Musk: Media publishers can start charging for one-off articles shared on Twitter May 1, 2023 Twitter will roll out a new feature allowing media publishers to charge users on a per-article basis, the company’s chief executive Elon Musk said on Saturday. Musk said this would allow users who did not want to sign up for monthly subscriptions to pay a higher per article price to read one article. In a [...]
Five things we learned from Elon Musk’s interview with the BBC April 12, 2023 Elon Musk plans to revoke a disputed “government funded media” label Twitter attributed to the BBC, claims advertisers are returning to the platform and admitted that he sometimes sleeps in the office. The billionaire chief executive — who is also at the head of electric car maker, Tesla, and spacecraft manufacturer, SpaceX — made the [...]
Elon Musk drops DogeCoin logo, restores Twitter bird, plus the Blue Tick latest April 11, 2023 Twitter has restored its bird logo after Elon Musk, one of the world’s funniest richest men, had temporarily switched it for the meme dog best known as the logo of cryptocurrency DogeCoin. Internet sluths went into overdrive trying to work out the reason. Was it a hack? A disgruntled employee? No, it was of course [...]
Gary Neville’s content company Buzz16 gets ‘multi-million pound investment’ as it looks at £200m IPO February 27, 2023 Miroma Group has acquired a majority stake in Gary Neville’s content company Buzz16, which is now planning a £200m plus IPO. Buzz16 was launched by the former footballer and current Sky Sports presenter in 2016. The exact amount Miroma paid for its share has not been disclosed but it said the “multi-million pound investment”, “solidifies” [...]
Dragons’ Den-inspired Social Chain media agency that works with Amazon and TikTok sold for £7.7m February 3, 2023 Social Chain, the social media agency founded by Dragons’ Den star Steven Bartlett, is to be sold in a deal worth at least £7.7 million. Social and digital media group Brave Bison announced on Friday that it had struck a deal to buy Social Chain. Mr Bartlett, who is a Dragon on the BBC show [...]
Disney names new chair as home of Mickey Mouse prepares for boardroom battle January 12, 2023 Walt Disney has named Nike veteran Mark Parker as its next chair while snubbing activist investor Nelson Peltz, who the company declined to nominate as a director. This comes after the multimedia giant faced demands from activist investor Peltz for a board seat. Peltz is the head of New York-based Trian Partners, which owns a [...]
Exclusive sitdown: Inflation is forcing advertisers to make some tough choices, warns Ebiquity’s boss January 10, 2023 As inflation hit the highest levels in decades in the UK last year, and across large parts of the world, and the cost of living crisis is eating up the household budgets of millions of Brits, many industries are increasingly suffering. That won’t be any different in 2023 and the advertising space is no exception. [...]
Musk lifts Twitter ban on political ads but may need to do more to lure advertisers back to the social media site January 5, 2023 Twitter is to lift its ban on political ads after losing nearly a million users since it was bought by Elon Musk in October last year. Musk’s controversial policy of reinstating controversial accounts including that of former US President Donald Trump, led to the reported loss of nearly 50 per cent of Twitter’s top advertisers. [...]
Shocking revelations in leaked extract of Prince Harry’s book: ‘William physically attacked me and branded Meghan “abrasive” January 5, 2023 The Duke of Sussex has reportedly claimed he was physically attacked by his brother over the younger prince’s marriage to Meghan Markle. In a leaked extract of his highly anticipated autobiography, Spare, to The Guardian newspaper, Prince Harry alleged the confrontation took place at his London home in 2019 and had left him with a [...]
Influencer Andrew Tate ‘detained in Romania on suspicion of human trafficking and rape’ December 30, 2022 Social media influencer Andrew Tate has reportedly been detained in Romania on suspicion of human trafficking and rape. The former kickboxer was held alongside his brother, Tristan, and two other suspects while his house was raided in the capital, Bucharest. “The four suspects … appear to have created an organised crime group with the purpose [...]