The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), host of the Wimbledon Championships, has announced it has seen great success from an innovative platform launched this year that streams live audio coverage to social media, registering over 750,00 views and generating direct engagement with just under 60,000 fans. The Wimbledon Radio Channel, the organisation’s live radio broadcast of […]
KFC partnered with Super Deluxe to run a four-hour live stream of cats exploring a model of the brand’s mascot and founder Colonel Sanders. The agency broadcast live footage of the felines exploring a six-foot effigy of the Colonel on Facebook Live. It’s believed around 1m viewers tuned into the spectacle, with 700,000 watching […]
Cadbury, in partnership with creative agency Ogilvy Melbourne, has launched a first of its kind social experience for Facebook Live, bringing the joy of a Cadbury Easter to all Australians. ‘The Cadbury Live Egg Hunt’, a live 360 Facebook video, was created with Alt.vfx, Sydney. Designed to let anyone experience the excitement of a […]
Facebook has signed an exclusive deal with ESL, the world’s largest eSports organisation, to bring streaming coverage of two of the top eSports competitions exclusively to Facebook this year. One of ESL’s flagship circuits, ESL One, will be broadcast on Facebook starting this week with the ESL One Genting 2018 event in Malaysia. A weekly […]
Usage of Facebook Live reached record levels on New Year’s Eve 2016, and New Year’s Eve 2017 provided yet more evidence of how mainstream live-streaming via social networks has become. Facebook product manager Erin Connolly and engineering manager Kunal Modi announced in a Facebook Media blog post that more than 10 million people live-streamed via Facebook Live Sunday, up 47 percent from the previous […]
Facebook has updated its tools and resources to offer support those who may be considering suicide, and their concerned friends and family, in its bid to help against the one death every 40 seconds by suicide worldwide. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in young people – who make up the largest proportion […]
McDonald’s is literally giving away its secret sauce, with the food giant poised to hand out 10,000 bottles of its world-famous Big Mac Special Sauce for the first time ever. Limited free bottles of the savoury condiment will be available in dozens of locations across the US. Customers can find out where there closest bottles […]
Facebook has confirmed that it is seeking to monetise live-streams with the addition of mid-roll ads to its growing Facebook Live service. The world’s largest social network confirmed the move in 2016, saying in an email: “We’re running a small test where a group of publishers have the option to insert a short ad break […]
With the decline in text and increase in sharing through pictures and video, Facebook’s EMEA vice president Nicola Mendelsohn said she would put money on Facebook becoming “all video over the next five years”. Speaking at the Fortune Most Powerful Women International Summit today Mendelsohn also noted the importance of virtual reality and the rise […]
Facebook is giving users the ability to upload videos into comments and replies on posts and status updates. The project was thought up during the company’s 50th Hackathon earlier this year, which brings staff together for a day to come up with new ideas. Users can now upload videos as replies to posts by people […]