Digital Marketing, Media Industry, OTT and Social Media Marketing Trends - Daily Updates from May 1st to May 10th,2021

Digital Marketing, Media Industry, OTT and Social Media Marketing Trends - Daily Updates from May 1st to May 10th,2021

Google has designed a new chip to help load YouTube videos faster

Meredith Reportedly in Talks to Sell TV Stations to Gray Television

Ooredoo Oman adds unlimited streaming to Stream On HD

Streamers Strut Into NewFronts Buoyed by Pandemic Audience Gains

Local OTT services target middle-aged viewers to compete with Netflix

Harmonic Recognized as Market Share Leader in vCMTS and DAA by Dell'Oro Group

Magnite Closes SpotX Acquisition

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Nimble Studio

The Roku Streambar drops to $99 at Amazon

Instagram, Facebook Messenger won’t have default encryption till 2022

Facebook urges iOS users to allow tracking online, claims it keeps apps free

Microsoft Teams for macOS will soon add support for automatic meeting recording

Google Meet and Chat Could Soon Come Preinstalled on Chromebooks for Wider Adoption

Disney Plus Is Adding 10 New Movies/TV Shows This Week

Disney+ to add new fan art to celebrate Star Wars Day

Netflix's First Big Buy Should Be Discovery

HBO Max Chooses ENGINE as Social Media AOR

YouTube Allows Videos to Be Sampled by Default

Twitter to introduce ticketing for audio 'Spaces' feature

PUBG Mobile India may launch as Battlegrounds Mobile India

YouTube added to DStv Explora Ultra box

TVOkids’ Power Hour of Learning introduces brand-new episodes to support at-home learning

Estrella Media to monetize streaming TV platforms with Google Ad Manager

Cyber asset management and governance startup JupiterOne raises $30M

Boost Mobile to become first wireless carrier to offer free health care services

VIZIO Expands Lifestyle Programming With 10 Free Channels on SmartCast™ TVs

Mediapro to kick off Chinese Super League OTT platform

Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World

Koo’s ‘Talk to Type’ eases the way for regional language creators

Tom Hanks 'Bios' sold to Apple TV Plus

Brightcove powers Studio Mojo's independent Malayalam OTT service

Sooner SVoD launches on Alteox

LiveXLive To Acquire Modern Drummer Publications

European League of Football goes OTT with StreamAMG

fuboTV Announces Launch of Branded Content Studio at 2021 IAB NewFronts

Global pay-TV set to smash 1BN barrier over next five years

Multichoice Adds YouTube App Support To Its DStv Explora Ultra

A new YouTube feature will make its connected TV ads more shoppable

YouTube is testing automatic translations in the user's native language

YouTube Announces New Original Series Starring Will Smith and Alicia Keys

Facebook and YouTube agree to strengthen anti-piracy measures

Facebook’s Trump ban can stay in place, says Oversight Board

Super Stream launches summer edition to provide free access to new content on YouTube in May

The Movie Studio Inc. (MVES) Announces Launch of Streaming Platform on Apple App Store

ZEE Entertainment, Salman Khan Films to support Covid-19 relief work

ShortsTV enters Nepal with local partnerships

Tegna Expanding Ad Measurement, Fact-Checking, and Sports Offerings

e4m Play Streaming Media Conference & Awards 2021 set to take place on 12 May

Rotana Media Group and Wide Khaliji sign breakthrough deal

PubMatic Extends Fraud-Free Program to CTV

Amazon courts brand dollars as ad-supported OTT offerings hit 120M, monthly viewers

Extreme Reach Announces Promotion of Gaurav Agarwal to Chief Operating Officer

ShortsTV expands its reach in Asia, enters Nepal in partnership with DishHome & SimTV

Donald Trump returns to social media with glorified blog

Prince William and Kate Middleton launch YouTube channel

YouTube tests automatic translation of video titles on desktop and mobile

YouTube brings TikTok-like videos to all creators in the US

Sinclair Isn't Budging On Agreements With YouTube TV, Hulu Live TV For RSNs

Battlegrounds Mobile India official teaser released by KRAFTON on YouTube

YouTube TV arrives on PS5, just in time to pick up ex-Roku viewers

YouTube Sets Cross-Platform Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Fare

Complex Network’s First We Feast Has 10 Million YouTube Subscribers

Namitha’s OTT Platform ‘Namitha Theatre’

Paramount+ and Showtime Combine for 36 Million Global Subscribers

du partners with ATEME on UAE OTT and DTH projects

Pluto TV Latino Expands And Rebrands To Pluto TV En Español

Illusion Reality Studioz partners with Kunal Kohli for Ramyug

JW Player acquires video streaming and DRM solutions company VUALTO

TCC Uruguay debuts Android TV service powered by SDMC and 3SS

Eros Stock – Eros STX Sees Itself as a $1 Billion Business in 2022

Vietnam ready for new telecoms platform

The new channel launches as Stingray picks up 13 new partners

Signal reveals how Facebook and Instagram collect your data for ads

YouTube TV launches PlayStation 5 app

YouTube announces Beauty Festival featuring Selena Gomez and more

YouTube is testing Premium music controls for those who won’t switch to YouTube Music

PSG announce collaboration to commemorate music icon Prince

Studio Mojo partners with Brightcove to extend the reach of Malayalam OTT Koode

Roku Streaming Hours Have Increased 50% in Last Year

TFPC to launch a new OTT platform!

