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WSC Sports signs Sky Deutschland deal

WSC Sports has signed multi-year partnership with Sky Deutschland, that will see the media company deploy WSC Sports’ AI-driven technology across a host of premium sports properties. The collaboration between the specialist in AI-powered sports content and one of the leading entertainment providers in Germany aims to redefine the way sports fans engage with Sky […]

October 25, 2023

Thuraya, nybl partnership

Thuraya Telecommunications Company, the mobility arm of the UAE satellite solutions provider, Al Yah Satellite Communications Company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with nybl, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) platform with headquarters in the UAE. The agreement sets out the framework for introducing AI and ML-driven solutions over Thuraya and […]

October 25, 2023

Plume adds App Priority; exec appointments

Network services and consumer experience pioneer Plume has introduced new AI-driven personalisation features within its HomePass app. App Priority from Plume allows users to prioritise their own application-level traffic and ensure peak performance via a number of options: through general application categories across the home, through applications running on individual devices, or through applications being […]

October 24, 2023

Forecast: Italy E&M sector at €42bn by 2027

The Entertainment and Media (E&M) sector in Italy is worth over €35.9 billion, a value higher than pre-pandemic levels, thanks to a 3.7 per cent growth in 2022, according to research by PwC. The research analysed the performance of the 13 main segments – from cinema to music-radio-podcast, from video to books, and then periodicals, […]

October 20, 2023

Forecast: Smart home product revenue at $12.6bn in 2027

Parks Associates’ research study, Interoperability & Generative AI: Next Generation Smart Home UI, forecasts the annual revenues from core smart home product categories will be $12.6 billion (€11.9bn) in 2027. The report highlights the current state of the smart home market and analyses current efforts, including Matter and generative AI, designed to enable a unified […]

October 18, 2023

Report: FAST channels, generative AI trend in TV market

The European TV market is in a state of flux, with traditional pay-TV and advertising losing ground to streaming services, according to the XXI edition of the annual Turning Digital report from Rome-based ITMedia Consulting. The report recorded a slowdown in the growth of the TV market in Europe in 2022, after the rise in […]

October 11, 2023From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Research: Human touch preferred in game design

The latest edition of Hub Entertainment Research’s Gaming 360 study shows that even as AI (artificial intelligence) becomes a more powerful tool in media, gamers are skeptical about using it in the creative elements of game design. Asked how they feel in general about the use of AI in creating video games, nearly half (47 […]

October 11, 2023

ITV upgrades ACT tool to identify emotions

ITV is launching a newly upgraded development of its Automated Contextual Targeting (ACT) tool, through a partnership with search intelligence platform Captify. ITV will use Captify’s advanced contextual classification technology to identify certain types of moments, themes and emotions during ITV programmes for advertiser targeting. Developed by ITV’s AdLabs, this next stage of ACT is […]

October 10, 2023

ThinkAdvertising audiences on AWS Clean Rooms

ThinkAnalytics, specialists in AI-based content discovery, viewer data insights and targeted advertising, has announced the launch of its targeted contextual advertising solution, ThinkAdvertising, on AWS Clean Rooms from Amazon Web Services (AWS), making it seamless for publishers to activate cross-channel audience segments for programmatic advertising. AWS Clean Rooms helps customers and their partners securely collaborate […]

October 10, 2023

Amplified Intelligence partners with Chalice

Amplified Intelligence, a source for attention measurement, has partnered with Chalice Custom Algorithms – an AI application backed by TD7, The TradeDesk’s investment arm – to bring together real human attention data and smart bidding technology. The partnership seeks to help media buyers boost ROI and cut wastage by instantly directing ad spend to high-engagement […]

October 9, 2023