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Hillary Clinton gave multiple shoutouts to fact checkers during the first presidential debate on Monday — but of course, directing viewers to her own site, which was churning out its own fact checks on Donald Trump’s statements throughout the night. Though TV networks (mostly) shied away from on-screen fact checking, other news organizations doubled down,…
Sept. 27, 2016 6:40 p.m. ET Speaking to advertising executives on Tuesday, Facebook Inc. FB 0.01 % executives downplayed controversy over the company’s miscalculation of a video metric and called for ad buyers to focus on metrics tied to business outcomes. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the social network had been overestimating…
Billed as the first match featuring English Premier League teams to be shown on the Facebook’s live video platform, Wayne Rooney’s testimonial match held special interest for media watchers. This was a match which was shown via Facebook Live to a potential audience of 1.7 billion, one which shows the intent of Facebook to develop the platform in…
The V-word was on everyone’s lips at our Monetising Media conference last week. Debates raged about production, distribution and of course, monetisation of video, but are the benefits of video really all they’re cracked up to be? The Media Briefing’s flagship State of the Media Industry Report 2017 (coming soon) highlights the importance of video…
Former adult film actress Mia Khalifa has jumped into the sports world recently, not only exposing Ole Miss QB Chad Kelly’s DMs to her but also starting a regular FanSided.com picks column last week. Khalifa’s forays into sports got even more prominent Thursday when “Burt Gertson,” a self-proclaimed “54-year sportswriting veteran” who’s cited as working…
Photo Donald J. Trump at the first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University on Monday. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times On Tuesday, Donald J. Trump boasted of what he described as widespread approval of his performance in the first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton. Such a great honor. Final debate polls are…
A reporter at the presidential debate has become the hero we all deserve by yelling, “Thanks a lot, bitch!” at another woman while chasing an interview. vine.co The priceless moment was captured by Dalton Bennett of the Washington Post. The reporter, Al Jazeera English’s Kimberly Halkett, was apparently trying to get an interview with Gov. Mike Pence when…
CBS Interactive, Condé Nast, ESPN, Hearst and News Corp to anchor the cooperative of more than 25 magazine, TV, newspaper and native digital brands New York, NY—(September 26, 2016)—Digital Content Next (DCN), the only trade association exclusively dedicated to trusted, high-quality digital content brands, today announced the creation of a cooperative digital advertising marketplace, TrustX, designed to…
Although The Washington Post partners with Facebook Instant Articles and Google AMP, which help speed mobile load times, it’s also striking out on its own.Over a two-month period, a team of Post engineers cobbled together a proprietary tech solution called Zeus that sped mobile page-load times by 75%. Viewability improved by 20% in current tests…