Facebook glasses: Zuckerberg is undeterred by his competitors failings
Facebook on your face This week Facebook unveiled for the first time the $299 "smart glasses" that it has been developing with Ray-Ban, the famed sunglasses brand. The glasses, which have been called...
TikTok: Users are now spending more time on TikTok than YouTube
TikTok users are now spending more time watching content than YouTube users are, according to a new report from App Annie . According to the data the average American (Android) user is watching almost...
Snapchat: The ephemeral photo messaging app has made a comeback
TikTok might be the hottest social media company around right now, dominating the lists of the most downloaded apps, but its older cousin Snapchat is quietly making headway as well — announcing recent...
Newspapers: They're having a hard time, and it's only going to get harder
Both Facebook and Google reported huge earnings this week, as the digital ad market continues to boom. David vs. Goliaths As the tech giants scoop up an increasingly large share of the ad market, tr...
YouTube vs. Netflix: Similar headline results, very different ways of getting them
YouTube and Netflix are quite similar in many ways. Both provide video content. Both have become global giants in the last 20 years. Both made about $7bn in revenue last quarter. Both have nice red lo...
Netflix and... game? Netflix is making its move into gaming
Netflix and... game? Earlier this year rumors swirled around tech and media communities that Netflix might be about to make a big investment into getting into the gaming industry. This week those rum...
TikTok vs. Facebook: TikTok's parent company ByteDance is growing fast — even faster than Facebook ever did
We don't usually get much of a look inside ByteDance — the private parent company of red-hot social media app TikTok. However, this week ByteDance revealed that its revenue last year had leapt up to m...
Netflix & Disney: The 2 giants of entertainment are borrowing strategies from each other in the battle for attention
In a year without COVID restrictions or closures, such as 2019, Disney's Parks Experiences & Products division on its own brings in more than $26bn in revenue — which is more than Netflix has ever reg...
Netflix & Disney: The 2 giants of entertainment are borrowing strategies from each other in the battle for attention
Disney wants to be more like Netflix... For the last 3 or 4 years the biggest story in the world of entertainment has been streaming. The old guard of media stood and watched as Netflix's market cap ...
What are you worth to Facebook? We explore, with FB's latest data
This week pretty much every major tech company released their earnings results. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook... all of them reported decent (or great) numbers and if we charted them all,...
Facebook's fake accounts: How many fake accounts does Facebook delete? We explore
Facebook has announced that in the last 3 months of 2020 they removed approximately 1.3 billion fake accounts from their platform. That means that Facebook has now deleted almost 16 billion accounts s...
A year in tweets: We look back on the last year with data from Twitter
Yesterday, March 11th, marked exactly one year since the World Health Organization declared the COVID outbreak a "global pandemic". That same day Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced they'd been diagno...
Disney vs. Netflix: Disney just hit a major streaming milestone
Disney+ has hit 100 million paid subscribers , just 16 months since its launch. That puts Disney roughly halfway to catching up to Netflix's subscriber base, which is currently sitting at a lofty 204 ...
Easy come, easy go: When was each social media platform generating its peak search interest on Google?
Remember Myspace? What about Friendster or Bebo? In the short history of the internet, there have been many social media platforms that have shot to fame before fading to black. We've charted the Goog...
Print to digital: 2020 was an accelerant for print media to go digital, and the NYTimes made the most of it
2020 was a bad year for many news organisations — particularly local print newspapers that had to contest with all the restrictions of COVID, on top of the existential threat of social media, where mo...
Advertising spend: Traditional media formats had a tough 2020, and advertisers probably aren't coming back
As well as creating entire industries almost overnight, the impact of the pandemic was arguably more of an accelerant than anything else. For the media industry that meant a really tough year for trad...
Adobe and Canva would be the secret winners of a TikTok ban
One of the biggest stories in tech is President Biden's TikTok ban. In April, Biden signed a law that would ban TikTok unless it's sold to non-Chinese ownership in the next year. However, TikTok's par...
Twitch may be turning into a “zombie brand”
Ten years after its $1 billion purchase of game streaming platform Twitch, is still looking for a return on its investment. The Wall Street Journal has seen some internal figures for the business uni...
Mark Zuckerberg’s new fashion sense has become Meta’s investment strategy
One of the more interesting stories in tech has been Mark Zuckerberg’s wardrobe overhaul that transformed the dorky Silicon Valley CEO into a gold chain-wearing symbol of streetwear and shearling jack...
Reddit pivots to video
is now doing what a lot of other publishing websites did unsuccessfully about a decade ago: pivot to video . The social media platform has partnered with the NFL, NBA, MLB, PGA Tour, and NASCAR to bri...