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Comedy Central poaches Gleam short-form expert
Pay TV channel Comedy Central UK is to push heavily into short-form video after hiring…
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Game of Thrones leads Walking Dead on Twitter
Game of Thrones (top) generated the most Tweets globally among 16 of the World’s most…
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‘Facebook and Twitter vie for live TV rights’
Facebook and Twitter are vying for rights to stream live television through their respective services,…
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Under the bonnet of the new Top Gear
Top Gear is the biggest factual TV show in the world, and one of the…
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Twitter to up video focus
Twitter has revealed that it has “a lot more coming on the mobile video front”…
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Walking Dead feasts on social media
The Walking Dead generated more Tweets and had a larger audience on Twitter than any…
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Twitter Amplified – a new distribution model
It is just over a year ago that Twitter launched its Amplify initiative for content…
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Nielsen adds demographics to Twitter coverage
Nielsen has launched a new service measuring Twitter TV demographics across 250 US channels. The…
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Italian channels spin Endemol DJ format
Italian pay TV channel Sky Uno and free-to-air counterpart Cielo have commissioned an eight-part DJ…
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Fox says Twitter can drive viewing and ad revenues
US broadcast network Fox has commissioned research that has found that Twitter is driving users…
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The case of Midsomer Murders’ social media push
Long-running detective series Midsomer Murders is a classic whodunit, a classic British export – even…
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Twitter flying in for MIPTV keynote
Twitter’s chief media scientist Deb Roy will give a keynote address at MIPTV in April….
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New Walking Dead beats Olympics with massive numbers
The return of The Walking Dead delivered almost 16 million viewers for cable net AMC,…
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Twitter says TV tweeters make better viewers
Twitter users recall TV advertisements at a far greater rate than non-users, according to an…
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Yahoo launching series based on spoof Queen Twitter feed
Yahoo UK is launching Yes Ma’am, a new short form animated series based on the…
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BBC signs international news partnership with Twitter
BBC Global News has agreed a new partnership with Twitter to post and promote videos…
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Twitter buys social TV analytics company Trendrr
Twitter has acquired social TV analytics firm Trendrr, in a deal that the latter said…
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Liberty Global launches Horizon TV in Ireland
Liberty Global has launched its next generation Horizon TV set-top service in Ireland, enabled by…
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Sharknado drops into Space in Canada
Buzzy TV movie Sharknado has followed up its success in the US by delivering 300,000…
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BBC America inks Twitter deal
BBC America has signed a deal with Twitter to offer branded videos on the site,…
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Rights.tv hires Jane Hyndman
Content rights specialists Rights.tv has hired Jane Hyndman. The former etv and Europe Movieco Partners…
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Nielsen partners with Twitter for TV ratings
Twitter and media measurement company Nielsen are creating a ratings system based on the amount…
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Dominic Monaghan goes where the Wild Things are
Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan sees the actor travelling, eating and playing his way to various corners of the planet…