Ellie Ratcliffe
  • How many Brits understand Love Island lingo?Article

    How many Brits understand Love Island lingo?

    Fans of the show are familiar with words like "snakey", pied" and "muggy", but how many other Brits understand what the contestants on Love Island are talking about?

    19 Jul 2017
  • British people reveal the most embarrassing mistakes they’ve ever made at workArticle

    British people reveal the most embarrassing mistakes they’ve ever made at work

    With a lone engineer recently being blamed for accidentally causing travel chaos for BA customers across the globe, Brits tell YouGov their most embarrassing work mistakes

    19 Jul 2017
  • Love in the Time of Tinder: is our media changing perceptions of romance?Article

    Love in the Time of Tinder: is our media changing perceptions of romance?

    Dating show audiences are more optimistic about finding love in unconventional ways: yet when it comes to physical attraction versus emotional connection, they’re still traditional romantics. With the emergence of dating apps like Tinder and Happn, the way in which single people meet and date has changed dramatically over the ...

    28 Nov 2016
  • App results: The CrownArticle

    App results: The Crown

    Last week Netflix released its lavish new series, The Crown, documenting the life of the young Queen Elizabeth II. The show’s extravagant budget and glittering cast have attracted much publicity over the past few weeks, but when we looked into the numbers of people who’ve actually seen the show so ...

    28 Nov 2016
  • A Winter without Starks highlights the challenges for SkyArticle

    A Winter without Starks highlights the challenges for Sky

    With every episode of the show’s sixth season attracting over 5 million viewers to Sky Atlantic, Game of Thrones is indisputably Sky’s most successful and lucrative programme ever. Among our YouGov panel it remains the highest rated TV drama, and is ranked as the UK’s second favourite TV show, standing only behind The ...

    20 Oct 2016
  • Lord Sugar might hate long words, but The Apprentice’s keys to success are Prokofiev & SchadenfreudeArticle

    Lord Sugar might hate long words, but The Apprentice’s keys to success are Prokofiev & Schadenfreude

    It’s perhaps the most iconic theme tune on British TV today, and it was written for a 1930s ballet. Now after 12 seasons of The Apprentice, only a few opening notes of Prokofiev’s ‘Montagues and Capulets’ are needed to instantly alert the British viewer to the fact that an equally fierce rivalry ...

    06 Oct 2016