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Are 'geeks' and 'nerds' now cool?
Campaigners in Sweden are trying to force a dictionary to change its definition of "nerd". But after two decades of "reappropriation" has "nerd" - and its sister word "geek" - now completely lost its...
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More women using social media
It goes without saying that social media’s march toward ubiquity continues to move forward.But a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project has some interesting factoids, highlighted by...
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TV could pull Europe out of slump
Europe is pinning its hopes on its high technology sector to pull out of recession, with TV and broadcasting companies among the strongest performers, compensating for weakness in traditional...
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The future of Public Service Media
Media and societies in Europe will face massive changes in the next decade. Under the heading Vision 2020 the EBU members will embark on an exciting strategic exercise to investigate how public service...
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Bendy phones expected in 2013
Rumours abound that next year will see the launch of the first bendy phone - but what is this technology of the future?See it on Scoop.it, via MEDIA NOW
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Mobile media key for future
Mobile devices are rapidly becoming the primary medium to access the Internet across age groups, and across mature and emerging markets. In the United Kingdom (UK), 2012 saw the world’s first truly...
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Tablet ownership to continue rising in Europe
A new studay says that more than 40% of the internet audience in Europe's largest markets will own a tablet in four years' time. The eMarketer report predicts that ownership will hit 19% among web...
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Multitasking impacts TV's dominance
TV gathers more total consumers than all other media, but audience fragmentation and multitasking make these results less clear. A new report claims that consumers’ attention is more divided than ever...
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The ups, downs and ups of BBC News online
It's 15 years since the BBC News website launched. At the time, in 1997, there were fewer than eight million people online in the UK.See it on Scoop.it, via MEDIA NOW
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14 tools for visual storytelling
A list of just 14 tools that journalists might find useful to tell stories in visual ways.See it on Scoop.it, via MEDIA NOW
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Social TV's top 10 moments in 2012
What began as a natural phenomenon — you see something on TV, you say something on Social Media — has the attention of every TV exec these days. That wasn’t quite as true a year ago. From record...
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European cord-cutting looms
IDATE has published a study on cord-cutting, based on a detailed analysis of the US market, the world’s most advanced, so that lessons can be drawn for Europe.Trend Scouts's insight:European pay-TV...
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Top 10 Facebook stories of 2012
A list of the most shared, commented and 'liked' news stories of 2012 published by UK news outlets BBC News, Mail Online, Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, the Sun, the Mirror.See it on Scoop.it, via...
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The human algorithm
The onslaught of real-time social, local, mobile (SoLoMo) technology is nothing short of overwhelming. Besides the gadgets, apps, social networks and appliances that continue to emerge, the pace of...
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Broadcasters to take control of OTT
Far from being the thing that destroys their revenue base, over-the-top services will actually benefit broadcasters who will likely come to dominate pure play rivals in 2013, asserts a research note...
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Facebook launches search tools
Facebook has announced "Graph Search," a way to search all of Facebook's content for queries tailored to your profile. CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained the search by saying, "Graph Search is meant to...
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Google and the future of search
Google has revolutionised the way we holiday, shop, work and play. Now, with Knowledge Graph, it plans to radically transform the way we search the internet… again. But some voice qualms about the...
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2013 likely to be a big year for 4K
Deloitte predicts that in 2013 the television industry will commence the roll-out of the next generation of high definition (HD) TV, known as 4K, which will offer four times higher resolution than the...
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Pandora in 2012
Figures released by Pandora show that in 2012 its users listened to more than a million different songs by over 100 thousand different artists. Ten per cent of these artists were streamed to more than...
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Record year for BBC iPlayer
Fittingly for an Olympic year, 2012 has seen the BBC iPlayer break records with 2.32 billion TV and radio programme requests and 36.5 billion minutes of content across all platforms.See it on Scoop.it,...
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