{"id":91407,"date":"2016-08-19T10:14:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T10:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=91407"},"modified":"2016-11-08T10:40:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T10:40:19","slug":"ladbible-outranks-bbc-worldwide-and-sky-for-video-views-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/ladbible-outranks-bbc-worldwide-and-sky-for-video-views-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"LADbible outranks BBC Worldwide and Sky for video views in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>The<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><strong>LADbible<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><strong>Group has<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pressgazette.co.uk\/ladbible-ranks-as-europes-most-watched-for-video-content\/\">overtaken competition<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0from traditional broadcasters and publishers and emerged as the number one most watched media property group in Europe.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The UK-based group whose brands include the LAD Bible,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>SPORT<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Bible, GAMING Bible and FOOD Bible reached 3.1 billion views across all platforms in July, ahead of BBC Worldwide, Sky, RTL Group and the Daily Mail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Demonstrating just how far ahead of the crowd<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>LADbible\u00a0are, the group\u2019s nine brands recorded nearly four times the number of video views than BBC Worldwide\u2019s 322 channels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Globally,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>LADbible\u00a0Group is also doing incredibly well, coming a close third to Buzzfeed and Time Warner and putting them ahead of Walt Disney.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Highlighting the group\u2019s success, LADbible\u2019s COO Adam Clyne told journalists: \u201cWe have created a global audience of millennials and Gen Z who associate our brands with great video content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u201cIt\u2019s especially exciting to see how well<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>LADbible\u00a0Group is performing compared to some of the biggest media businesses in the world and to have moved from fourth to third place in the global rankings, moving ahead of a giant like the Walt Disney Company.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Innovation across new channels including Facebook Live where one video received a staggering 6.4 million views and a strategy that publishes a minimum of 50 videos per day are largely responsible for the group\u2019s success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Denis Crushell, European vice president at Tubular Labs who compiled the research, told journalists: \u201cThe<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>LADbible\u00a0Group understands what content their audience wants to watch and engage with<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>everyday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; 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