Apple belatedly looks to refocus on podcasts
The podcasting industry was shaken up this week with the announcement that JRE is moving exclusively to Spotify and it looks like it has caught Apple’s attention.
The podcasting industry was shaken up this week with the announcement that JRE is moving exclusively to Spotify and it looks like it has caught Apple’s attention.
The streaming wars have opened a major new front with the news that Spotify has lured the Joe Rogan Experience away from YouTube and iTunes.
Alphabet-owned Google certainly felt the pinch of COVID-19 over the last few weeks of the quarter, but CEO Sundar Pichai identified diversification as key to managing the crisis.
Google-owned YouTube has altered its community guidelines to ensure all conspiracy theories which suggest 5G is the cause or an accelerator of COVID-19 are removed from the platform.
YouTube has confirmed it will reduce the exposure videos which promote 5G as some sort of cause or accelerator of the coronavirus, though its actions are somewhat limited.
With everyone stuck at home for the foreseeable future, telecoms capacity has become front page news.
When looking at the financial results of companies like Google, the question is not whether it has made money, but how much are the bank vaults overflowing.
Electoral losers are increasingly blaming social media for their failure, but this year will demonstrate that censorship is not the answer.
Social media giant Twitter is exploring the creation of an open standard that it hopes will provide the answer to the impossible question of censorship.
Google wants to make YouTube the default audio app on Android in the hope of boosting its chances of competing with Spotify.
The traditional telco business model is being commoditised, this is not new news, but with more telcos seeking to drive value through content, do they understand the nuances of consumer behaviour?
Another week has passed, and we have another story focusing on privacy violations at Google. This time it has cost the search giant $170 million, but is that anywhere near enough?
As video sharing service YouTube strives to censor ever more rigorously, can it still be considered a neutral platform?
Google tried to make the transition over to a subscription-led business and now it seems it has had enough, announcing all YouTube Original content will be free after September 24.
Half of UK homes now subscribe to TV Streaming services, reveals a new Ofcom report, as the country increasingly opts for video-on-demand.
In its desperation to placate corporate advertisers YouTube has antagonized many of its independent creators, but now they’re fighting back.
US President Trump has invited a number of social media commentators to a discussion about the current digital environment.
In her first public statements since last week’s censorship controversy YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki attempted to strike a balance between freedom of speech and censorship.
Having initially taken a position in favour of freedom of speech, YouTube has now lurched towards censorship following public pressure.
All the four incumbent telecom operators in China received commercial 5G licences, raising the curtain on the commercial rollout of the next generation mobile networks in the world’s biggest telecom market.
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Drones: out of sight, top of mind for telcos https://t.co/gw9QTBfvJS #Drone #drones
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Matrixx mixes it up in Mexico https://t.co/3mHdrJQ5hQ #BSSOSS
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