Media & Entertainment

• [New] With e-commerce the way of the future and young people naturally switched on to social media and the Internet, Malaysia will be well placed to penetrate ASEAN's 600 million market. / The Edge Markets
• [New] Iranian journalists working for the Persian-language sections of international media or for Iranian exile TV channels and websites based abroad have been subjected to threats by Iran's intelligence agencies or justice system. / RSF
• [New] Over the long haul, Facebook's recent payments moves could help build the consumer trust and participation needed for adoption of digital currency through social media platforms. / American Banker
• [New] The IRS will never initiate contact using email, phone calls, social media or text messages. / Marketplace.org
• [New] Media entering Japan from abroad could be monitored by GPS to make sure they follow the rules that will be spelled out in the third edition of the so-called Playbooks due out later this month. / CP24
• [New] If international media and donor nations continue their irresponsible policies, then more innocents will surely die in next round and terrorists around the world will see that terrorism does pay. / JNS.org
• [New] With increasing amounts of time spent in the Metaverse, the ratio between the virtual and physical possessions we own will increase dramatically. / The Business of Fashion
• [New] Average time spent with traditional media will decrease by 5.7% in 2021, a decline largely attributable to people spending less time watching traditional TV. / USA / Insider Intelligence
• [New] From being the world's most powerful consumers to harnessing social media to amplify peer influence, they will play an increasingly critical role in reshaping an uncertain world beset with urgent environmental and social issues. / Eco-business
• [New] GM will allocate 4% of its media budget to diverse-owned outlets in 2021, increasing it to 8% by 2025, and McDonald's will double its spend with diverse media owners from 4% of its total budget to 10% of its total budget by 2024. / campaignlive
• [New] Digital marketing in the next few years is and will continue to be centered around original, high-value content; email marketing; social media engagement; experiential marketing; and influence. / Webbiquity LLC
• [New] The 62 million followers of anti-vaccine accounts could be worth up to $1.1 billion in annual revenue for social media giants, primarily generated by advertisers knowingly or unknowingly paying to reach users interested in vaccine misinformation. / ugd
• The Nigerian Federal Government has announced that it will be indefinitely blocking access to microblogging and social media platform, Twitter, in Nigeria. / Techpoint Africa
• The expansion of LaLiga North America's responsibilities to include Mexico will focus on media rights and strengthening commercial operations, including developing and producing content in order to grow LaLiga fans in Mexico. / Inside World Football
• In response, the new research, Mobile Messaging: Future Outlook, Strategic Recommendations & Market Forecasts 2021-2025, predicts that operators will need to accelerate investment into rich media technologies to offset the loss of SMS revenue over the next 5 years. / Resource Centre
• Decentralised social media and file storage will likely become the norm within the next ten years. / Wired UK
• Sky should sell its telecoms arm to Vodafone, creating a simpler NBC-Sky combination that could be spun off from Comcast as a separately listed media giant. / The Telegraph

Last updated: 14 June 2021