Yelp unveils up-and-coming cities after analyzing 61 million reviews
Some surprising cities are on the up-and-up, according to Yelp review data.
YouTube scores more soccer, but still misses EPL goal
Google is offering viewers more and more sports content, seemingly without having to shell out money on direct licenses. Now it has highlights from seven more tournaments, but is still lacking the world’s most-watched club soccer contest.
Official Olympics numbers: online engagement was mostly mobile
More data suggests these were the “mobile games”. London 2012’s organising committee says most digital engagement was via mobile devices, as it closes the lid on the Olympics with an end-of-games stats dump.
BBC’s ‘multi-platform Games’ reveals new appetite for live video, mobile browsing
The BBC’s celebrated ‘four-screen’ London 2012 output has revealed a late-night iPad fetish and new high water marks for live video and mobile content consumption. ‘This has really been the multi-platform Games,’ the corporation says.
YouTube’s sports plans: Scottish soccer highlights, English next?
A bid for full live English Premier League soccer rights may have been out of Google’s league. But could YouTube yet bid for online highlights?
Forget ‘social media Olympics’, these are the mobile games
Half of searches and video streams are coming from mobiles and tablets during the Olympic games. Has the mobile internet reached a tipping point? New Google data would seem to suggest as much.
BBC’s super-served Olympics shows how narrowcast can go large
UK TV viewers are gobbling up 24 simultaneous live Olympics streams the BBC is taking from web to TV. First-week data shows a big appetite for viewing of all kinds.
NBC: Nearly half of Olympics streams are from mobile, tablet
Almost half of the internet video NBC is serving this Olympics is going to mobiles and tablets. That’s a watershed for portable TV. But what happens when at-home internet TV becomes commonplace?
#NBCFail: spoilers feed prime time, ‘silent majority’ happy, NBC says
Stung by online criticism of its “#NBCFail” Olympics, the broadcaster comes out fighting with a range of record cross-platform viewing stats it says show critics are just a ‘vocal minority’. But can it make the most of digital when the laser focus is on prime time TV?
Volume of mobile tweets at Games so high it interfered with Olympic broadcast
Irony of ironies – after encouraging fans to tweet copiously, the International Olympic Committee requests London 2012 attendees limit their output only to “urgent” status updates. The problem – mobile updates from some attendees have clogged a mobile network used by official TV data suppliers.