by Jenny Crawford | May 5, 2021 | ARTICLE 17, NEWS & DATA, PLATFORMS, POLICY
Article 17 is the biggest change to copyright law since the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Because it brings such monumental changes to the Digital Single Market and has been heavily criticized, it’s important to understand what the article says, who it...
by Jenny Crawford | Aug 20, 2020 | DATA INSIGHTS, NEWS & DATA
Instagram may have started as a photo-sharing app, but with the addition of video in 2013, stories in 2016, IGTV in 2018, and most recently its new reels functionality, the platform has become a top competitor for video-centric apps. As Instagram continually develops...
by Jenny Crawford | Aug 12, 2020 | DATA INSIGHTS, NEWS & DATA
In 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s strategy was “to become video first”. Zuckerberg predicted then that in five years time, most of what people would consume online would be video. Nearly five years later, Facebook has taken its...
by Jenny Crawford | Jun 5, 2020 | DATA INSIGHTS, NEWS & DATA
Podcasting has exploded in recent years and while Covid-19 caused a blip, it doesn’t seem the medium will be otherwise slowing down. According to Edison Research, more than half the U.S. population has listened to a podcast and roughly 90 million people are...
by Jenny Crawford | Mar 31, 2020 | DATA INSIGHTS, NEWS & DATA
As the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus forces us indoors and online more than ever, platforms built for social, UGC, and streaming are reaching previously unknown potential. Worldwide streaming has increased 20 percent, and platforms like Netflix and YouTube are...
