Having just sat through a Facebook Live account rep’s pitch yesterday at the office, this reax piece about online video analytics hit close to home. (If you haven’t watched the video… don’t bother, but it’s featured below for reference.) From Kevin Draper’s post on Gawker earlier this week… If BuzzFeed’s watermelon video had been measured… Read More »
Something something fourth estate gatekeepers of trust, something something absolute power corrupts absolutely, something something “Let’s all quit using Facebook” again. According to interviews published by Gizmodo’s Michael Nunez: Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked… Read More »
Great series starting up in Recode from Tony Haile, founder and CEO of Chartbeat and an adjunct professor of media and technology at Columbia and Stanford Universities. Digital media companies do five things. They create, host, curate, distribute and monetize content. Facebook now does four of them. Normally this should not concern media companies more… Read More »
The internet’s rapid removal of journalism content creators’ role as gatekeepers highlighted again here. From the article: Online publishers have faced numerous financial challenges in recent years, including automated advertising and ad-blocking tools. But now, there is a realization that something more profound has happened: The transition from an Internet of websites to an Internet… Read More »
More news on the artificial intelligence “AI backbone” helping engineers at Facebook. From the Tech Insider summary: Filtering the News Feed: There are potentially thousands of stories that could be shown to you in the News Feed at a given moment, and the company uses AI to learn from what you like and show you… Read More »
From the video description: Facebook just announced 8 billion video views per day. This number is made out of lies, cheating and worst of all: theft. All of this is wildly known but the media giant Facebook is pretending everything is fine, while damaging independent creators in the process. How does this work? Hank Greens… Read More »
From a post by Statista’s Felix Richter, this chart shows Facebook’s revenue growth since the first quarter of 2012. Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/2496/facebook-revenue-by-segment/
Facebook Instant Articles, a feature presenting the full content of news stories for mobile users, launched officially on May 12, 2015. Launch partners included Woven Digital, BuzzFeed, the New York Times, National Geographic, The Atlantic’, NBC News, The Guardian, BBC News, Bild, and Spiegel Online. In late March 2016, Facebook announced that native ads and… Read More »
Here’s a breakdown of how eMarketer predicts market share will change for different U.S. demographics for the top social nets over 2015 and 2016. [Update: The number of total social network users in 2015 below should be 179.7 million including users under the age of 18. All other total figures include this demographic.] Source: http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/new-social-stratosphere-who-using-facebook-twitter-pinterest-tumblr-and-instagram-2015-and-beyond-1622