In the past few weeks, Twitter has secured deals with several television companies and sports leagues hoping to get in early on the San Francisco-based social network's burgeoning livestreaming business. And while Twitter has struggled to grow fast enough to please Wall Street in the last few quarters, broadcasters and advertisers are hopeful that a new set of products could help Twitter get back on course (if only as a hedge against the growing clout of Facebook and Snapchat).
In early July, Twitter announced a partnership with CBS News to livestream gavel-to-gavel coverage of last week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland and this week's Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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