Thursday 1 October 2015

News stories.


The streaming service Netflix has analysed viewer data from 16 countries to find out at what point in several hit programmes someone is 70% likely to finish at least the first series of a show. 

The data in this research was pulled from accounts who started watching season one of the selected series between January 2015 and July 2015 in Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK and US and between April 2015 and July 2015 for Australia and New Zealand. A hooked episode was defined when 70% of viewers who watched that episode went on to complete season one. Hooked episodes were first identified by country, then averaged to create the global hooked episode. The hooked episode had no correlation to total viewership numbers or attrition. 

This study shows how the way in which people watch television is shifting to streaming. The fact that audiences are watching tv series' on demand shows how watching television is becoming something that was done in the past.

Mark Zuckerberg calls for universal internet access to combat poverty

Calling for efforts to ensure internet access for everyone globally by 2020, Mr Zuckerberg said internet connections are a dynamic tool for sharing knowledge, creating opportunities, lifting communities out of poverty and promoting peace. The connectivity campaign calls on governments, businesses and innovators to bring the internet to the some 4 billion people who now do not have access, organisers said.
  • 4 billion people still don't have access to the internet 
With Mark Zuckerberg and the 193 UN Members trying to provide internet for those who still don't have access, it shows how the internet and these developments in technology are becoming our way of live and is a necessity in the world that we live in. 

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