Kantar Group has teamed up with social media analytics company Vigiglobe to produce this infographic, which offers minute-by-minute analysis of the tweets containing mentions of the Olympic closing ceremony (in English).
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Shazam has revealed that there were several million interactions with its Shazam-enabled NBC Olympics broadcast in the US and more than a million from the Closing Ceremony alone.
Mark Thompson, the outgoing director general of the BBC, has been appointed as the new president and chief executive of the New York Times.
The BBC’s Olympic coverage was a huge success, not just for TV but also for digital and mobile. The corporation logged 34.6 million cumulative online users – with a peak daily total of 7.3 million on 5 August – by the end of Saturday, just as the Games came to a close.
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STV has partnered with Glasgow Caledonian University and Edinburgh Napier University in a bid to deliver two new local television channels in Edinburgh and Glasgow – ETV and GTV.
The UK’s oldest comic is facing closure after 75 years. The Dandy, priced at £1.99, saw its circulation drop to 8,000 in the second half of 2011.
