The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is getting ready to launch as many as a dozen TV-like channels with scheduled content to lure viewers away from their TV screens. It is said to have been shopping the ideas around US media firms for several months.
It is said to have cut a range of content deals and is paying “from a few hundred thousand dollars to several million to content creators to create and curate videos for a channel”. Read More
London might have been the first Twitter office outside of the US and where it has staffed up recently, but Twitter’s international headquarters are to be located in Dublin.
The news came via a tweet (naturally) from Ireland’s Industrial Development Authority as the Irish capital adds to the growing band of digital and media companies that have their headquarters in Ireland because of tax reasons. Read More
The UK is at the top of this infographic at least in terms of internet use per head of population with 82.5% online compared to the US with 77.3%, Japan with 78.4%, Germany with 79.1% and France with just 68.9%. Clearly in France there is too much else going on to try too hard.
The US and UK have similar usages numbers for Facebook and Twitter (about 70% and 13% respectively). The US, Italy and the UK are the biggest users of Facebook while Twitter is much bigger in Brazil where 31% use it and Japan where 24% use it. Read More
There are other networks as we all know, but the difference them and Facebook as this comScore chart underscores is huge under scored by the ocean of activity, news stories and blog posts that poured out last week as it launched its new Facebook Timeline at f8.
When you use Twitter it feels like everyone is on it, but then you look at this and the story is very different. As much as 90% of all time spent on social networks is spent on Facebook with the rest filling in what’s left. Read More
Last year Techcrunch founder Michael Arrington sold his tech news business to AOL for around $30m, according to reports. Things went a bit rocky and very early on people were wondering how long he would last at AOL as he threw public punches at the media firm while ostensibly employed by it.
The answer was not much longer as Arrington. Earlier this month AOL parted company as this story details: Barry Diller Skewers AOL For Firing Michael Arrington. That was a Techcrunch story, by the way. It was reported everywhere including the New York Times. Read More
After a few months of testing Google is getting ready to roll out business user accounts, which have to date only been available to a couple of test accounts, namely Ford and General Motors, as reports suggest it is nearing 50 million accounts.
Last week Google opened Google+ to everyone. Users had previously needed invites to join Google+, but in an effort to speed its growth Google threw open the doors to the beta testing of its social network. Read More
Social media data company Simply Measured has produced this infographic to show the level of chat/interest or noise relating to last night’s Facebook f8 announcement.
I’ve not seen any sentiment analysis yet, but looking at blogs and Twitter it seems pretty split to me. A lot of people are liking f8, are excited about the changes, while there are others who hate it.
Facebook has ruled supreme since its launch, however its lack of forward planing and direction may make it vulnerable to turning into yesterday’s news, says Hari Shankar, Asia-Pacific director at Performics.
It is thus far an unbeaten platform, with a raft of new changes announced last night, that has earned the mantle for bringing together communities and people from far and wide in to a ‘glocal’ landscape. Read More
It’s commonly known that brands pay celebrities to tweet about their products, paying thousands for them to mention their products to millions of avid followers.
But what if this concept was turned on its head, with the people who read those tweets having a say in how the money is spent? If followers were able to persuade 50 Cent, Mariah Carey and Paris Hilton to use their wealth for social good? Read More
Sometimes you can send out what you think is the most awesome of tweets and then you wait and…nothing. Not a sausage of a retweet in sight. It is as if the world has looked away. Your followers are not interested or are busy elsewhere.
But as this infographic from Lemon.ly shows sometimes are better to tweet than others. For instance the majority of Twitter traffic takes place between nine in the morning and 11 am and then between 1300 and 1500 in the afternoon. That means more people are reading tweets then and are more engaged and correspondingly you have more chance of catching people’s attention. Read More
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