This week’s blog comes thanks to Brandwatch. Last year, we looked at the size of the online Covid conversation, along with articles covering the virus. It’s been a long time since we last looked, so we decided it was time to revisit. When we’re...
Last week saw the launch of the UK’s latest TV channel, GBNews, the brainchild of ex-News International executive Andrew Neil, funded for the most part by overseas entities. Our blog today is courtesy of Brian Jacobs, a man who knows more about media, advertising...
Last month, the UK Government published its much anticipated Online Safety Bill which aims to tackle ‘harmful’ content on social media and elsewhere online. Here Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana, IMPRESS’s Head of Regulation, reviews the impact of the Government’s draft bill...
Latest data from Insider Intelligence predicts that podcasting in the US will cross the $1 billion mark this year. Podcast ad spending is on track to exceed $2 billion by 2023 and growth estimates have been upped due to a 36.8% spike in spend during 2020, estimated...
This week’s blog is once againm shamelessly stealing from a recent Cog Blog all about how it’s rather fun to watch today’s experts repurpose, re-polish and resurrect ideas from the past – even those that failed the first time around. I worked with Brian Jacobs, who...
How big tech took over the news industry. Last week, Press Gazette conducted a mammoth piece of research to reveal the top 50 news media companies in the English-speaking world currently, ranked by turnover. This research revealed that compared with a decade ago there...
