Content and consumer company in Southeast Asia, Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad (Astro) continues to strengthen and grow its content creation partnerships with renowned content producers and filmmakers to produce and distribute Asian-themed originals. Henry Tan, Chief Operating Officer of Astro said, “It is our intent to be a key player in the Asian content space. […]
Amazon Prime Video has announced August 25th as the premiere date for the highly-anticipated superhero comedy series The Tick starring comedy legend Peter Serafinowicz as “The Tick”. The Tick will premiere in the UK and US on Amazon Prime Video simulataneously and will be available globally on Prime Video. The series is created by executive producer and original […]
Concurrent, a global player in storage, protection, transformation, and delivery of visual assets announces the availability of Origin Release 3, offering video service providers the most comprehensive origin platform for ingesting, hosting, distributing, and serving video content to any device, any time, over any network, for content service providers. Concurrent’s Origin Release 3 adds several […]
Netflix is to introduce original content in China in a licensing deal with local video streaming service iQiyi.com, says the US company. Netflix has struggled to break into the Chinese market, where streaming services are subject to strict data storage regulations and foreign films and television are routinely censored. In October CEO Reed Hastings said […]
Adobe has released its State of Digital Video report, including data from more than four billion TV Everywhere authentications in North America and more than 300 sites and apps. Key findings from
Addressable TV advertising has doubled in the past year, according to various industry sources, thanks in large part to an influx of advertisers that are placing targeted ads for brand awareness as much as for sales promotion – the value most readily ascribed to the medium. And now they want more. A study by Advertiser […]
Ericsson’s net loss grew to SEK 10.9 billion (€1.13bn) for the first quarter, as the company took on restructuring charges. The result included SEK 8.4 billion in provisions on customer contracts, SEK 3.3 billion in asset writedowns and SEK 1.7 billion in restructuring charges. In the year-earlier period, Ericsson still had a net profit of […]
Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros, one of its accusers in the sexual harassment controversy, is now accusing it of a “criminal scheme” involving what she claims were illegal electronic surveillance and online harassment. In a complaint filed in a Manhattan federal court, Tantaros claims that Fox monitored her emails and listened to phone calls, […]
India, and its near-1000 TV channels, needs more DTH satellite capacity. The nation’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is promising three new satellites will be launched during the first-half of the 2018 financial year (GSAT 11, 17 and 19) according to the Department of Space’s statement to a parliamentary special committee on science. India’s Minister of […]
Almost a year to the day that Disney Media Networks Co-Chair and Disney|ABC Television Group President Ben Sherwood made the announcement during his 2016 NAB Show keynote of a landmark Clearinghouse initiative that jumpstarts digital distribution options for its affiliates, Disney|ABC Television Group is announcing that it has signed more than 160 stations – including […]