As the countdown to Rio 2016 approaches, media outlets are paying conspicuously little attention to the games themselves—instead focusing on the plethora of issues plaguing the country as it prepares to host the first summer games in South America. While Rio appeared...
Top U.S. Personal Watercraft Brands for May 2016
Following the recent Memorial Day Weekend, summer is officially upon us here in North America. And that means that bodies of water across the U.S. and Canada are now covered in marine vehicles of all shapes and sizes. Much like every year, watercraft season is...
In amusement park ‘arms race’ of 2016, Universal Studios’ Harry Potter takes the crown
Can you remember your first amusement park ride? Close your eyes for a moment – can you feel it? The wind in your hair, the smell of cotton candy, your friend screaming next to you, and the lurching metallic clicks underneath you as you feel yourself pulled skyward....
Toronto Fashion Week: Top five designers in online news
This past week saw the holding of Toronto Fashion Week and the release of the new fall 2016 collections from several world-class designers. Held at the same time as Vancouver Fashion Week, the Toronto show typically receives worldwide attention as new designs are...
Five of the most mentioned moments at the 88th Academy Awards
On Sunday, amidst a sea of controversy, the 88th Academy Awards were held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The result? An awards show that wasn’t afraid to address the issues...consistently. We used our media monitoring and analysis software to analyze five of the...
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Was the announcement as magical as it should have been?
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has already gained much media attention since its initial announcement in early December 2015. London's West End Stage play based on an original J.K. Rowling story, co-written by Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, instantly found itself in...
Comparing dating sites through media analysis
Do you believe in modern romance? According to statisticbrain.com, there are more than 54,250,000 singles in the United States—and 91 per cent of them have tried online dating. Lucky for them, the stigma associated with online dating continues to decrease year after...
#SAGAwards: Twitter declares Kate Winslet, Armani the red carpet champions
It’s awards season. And everybody loves awards season. Nowhere is that fact more obvious than on the great social barometer known as Twitter. The Screen Actors Guild Awards took place on January 30, the second major awards show of the year after the Golden Globes...
One Direction vs. Justin Bieber: Who won in online news ?
This weekend, both Justin Bieber and One Direction launched their latest albums—Purpose and Made in the A.M. respectively. Purpose is Bieber’s fourth studio album, and Billboard has even gone as far as to say that “from a PR perspective, Purpose is the album Justin...
Breaking Bad finale: Breaking Bad vs. Breaking Good
Walter White and his drug lord alter-ego, Heisenberg, cooked up the final episode of Breaking Bad this week. But, according to Twitter, did the trending tragic hero keep on breaking bad? Or did he at least partially redeem himself in the eyes of viewers?
AMC’s Breaking Bad: Twitter’s deconstruction of Heisenberg
AMC's Breaking Bad is one of the most popular and critically-acclaimed shows on cable television. The first episode of the final season kicked of on Sunday, August 11 and viewers took to Twitter to express their love. We tracked the hashtag #breakingbad to see what...