This year, the opening discussion of ANGA COM (May 30th to June 1st in Cologne) will be moderated by TV journalist Claus Strunz. Currently and amongst others, Strunz is presenter of the German TV magazine akte 20.17, broadcast by Sat.1. He was editor-in-chief of the German tabloid newspaper Bild am Sonntag and deputy editor-in-chief of […]
Technology firm Triple-C is launching SMART in partnership with Vonetize, the new IPTV service for the Israeli market, with STB solutions spcialist WeTek (www.wetek.com) providing customised Set-top boxes fully adapted to both Triple C’s network and Vonetize’s content distribution service. “This collaboration with Triple-C and Vonetize clearly conveys our vision and translates how bound and […]
Newsflare, the video marketplace which sells videos to the global media and TV producers, has continued its partnership with one of the UK’s largest indies, ITN Productions, to produce a second series of popular TV programme, Car Crash Global. The pair first teamed up in May 2016 to create the original series, featuring dash-cam footage […]
YuMe, a provider of digital video brand advertising., has released a report measuring ad attention by comparing the actual time a viewer’s eyes were tracked watching an ad against the total time the ad was viewable for connected TV, desktop and mobile campaigns. The study concludes that viewers pay attention to a higher proportion of ads […]
Mobile advertising accounted for more than half (51 per cent) of the record-breaking $72.5 billion (€66.5bn) spent by advertisers last year, according to the latest IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report, released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and prepared by PwC US. The total represents a 22 per cent increase, up from $59.6 billion in […]
Investment company Kinnevik has agreed to acquire 33.9 million shares, corresponding to an approximate 18.5 per cent interest, in Swedish multi-play operator Com Hem Holding from NorCell S.à r.l., the indirect investment holding company of funds advised by BC Partners LLP, for a cash consideration of SEK 110 per share, or SEK 3.7 billion (€385m) […]
Netflix has raised its senior notes offering to €1.3 billion, upsizing the debt offering from a previously announced €1 billion. The streaming giant is offering the notes to investors outside of the US and said that it expects the sale to close on May 2nd. The notes will mature on May 15th 2027, unless earlier […]
Pay-radio operator Sirius XM Canada, an affiliate of the USA’s Sirius XM, is going private. Canada’s Radio-Television & Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has given its approval to a planned transaction which, it says, “will benefit Canadians and Canadian music artists for years to come”. As a condition of its approval CRTX has directed that Sirius XM […]
Comcast, the US telco and largest broadcasting and cable television company in the world by revenue, has reported results for the quarter ended March 31st 2017. Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Comcast Corporation, said, “2017 is off to the fastest start in five years. We are reporting outstanding growth at Cable […]
Having signalled his preference for such a move in a keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the end of February, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has confirmed his intention to reverse predecessor Tom Wheeler’s ‘Open Internet’ policy designed to ensure net neutrality. In a speech at the Newseum in Washington, DC on […]