Insights

• Insights: The Big Schmear – Soon Every Social Media Platform Will Look Like Every Other One
• Insights: VidCon Navigates An Industry’s Stormy Season With New Owner, Influx Of Brands And Platforms

  From its modest beginnings in a Los Angeles hotel basement to this week’s 30,000-strong online-influencer extravaganza swallowing the mammoth Anaheim Convention Center, VidCon has seen a few changes since its low-key 2010 launch.

  
• Insights: It’s Game On As Facebook Takes On Twitch And YouTube For Live-Streaming Primacy

  Facebook is making a BIG play to get gamers on the site and to get their fans to tune in. But can it work with the dominant player that is Twitch? And determined Player 2 that is YouTube?

  
• Insights: Has Facebook Already Lost The Next Generation Of Users?

  Facebook's apology tour hits the media with $32 million in ad spend while teens are leaving the platform for hipper pastures.

  
• Insights: Between ‘Solo’ Misfire And Comcast Pitch, Is Disney’s Streaming Strategy Still A Winner?
• Insights: We Have Influencers And Games, But Why Not More Games From Influencers?
• Insights: Why Can’t Anyone Figure Out How To Make A Social Music App?
• Insights: “Short And Safe” Is The Marketing Mantra In A Post-Backlash NewFronts
• Insights: How Tech, The Young, And A Local Mindset Might Reset America’s Fractured Politics
• Insights: A Peek At Latin America’s Video Potential
• Insights: What Can Online Talent Teach Broadcasters About TV’s Impending Two-Way Future?
• Insights: Fortnite’s Pop Culture Breakthrough May Last More Than Two Weeks