Amida Brimah Archives - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always https://citifmonline.com/tag/amida-brimah/ Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:46:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.8 https://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cropped-CITI-973-FM-32x32.jpg Amida Brimah Archives - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always https://citifmonline.com/tag/amida-brimah/ 32 32 San Antonio Spurs waive Amida Brimah https://citifmonline.com/2017/10/san-antonio-spurs-waive-amida-brimah/ Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:46:27 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=361639 The San Antonio Spurs have released Ghanaian centre Amida Brimah as they finalize their roster ahead of the 2017/2018 NBA season. The 7’0 shot blocker was hoping to secure a roster spot with the western conference power house following a summer league stint with the Chicago Bulls and subsequently making the Spurs pre-season roster. Brimah […]

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The San Antonio Spurs have released Ghanaian centre Amida Brimah as they finalize their roster ahead of the 2017/2018 NBA season.

The 7’0 shot blocker was hoping to secure a roster spot with the western conference power house following a summer league stint with the Chicago Bulls and subsequently making the Spurs pre-season roster.

Brimah made three pre-season appearances averaging 3.0 points and 3.0 rebounds in 5.7 minutes.

He was beaten to the centre position by former Michigan State Spartan Matt Costello who has been signed to a two-way contract, bringing the total number of players on the Spurs roster to seventeen.

The former NCAA National champion with the UCONN Huskies in 2014 will in effect become a free agent as he seeks other opportunities.

By:Benjamin Nketsia/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Facebook brings autoplay adverts to UK https://citifmonline.com/2014/05/facebook-brings-autoplay-adverts-to-uk/ Wed, 21 May 2014 12:32:20 +0000 http://4cd.e16.myftpupload.com/?p=19937 Facebook is introducing automatically playing video adverts to the UK. The social network initially trialled the features in the US and the first ads are expected to play in Britain within weeks. They will run without sound unless clicked on and, on mobile devices, will load only over wi-fi. Facebook will hope to continue its […]

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Facebook is introducing automatically playing video adverts to the UK.

The social network initially trialled the features in the US and the first ads are expected to play in Britain within weeks.

They will run without sound unless clicked on and, on mobile devices, will load only over wi-fi.

Facebook will hope to continue its recent success in increasing ad revenues, having seen a significant rise in the past 12 months.

The company said on Wednesday that it would be introducing the ads with a “limited group of advertisers” in the selected countries, including the UK, Australia and France.

It is also unveiling the feature, called Premium Video Ads, in Brazil, Canada, Germany and Japan. But Facebook did not reveal the companies that would be advertising.

Tentative

Facebook said the introduction would be tentative and, while the first ad could appear in June, most would not run until later as it attempted to control quality.

“We’ll roll out Premium Video Ads slowly and monitor how people interact with them,” said Facebook in a statement.

“This limited introduction allows us to concentrate our efforts on a smaller number of advertisers with high-quality campaigns.”

Each video advert will be 15 seconds long and will start playing without sound as it appears on the screen.

The ads will stop playing if users scroll past them. But, if people tap or click on the video, it will expand into a full-screen view and sound will start, Facebook said.

Facebook’s figures for the first quarter of 2014 showed it made $2.27bn (£1.34bn) from advertising, an 82% increase on the same quarter last year.

And it said that mobile ads, which have generated very little return until recently, represented about 59% of the company’s total advertising revenue for the quarter.

That was up from about 30% of advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2013.

Jeremy Arditi, UK managing director of online video ad tech company Ebuzzing, said it was a good move for Facebook.

But he said: “Most online video ads annoy people and interrupt their browsing experience,” adding that industry estimates indicated that “around 60% of online video ads don’t get seen”.

He pointed out that there was an element of risk to brands, which could conceivably end up appearing next to inappropriate content posted by other users.

 

Source: BBC

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