Facebook has come under fresh criticism over people’s privacy, after a BBC report looks into claims that the social network considered profiling user personalities in order to better target adverts.
April Fool’s Day has become a major event in the digital calendar, with many brands and media owners creating elaborate pranks to show off their funny side (and get plenty of social media shares and column inches in the process). We’ve put together some of the best hoaxes from 2018’s pranksters for your viewing pleasure…
Jordan Peele, winner of Best Original Screenplay for Get Out, was the most Tweeted about celebrity by UK Twitter users during this year’s Oscars, according to new data.
Facebook has introduced a new unit of time to make it easier for developers to sync up video and audio frames, in what could be a breakthrough for VR.
Online Publishers and Encyclopedia sites were among the biggest gainers in Google search visibility in 2017, while three social media sites – reddit.com, tumblr.com and pinterest.com – experienced the biggest losses according to a new study.
YouTube has released its Rewind video to mark the end of this year, putting together this year’s most popular videos and memes into one seven-minute video.
Donald Trump, the outspoken President of the United States is the most searched term by Yahoo users in the UK this year. Yahoo’s Year in Review reveals the biggest news stories, social trends and searches of 2017, taken from the billions of searches made on Yahoo Search over the course of the past year.
YouTube has attracted more controversy over brand safety, after a new report revealed that top brands were unknowingly running ads on videos containing content that was inadvertently appealing to paedophiles.
Burberry retains it’s position as most popular British brand on Instagram, but British brands have a long way to go: Nike, the world’s most popular brand on Instagram, has over 7 times as many followers, according to a new study.
Generation Alpha is embracing an entirely new way of consuming content and posing a challenge for licensees when it comes to predicting the next big franchise. Gurdev Mattu, Managing Director, Fashion UK, discusses how organisations can proactively tackle the demands of this market and embrace the opportunities it brings.