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Byline: Jessica Davies ASOS has overtaken Topshop to top the social media league tables by accruing more Twitter and Facebook followers than any other fashion brand in 2011, according to [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Facebook has confirmed that is has bought location-based network Gowalla for an undisclosed sum. The social network had been tipped to have made an offer for the [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies BBC Worldwide is putting personalised on-demand content and products at the heart of its ecommerce strategy ahead of a major platform overhaul. The commercial arm of the [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies US public service broadcaster PBS is focusing on digital channels to build its UK audience. The TV channel, which debuts tonight (1 November) on BSkyB channel 166 [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies MTV has created a category for people who engage online and via social networks for this year's EMA awards. The Biggest Fan category will be decided by [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Absolute Radio has revealed that over 40% of in-bound traffic from online aggregator Radioplayer comes from BBC Radio, with Global Radio second highest at 25.9% and Facebook [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Facebook will be the leading distributor of media by the year 2020, according to Dharmash Mistry, partner at former Bebo investor Balderton Capital. Speaking at Red Bee [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Toyota has launched a Facebook-based app for Apple devices designed to attract a younger demographic to its Yaris model. The Social Snap Shot app, which runs across [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Channel 5 has launched its Facebook voting app for reality show Big Brother. The broadcaster, which first revealed its plan to launch Facebook voting for the show [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Heinz has launched a loyalty campaign for its chilli-flavoured Tomato Ketchup variants exclusively on Facebook. The social media campaign centres on offering discount vouchers that double in [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Channel 5 is planning to launch Facebook-based voting in time for the regular Big Brother series, which follows Celebrity Big Brother to launch this Friday. The broadcaster [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Online radio aggregator Radioplayer has launched on Facebook as it looks to increase the social appeal of radio. The joint venture between the BBC and commercial radio [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Convergence, data, micropayments and the UK launch of Google TV were among the hot topics discussed at this year's Edinburgh International TV Festival. ITV's head of commercial [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Oakley will kick off the second part of its You Vs social media campaign with Irish golf champion Rory McIlroy next week. This campaign centres on a [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Alfa Romeo's branded content environment within football-themed social game I am Playr has seen the car marque double its Facebook fan base within three months. Alfa Romeo [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Endemol Games UK is to launch a Facebook game based on the BBC TV show Total Wipeout. Players of the motion-controlled game, Total Wipeout: Big Ball Run, [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Mountain Dew Energy is considering launching its first Facebook store to give fans exclusive access to limited edition drinks. The Pepsico-owned drinks brand has shifted its marketing [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Absolute Radio is considering the use of Facebook Credits as a way to diversify revenue streams. Content director Tony Moorey told new media age the introduction of [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies It will take more than a slick micropayment mechanism to entice consumers into paying for content that has always been free. This week ITV divulged the launch [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Following ITV's announcement this morning that it is to introduce micropayments for the ITV Player early next year, new media age spoke to industry experts to see [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Seat UK is making its first major foray into social media with the launch of a cross-platform campaign to promote its music content tie-up with Universal Music. [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Facebook is equal to directly-controlled websites as an editoral platform for BBC Worldwide, according to the broadcaster's senior VP of global digital properties and ecommerce Claude London. [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Channel 4 News has kick-started is mobile strategy with the launch a free app across iPhone, iPad and iTouch devices. The apps will include the most popular [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies UKTV has launched a multi-platform campaign to promote its new series Dynamo: Magician Impossible on entertainment channel Watch. The broadcaster worked with digital agency Five by Five [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Channel 4 is to stream live behind-the-scenes content from T4 On The Beach exclusively on Facebook -- a first for the broadcaster. Viewers of the live music [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Channel 5's decision to use Facebook as a voting platform for reality show Big Brother is a gamble, but if executed well, could set the scene for [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Channel 5 is to use Facebook as a voting platform for reality show Big Brother for the first time. The broadcaster is working with show producer Endemol, [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Mobile Interactive Group says it's doing all it can to ensure the mobile voting systems for reality show Big Brother will be risk-free for voters. Channel 5 [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Starbucks and Manning Gottlieb OMD took the Grand Prix at this year's new media age Effectiveness Awards, for Starbucks Rewards, which also won the Best Retail Campaign [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Phones4u has launched a Facebook-led campaign to promote its HTC ChaCha handset. The campaign centres on a game designed to resemble the handset and featuring a three-dial [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies ITN Productions is to use Facebook to unite its online content communities via a single destination. The content owner, which supplies video news to newspaper sites including [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Online video broadcaster ChannelFlip has signed up Dell as official sponsor for the third web-only series of David Mitchell's Soapbox. The series launches tomorrow (26 May) on [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Men's fashion brand Lyle & Scott has made its first move into selling via social media channels, with a Facebook store. The Scottish brand revealed its plans [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies ITV and TalkbackThames Digital have upped the multi-platform offering for Britain's Got Talent, adding a host of social and mobile features. A red buzzer feature, online, on [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies KEO Films has launched a casting call for Channel 4's reality show Living With The Amish exclusively on Facebook. The independent TV production company is using Facebook [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies ITV is to launch a series of exclusive online episodes to supplement its second series of The Only Way Is Essex. The weekly episodes, called The Only [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Heinz is to make a limited-edition flavour of tomato ketchup available exclusively through Facebook, making it the first food brand to sell a product through the social [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Cinema chain Vue has launched its first booking application on Facebook. The app will let people book or reserve tickets from within the social network. Visitors to [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Google has bought social media analytics firm Fflick in a bid to make YouTube more social. The search giant hasn't disclosed the value of the buyout but [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Broadcaster Five has uploaded its first long-form TV shows on Facebook. Viewers can go to Demand Five, click on an episode and then on the Facebook 'like' [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Channel 4 is launching a major social media campaign to build engagement ahead of the fifth series of Skins, which airs on E4 in January. The push [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Facebook could become a key distribution medium for TV shows if Five's launch on the social network proves to be a success. Broadcasters are monitoring Five's move [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies ITV is launching a major cross-platform offering for new reality show The Only Way is Essex, which airs on ITV2 in The broadcaster, which worked with Lime [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Social media will overtake search as the dominant force in the digital marketing space, according to Joanna Shields, VP EMEA of Facebook. Speaking at the international Dmexco [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies ITV is rolling out its dual-screen platform ITV Live for The X Factor. ITV Live, which was launched for this year's World Cup, integrates with Facebook and [...]

Byline: Jessica Davies Five is set to become the first broadcaster to show TV programmes on Facebook. The companies have struck a deal which will see Five's TV-on-demand player Demand [...]