Horror movie Host to have a direct to OTT release in India

Medibiz TV join hands with Air TV 

Tencent's WeTV streaming service goes live on the Zeasn Whale Eco platform

CJ ENM to launch new K-pop-inspired boy group in Latin America

JW Player Acquires Streaming, DRM Provider VUALTO

Eros International Plc Announces Corporate Name Change to Eros STX Global Corporation

Paramount+ powers ViacomCBS to 6M streaming sub adds in Q1

Meredith reveals a programming slate of premium video and audio content

Netflix is considering a supplemental service called 'N-Plus'

NBC is bringing some Olympic Games coverage to Twitch

TikTok works with Streamlabs' tipping and Livestream tools

YouTube ratchets up Roku face-off by adding YouTube TV to the main YouTube app

YouTube opens Shorts, a TikTok-style social function to all users in the U.S.

New Music Controls For YouTube Will Make Listening To Music Easier

Microsoft Edge bug causing crashes when viewing YouTube videos fix in the works

Extremists find a financial lifeline on Twitch

TEGNA Shareholders Re-Elect All 12 TEGNA Directors at 2021 Annual Meeting

Cinedigm Announces Record Ad Revenue Enhancements from the Deployment 

The streaming ad market is catching up to TV: Roku CEO

GTA V dethrones Just Chatting as the most popular category on Twitch

NBC Partnering With Twitch on Live Olympics Content

Apple TV+ gives us a 'Ghostwriter' primer as season 2 returns

Apple tried to appease Netflix in App Store quarrel

Netflix Exploring More Social Features With N Plus: Report

New initiative offers law enforcement training via virtual reality

Oculus Quest Pro top features teased in new Zuckerberg interview

Instagram head apologizes for bug that deleted story posts

Facebook Will Limit Your WhatsApp Features For Not Accepting Privacy Policy

In Canada, digital video surpasses TV in ad spending for the first time

JW Player Delivers First HTML5 Video Player with Support for Open Measurement Compliant Video Ads

Spotify launches campaign for gender equality in the music industry; Red Velvet's Wendy represents South Korea

Gmail Gets ‘External’ Label to Identify Emails With Recipients From Outside Your Google Workspace Organisation

Instagram is adding a mute feature and the ability to turn off videos to its Live Videos

Thanks to Spotify, the Music Is Stopping for Apple

YouTube Sets Pride Month Livestreams To Raise Funds For The Trevor Project

Google Play is suspending free trials in India following new RBI regulations

Roku removes YouTube TV from its store

Amazon advertising business surges by 77% to nearly $7 billion this quarter

Google Launching New Rules To Improve App Quality On Play Store

Facebook Acquires VR Military Simulator ‘Onward’ Developer

Microsoft Says Teams Now Has More Than 145 Million Daily Active Users

Google holds the keys to web privacy in Africa and Asia

Google Podcasts gets redesigned Now Playing UI on iOS, lets you block recommendations

Facebook to launch a News Platform and is encouraging local and independent reporters to join them

Instagram Is Improving the Ways of Communication for Business Accounts by Updating the Contact Information

Google Pixel 6 could launch next month, CEO hints

Facebook to help Indian users with authoritative information about Covid symptoms, vaccines

Google travel searches now show COVID-19-related restrictions

Instagram Expands Merchandising Platform With 'Creator Shops'

China Deletes Social Media Posts Mocking India Over COVID-19 Crisis After Backlash

AWS leads $42 bln global Cloud services market in Q1, Microsoft 2nd: Canalys

Spotify crosses 1 billion downloads on Android, becomes the most installed audio streaming app

Facebook Messenger, Instagram direct to receive end-to-end chat encryption by 2022

Vodafone joins up with Google cloud on data analytics

Google launching handshake emoji with 25 skin tone options

Rapchat tunes into $2.3M as its music-making app hits 7M users

Clubhouse starts testing ‘rough’ Android beta app

Facebook starts sending iPhone users to notice to help educate them about the benefits of personalized ads

Twitter row over eSales of 'non-essentials' in Mumbai

Chromebooks could soon come with Google Chat and Google Meet preinstalled

Google Introduces Android Earthquake Alerts Outside The U.S.

