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Why Facebook Is Getting Serious About Native Video Content Creators

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

3 Feb 2017

On Wednesday’s fourth quarter earning’s call , Facebook’s CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg made a point of emphasizing the centrality of video to the future growth of the company and specifically...

Why Only Now Are eSports Taking Off?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

18 Nov 2016

esports

facebook

Innovation

Although organised competitions featuring video gamers have existed since the medium’s rise throughout the 70s, it is only recently that the concept of lucrative E-Sports Leagues has become a mainstream...

What The Death Of Vine Means For Super Short Form Video

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

28 Oct 2016

instagram

Online video

supershort form video

Yesterday’s announcement of the death of Vine is a stark reminder of just how fickle the video app landscape is and underlines just how important vision is in acquisition strategy for tech companies....

Has Snapchat Learned From Twitter’s IPO?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

14 Oct 2016

Amazon

augmented reality

echo

Snap Inc, the parent company of messaging app Snapchat, have hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley for a seemingly imminent IPO. In addition to being one of the first app generation unicorns (alongside...

Is Social Inherently The Future Of Sports Video Coverage?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

19 Sep 2016

mobile

Mobile content

NFL

Sports history was made last week in the Ralph Wilson Stadium in New York where the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets clashed in the NFL’s Thursday Night Football fixture and it was streamed live on...

Quick Take: Why Twitter Is Moving Into The Increasingly Congested VR Space

Blog post by Zach Fuller

29 Jun 2016

augmented reality

Innovation

journalism

Twitter have hired former Apple designer Alessandro Sabatelli to oversee the company’s Virtual and Augmented Reality teams, a position Sabatelli claims is to ‘empower us all in the spatial computing...

Why Twitter Really Made The Changes Around Its Character Limit

Blog post by Karol Severin

27 May 2016

140 characters limit

content distribution

Mobile content

Twitter announced a number of changes this week, which are geared to extend the expression capabilities of the strict 140-character limit. The platform will no longer count media attachments nor ‘@names’...

Why YouTube Is Getting Into Live Streaming

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

24 Mar 2016

Facebook Live

Meerkat

Periscope

Yesterday the news broke on VentureBeat that YouTube has been secretly building a new app for live streaming video. This places the world’s largest video platform into direct competition with Facebook...

Snapchat Video Comes Into Its Own

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

18 Feb 2016

Grammys

instagram

Mobile content

So something remarkable happened at this year’s Grammys awards. Not the who, where orwhat about the winners of the world’s most prestigious music awards ceremony. Something far more profound for the...

Periscope’s About To Change Twitter Forever

Blog post by Karol Severin

15 Jan 2016

live broadcast

Mobile content

mobile content strategy

Periscope now plays live streams directly in Twitter feeds on iPhones, with Android and desktop functionality to come. It is a move that will change the way Twitter works and its audience uses it. Though...

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