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During the Olympic games, half of searches and video streams have come from mobiles and tablets, according to Google.
The UK has passed its high-speed broadband milestone, with two million subscribers at the beginning of July, according to Point Topic.
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Toby Beresford, founder of Leaderboarded.com, says if you are business looking to leverage social data in your campaigns, first work out what you’re sifting for in the stream, gain consumer opt-in and then create responses that are triggered as soon as they occur…
BBC One’s Olympic coverage continues to dominate the TV ratings, with almost 11 million peak viewers tuning in to the action between 8.30pm and 9pm.
Channel 4’s new viewer engagement strategy has signed up five million people, up from two million at the end of 2011.
Facebook’s share price is down to an all time low of $19.82 after the company announced that 83 million of the social network’s 995 million profiles are fake.
According to Reuters, US pay TV subscriptions have dropped by more than 400,000 this year. In Q2, Time Warner Cable saw video subscriptions fall by 169,000; Comcast 176,000, Dish 10,000 and DirecTV 52,000.
