Online video advertising platform SpotX has partnered with Switch Media, a cloud based streaming company, to produce AdEase, a multi-screen digital product offering. The partnership allows broadcasters working with SpotX to take full advantage of Switch Media’s AdEase, improving the user experience and increasing engagement by providing one continuous video stream without any buffering during […]
Turner‘s long-in-the-making live sports service is almost here. The broadcaster has announced that its Bleacher Report Live service will debut April 7th in a free preview mode, with “flexible” pricing when you have to start paying in the summer. It’ll present live sports in a Facebook-style home feed, with personalization that aggregates content based on […]
Social media giant Twitter has announced nine new premium video sports content partnerships to enhance its offering in the Asia-Pacific region. Twitter has signed agreements with golf’s Asian Tour, pay-TV broadcaster Astro Malaysia, online soccer platform BallBall, global sports network Eleven Sports, cable network Fox Sports Asia, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), Indonesian broadcaster […]
It’s been more than a year since Amazon first tapped into Twitch’s customer base with perks to improve their experience. Now, the online giant has started offering free games from their archives for Prime customers to keep. Twitch announced that starting on March 15 those customers would get a pair of free games, Superhot and […]
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 […]
Live streaming has become the hottest new marketing trend among advertisers, used as a strategy to encourage real-time engagement with consumers. In the latest infographic from direct response agency Koeppel Direct, the statistics reveal how people are now viewing content and why there’s been such a significant shift to live streaming among industries. The infographic, […]
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 […]
The summer and winter games have long been one of the television advertising world’s signature events. In fact, advertisers are estimated to spend over $1 billion on official television spots during the broadcast of the Rio games on NBC in August, according to Variety. Though it’s unsurprising that advertisers flock to secure TV ad spots […]
Live streaming app Periscope has made moves to clamp down on the real time abuse which sometimes saturates broadcasts on the system. The app claims to have seen great growth in recent months but admitted that it was lacking in ways to combat spam and abuse. As a result, it has rolled out a tool […]
Live streaming app Periscope is following their rival Facebook, testing a feature to allow users to permanently save their broadcasts in a bid to attract more brands and advertisers. The news was announced on Periscope (of course) late on May 4. All a user needs to do is put “#Save” anywhere in their broadcast title. […]