Big brand budgets and quadrennial events such as the Olympics, European Football Championship and US Presidential Election will drive 2016’s global advertising revenue growth to $532 billion (€508bn) according to findings from critical information, analytics and solutions source IHS Markit’s annual Global Advertising Trends report. “The advertising industry is about to turn the corner thanks […]
Simon Creasey is leaving Sky after 10 years in various executive roles with the pay-TV giant. Creasey is responsible for launching Sky’s OTT service Now TV, and has recently held the title of director of the company’s download-to-own Sky Store. Creasey will leave Sky in February to become chief marketing officer at cycling apparel business […]
India’s officially recognised (by regulator TRAI) DTH active pay-TV subscribers grew in the summer quarter (July-September 2016) by 1.4 million (2.31 per cent) to an impressive 61.9 million. That’s all good news. But the bad news is that India’s ‘inactive’ subscribers grew at a faster rate, by 2.68 million to 32.71 million (a 5.41 per […]
US advertisers invested $17.6 billion (€16.8bn) in digital advertising in the third quarter of 2016, according to the latest IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report from IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) and prepared by PwC US. This marks the highest third quarter for digital advertising spending on record, and represents a 20 per cent increase over the […]
The South Korean government is planning to deregulate the domestic pay-TV industry to facilitate mergers and acquisitions among cable TV, satellite broadcasting and IPTV service providers with the intention of enhancing their competitiveness in the global market. The Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning said that it would apply the same regulation to the […]
Pakistan’s Lahore High Court has ruled that a recent auction of DTH licences, carried out by the country’s PEMRA regulator, is not valid and must be reheld. Certain broadcasters were barred from bidding in the auction which took place on November 23rd. Three companies were awarded licences (Mag Entertainment, Shahzad Sky and Startimes Communications) but […]
Premium entertainment streaming service Hulu has reached its first licensing agreement for theatrical features with The Walt Disney Studios. The new, multi-year deal grants Hulu the exclusive subscription video on-demand rights to a collection of hit movies and family favourites from Disney’s library of blockbuster films. Through the agreement, Hulu becomes the exclusive subscription video […]
Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar 21, initially due for launch almost a year ago aboard a giant Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and then expected to be orbited just over Christmas (on December 28th), is still awaiting launch. The satellite was expected to enter service last summer. The S-band satellite was officially obliged to […]
NexStreaming has announced that its flagship product, NexPlayer SDK is now pre-integrated to support Yospace’s Dynamic Ad Insertion platform. From now on, video service providers and broadcasters will be able to monetise their video apps and ensure their viewers enjoy the best user experience and even easier implementation, thanks to this pre-integration of the two […]
Italy’s comms watchdog, the Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (AGCom), has confirmed that it is to open an investigation into French media group Vivendi’s shareholdings in Italian broadcaster Mediaset. Mediaset had sought the Authority’s intervention submitting a complaint to AGCom highlighting the “illegality” of Vivendi’s conduct which it contended was in violation of sector […]