Spotify’s New ‘Your Library’ Makes It Easier To Find What You’re Looking For

Google could be working on UWB support for Pixel 6

Twitter will reportedly launch an ad campaign to help local journalists and news outlets gain more followers on the platform

Amazon expected to lead US retail by 2025: Report

Facebook, Instagram convince iOS users to allow for app tracking to remain free

Google Chrome’s media player is getting playback speed controls

Amazon India announces measures to help SMBs amid the second wave of COVID-19

Apple hires Ex-Google Artificial Intelligence Scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings

IPL 2021: #CancelIPL trends on Twitter after Varun Chakravarthy, 9 others test positive

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Buys 600 Acres Of Land In Hawaii For $53 Million

YouTube is now generating $2BN a month from ads - and grew faster than Netflix in Q1

Google testing a heads up feature that'll remind you to look up if you're using your phone while walking

Twitter Spaces now open to anyone with more than 600 followers

Local media outlets ink news sharing deals with Google, Facebook

Google Stadia product head John Justice leaves the company

YouTube Introduces Machine Learning Individual Object Recognition on Videos and Facebook Follows Next

Google Pay users may soon be able to make Tap-and-Pay UPI payments Via NFC

NFL to air Thursday Night Football package exclusively on Amazon in 2022, one year earlier than planned

Elliott Buys More Than $200 Million Twitter Shares On Dip

Twitter will soon allow creators to sell entry tickets for rooms on Spaces

Google Cloud supports PHP on Cloud Functions

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon FinSpace

Google Adds Links To Featured Snippets Leading Back To Google Search Results

Facebook Launches New Emotional Health Center to Mark Mental Health Awareness Month

Google has designed a new chip to help load YouTube videos faster

Signal tries to highlight how Facebook collects data from users, gets banned by Facebook 

Will Smith to get fit for YouTube series

YouTube's new translation experiment lets you browse titles in your native tongue

Google is pausing free trials for Play Store apps in India, blame the new RBI regulation

WhatsApp Money Transfers Relaunched in Brazil, Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Announces

Instagram Rolling Out Captions for Stories, Reels to Get It Soon: How to Use

YouTube testing auto-translation for the video title, description, buttons, and more

Facebook Launches In-App Vaccine Tracker In India

Twitter Buys Scroll and Its Ad-Free News App With Aim to Bolster Upcoming Subscription Service

Google Docs Gets New ‘Show Editors’ Feature to Easily Identify Changes in Shared Documents

Facebook Announces ZionEX Platform for Training AI Models with 12 Trillion Parameters

Google Photos Will Start Charging You For Storage Over 15GB

YouTube Allows Videos to Be Sampled by Default

Facebook Workplace Tool Grows to 7 Million Subscribers as Jobs Go Remote in Pandemic

Google Search Console Stops Reporting On Scroll To Text

Facebook Announces 2021 Community Accelerator Grant Program to Assist Facebook Community Leaders

Snapchat Rolls Out Dark Mode on iOS

Jeff Bezos Just Sold $2.5 Billion Worth Of Amazon Stock In His First Sale Of 2021

Amazon Joins US-Based Global Task Force to Bring in Ventilators to Help India Fight COVID-19

Snapchat releases a new lens to encourage young voters to discuss issues

Twitter Will Now Prompt Users When They Reply With Offensive Language

WallStreetBets Members May Have Lost Over $2M to Telegram Crypto Scam: Report

Whatsapp to introduce end-to-end encrypted backups

Google AdSense Pauses Related Search Experiments

Twitter Launches 'I Wish I Knew' Podcast to Provide Insight into How it Utilizes Audience Research

Google to Use Carbon-Free Energy for Virginia Data Centers

YouTube tests removal of video dislike count

Google Docs and Slides get better Adobe Creative Cloud integration

Microsoft to use resources to support Covid relief efforts in India, provide 25,000 oxygen concentrators

Google Advances Green Goal With AES Deal for Carbon-Free Power

Twitter is exploring monetization features for its audio chat feature, Spaces

Microsoft to allow EU customers to process, store data in the region

YouTube tests automatic translation of video titles on desktop and mobile

Twitter's new campaign focuses on supporting local journalism

YouTube begins testing “listening controls” UI for music in the main app

Facebook Chats Power a New $48 Billion Market in Social Commerce

YouTube TV launches PlayStation 5 app

Facebook removes Ukraine political 'influence-for-hire' network

Twitter starts rolling out Tip Jar feature to allow monetization of your tweets

Google introduces Woolaroo, a tool for learning indigenous languages

Snap to launch a new Creator Marketplace this month, initially focused on Lens Creators

Apple tried to stop Netflix from dropping in-app purchases, emails reveal

Google To Automatically Enroll Users in Two-Step Verification

PhonePe’s UPI market share rises to 45% in April; Google Pay slips a tad

Walmart to Buy Telehealth Company MeMD

Netflix Could Launch ‘N-Plus’ Subscription Service That Offers Insider Access to TV Shows, Podcasts, More

Google Play App Listings to Have Apple’s App Store-Like Privacy Labels Starting Next Year

Facebook announces new features for Instagram and Messenger

Google To Automatically Enroll Users in Two-Step Verification

Twitter rolls out larger image previews on iOS, Android

Google Meet adds limit data usage mode for Android and iOS users

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