainment content. (The social giant’s presence in the media ecosystem has become so hegemonic that it’s almost hard to believe the company hasn’t done this already.) Facebook says its new efforts will include both scripted and unscripted programming, both from specific digital media stars […]
The U.K.’s BBC Worldwide and ITV are about to make it much easier for U.S. audiences to access British programming. The broadcasters are set to launch BritBox, a new ad-free SVOD service for U.S. subscribers. It’ll debut in Q1 of 2017. AMC Networks will take a minority stake in the service.
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