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Tremor acquires Australia’s TVN

Tremor Video, the video marketplace elevating brand advertising effectiveness, has acquired Australian-based, TVN, a provider of programmatic video advertising solutions in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. This acquisition marks Tremor Video’s entrance into the APAC advertising market, following its significant investments in programmatic video over the past 18 months. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Sydney, […]

August 7, 2015

Quickflix MOU with Chinese content company

Having earlier in the week requested a stock trading halt as it continued negotiations regarding a “potential corporate transaction with an international party which may result in an acquisition”, Australian entertainment streaming service Quickflix has advised that it has entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding with an unnamed Shanghai-based film and television company to […]

August 5, 2015By Colin Mann

Quickflix ends Foxtel Presto reseller agreement

Troubled Australian entertainment streaming service Quickflix has advised the Australian Securities Exchange of the termination of its reseller agreement with fellow SVoD platform Foxtel Presto, saying that the conditions precedent to the Reseller Agreement have not been met. The pair agreed the deal mid-May 2015. Quickflix said that it is pursuing other opportunities in relation […]

August 4, 2015By Colin Mann

Sky acquires Viacom’s MTV Italia

Italian pay-TV operator Sky Italia has signed an agreement with Viacom International Media Networks for the acquisition of Nuova Società Televisiva Italiana, a company that operates the MTV Italia channel. Financial aspects of the transaction were not disclosed. The free-to-air TV channel is available on position 8 on the national DTT netork in Italy. The […]

August 3, 2015From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Altice increases Numericable-SFR stake

Multinational cable and telecommunications company Altice, founded by telecoms entrepreneur Patrick Drahi, has acquired 1,298,398 shares in French cable telco Numericable-SFR for some €64.6 million. Altice’s March 2015 acquisition of Vivendi’s 20 per cent stake in the operator gave it a 70.4 per cent holding. The additional block represents some 0.3 per cent of Numericable-SFR’s […]

August 3, 2015

Viacom Sky Italia channel boost

Further to Viacom International Media Networks’ (VIMN) deal with Sky Italia for the sale of its MTV Italia DTT channel to the pay-TV operator, it has extended its partnership with Sky, further enriching its offering of TV channels and multimedia content for Italian audiences. As part of a new multi-year arrangement with Sky Italia, Viacom […]

August 3, 2015

Quickflix in share trading halt amid potential acquisition

Australian entertainment streaming service Quickflix has requested that the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) allow it to remain in a trading halt as it continues negotiations regarding a “potential corporate transaction with an international party which may result in an acquisition”. In its request to the ASX, Quickflix says is expected that the voluntary suspension will […]

August 3, 2015By Colin Mann

NBCU to invest in BuzzFeed, Vox

NBCU poised to make investments in BuzzFeed and Vox, seeking to appeal to younger viewers who are abandoning traditional media, according to the NYT. NBCU, owned by Comcast, is reported to be close to investing $250 million in BuzzFeed, known for its trending quizzes and lists, with recent forays into news reporting. The deal would […]

July 31, 2015

Liberty Global increases ITV stake to 9.9%

Cable MSO Liberty Global has acquired 138.7 million shares in UK commercial broadcaster ITV plc, thereby increasing its existing stake to a total of 398.5 million shares in ITV or approximately 9.9 per cent of ITV’s ordinary shares outstanding. Liberty Global has at the same time nentered into a hedging transaction with respect to the […]

July 31, 2015

Civolution sells Teletrax to focus on content protection

Civolution, the specialist provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetising content, has sold its TV Analytics and TV Synced Ads business Teletrax to data science company 4C, enabling company management and its R&D resources to focus entirely on content protection through its NexGuard forensic watermarking business The acquisition of the Teletrax business […]

July 31, 2015By Colin Mann