News Broadcasting
Rich media ad product on Lycos Network
US: Terra Lycos, which claims to be the largest global Internet network has announced that CheckM8, a new rich media advertising product, has been deployed on the Lycos Network.
CheckM8 is an end-to-end rich media and integrated marketing solution for the rapid and easy production, management and deployment of innovative media units including floating ads, preview ads, footer and margin ads, watermarks and many more. With the new technology, Lycos can dramatically compress the time it takes to implement creative online advertising, allowing clients to quickly realize the benefits of high impact messaging and to easily adjust the creative to suit their needs.
Lycos claims to have historically embraced rich media ad units as an opportunity to provide value to both advertisers and users. CheckM8 allows the company to implement ad campaigns that combine innovative branding with response-based ad units that can play a key roll in offline/online consumer messaging efforts. An official release informs that Lycos conducted limited tests of the CheckM8 products over the past few months successfully. Lycos claims that clients who have tested CheckM8 have deployed campaigns in a fraction of the time required to launch many other rich media formats and enjoyed click-through rates well above rates seen on standard Internet advertising products.
The release says Lycos Network made a big move toward rich media advertising late last year when it re-launched its network with a new media-friendly architecture. By regulating the number of exposures per user rather than restricting placement of new ad formats, Lycos streamlined the network with a uniform architecture that was almost universally accepting of diverse rich media formats.
News Broadcasting
News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
