Sunday evening was the much-awaited first episode of the new Top Gear, hosted by Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc. Fans have been waiting with baited breath to see whether the new hosts would meet the show’s previous standard, and many were not impressed. The new version of one of the BBC’s most popular shows was highly criticized on social media and in the press, and we used Visibrain to find out what people had to say.
Texas mother Candace Payne shot to unexpected stardom this weekend after a video she posted on Facebook Live went viral. Her Chewbacca mask unboxing video, complete with hysterical laughter, was massively shared on social media and in the press. We used the Visibrain media monitoring platform to take a look at how Candace’s infectious giggles turned into a global phenomenon in a matter of hours.
The 69th edition of the Cannes Film Festival got off to a great start on Twitter. Visibrain, the online media-monitoring platform, compared tweet volumes for the first day of this year’s festival with those of previous years: tweet volumes for the opening day of Cannes 2016 are four times higher than they were back in 2012, and have doubled compared to 2015!
The Panama Papers scandal has been in full swing for over a month now and is showing no signs of stopping. Quite the contrary: the database went online this week and is fully searchable, allowing the public to uncover more and more of the individuals involved every day.
We used Visibrain to look back on the first moments of the biggest leak in the history of data journalism, to see how the scandal broke and spread in the press and on social media.
The Panama Papers scandal has now been raging since April, and online activity around the topic has been gradually decreasing. That all changed this weekend when “John Doe”, the anonymous individual at the source of the Panama Papers, spoke up for the first time, publishing a written account of his thoughts and intentions. On top of that, the Panama Papers database went public last night, stimulating the conversation around the topic even further. We used the Visibrain media monitoring platform to see how these latest developments have boosted the conversation around Panama Papers.