Facebook lurks, but Pinterest looks unique – and increasingly powerful
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but for a maturing social network, it also amounts to something like a declaration of war. So when Facebook admits to trialling a new content curation feature called Sets, based around shareable, themed collections, Pinterest presumably gets two…
Streaming data arrives as video platforms prepare to lure brands
Online giants, we all know by now, would like to eat the TV business, and they’re not messing around. Working in feverish synchronisation, every big digital beast worth the name is constructing its own big-budget video content strategy. Apple is the latest to remind us…
How online TV will smash the ceiling for web advertising
If you were worried there wasn’t enough money in football, or that the competition for the Premier League’s broadcast rights wasn’t quite fierce enough with only Sky and BT slugging it out, let’s digest reports that Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google are all considering stooping…
