Sky Sports will be the only place to see live Ladbrokes Premiership action from 2020, after agreeing a new five year partnership with the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL). Sky beat current rights-holder BT Sport to secure the deal. Sky Sports will show up to 48 live Ladbrokes Premiership matches every season, as well as […]
Freesat, the UK’s subscription-free satellite TV platform, has expanded its on-demand service by adding Eros Now, the South Asian digital OTT distribution service by global Indian film entertainment company Eros International. With over 128 million registered users and 13 million paying subscribers (as of June 2018), Eros Now offers a library of over 11,000 Indian […]
HBO is planning to start operations in Portugal during the first quarter of 2019, reports local publication Meios e Publicidade. The pay-TV channel has opened an office in Lisbon and has already contracted several managers for its Portuguese operations. Patrícia Reis, a former marketing director at Disney, has been named VP marketing of HBO Portugal. […]
Research conducted by Telecompaper shows that the Dutch TV and video market is growing strongly. Revenues in the second quarter for pay-TV services amounted to €556 million, up 7.2 per cent from a year earlier, buoyed by new OTT providers expanding their presence in the market. The average digital TV package in the Netherlands has […]
A multi-million-pound deal by satellite operator Eutelsat Communications and aerospace manufacturer Airbus Defence and Space for two new communication satellites will see components and major parts assembled in the UK before final assembly is completed in Toulouse, France. The deal is seen as a huge vote of confidence in the UK expertise in the space […]
Sixty-five per cent of all money spent on advertising in digital media in 2019 will be traded programmatically, according to Zenith’s Programmatic Marketing Forecasts. Advertisers will spend $84 billion (€73.64bn) programmatically next year, up from $70 billion this year, which represents 62 per cent of digital media expenditure. Zenith predicts that in 2020 advertisers will […]
Confirming the news that UK interests are to play a significant role in their construction, aeronautics specialist Airbus has been selected by satellite operator Eutelsat to build two HOTBIRD new-generation telecommunication satellites that will replace the current spacecraft and enhance capacity at Eutelsat’s premium broadcasting position 13° East. The two satellites will deliver improved performances […]
AT&T and Fox Networks Group have renewed a multi-year deal to continue distribution of Fox programming across AT&T’s video platforms DirecTV, DirecTV NOW and AT&T U-verse. The renewal includes Fox-owned local broadcast stations in 17 cities and the 22 Fox-owned regional sports networks. It also includes FS1, FS2, FX, FXX, FXM, National Geographic Channel, Nat […]
Elon Musk, head of SpaceX, said in a Tweet that “SpaceX is no longer planning to upgrade Falcon 9 second stage for reusability”. Instead, he said SpaceX would be focusing on accelerating the design and build of the significantly larger ‘BFR’ (Big Falcon Rocket) which was “very exciting” and “delightfully counter intuitive”. Falcon 9 will […]
Digital media measurement software and analytics specialist DoubleVerify (DV) has identified a new bot network specifically targeting Connected TV (CTV) devices. DV uncovered the botnet after the company saw a 40 per cent spike in traffic from CTV devices, marking the first direct, scaled botnet attack that DV has flagged in the CTV environment. The […]