Supponor, a global player in sports virtual advertising technology, has announced two appointments to its senior leadership team. These key new hires will help scale the company to meet the increasing demands for virtual advertising, and deliver a raft of new solutions in the coming months. Ross Hair joins Supponor as Managing Director and will […]
SPI / Filmbox Hungary and PR-Telecom have extended their long-term cooperation contract for two more years. The deal takes the agreement into its 9th year. The signed partnership is for the period between January 1st 2019 and December 31st 2020. The provider makes available FilmBox Basic, FilmBox Premium, FilmBox Plus, FilmBox Family, FilmBox Extra HD […]
Fashion designer Victoria Beckham has announced she is launching her own YouTube channel. The former Spice Girl – and wife of retired footballer David Beckham – said the channel will offer beauty tutorials, styling tips and more. In a video posted on Twitter, Beckham said: “I am starting my own YouTube channel, that will be […]
Italy has seen a huge take-up in SVoD services, rising from 2.3 million subscribers in June 2017 to 5.2 million in 2018. This includes services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Timvision, Now TV (Sky Italia), Infinity (Mediaset) and Eurosport Player. Although figures for individual operators are not provided, it is widely believed that the […]
Hulu, the US streaming service owned by Disney, Fox, Comcast and Time Warner, could be worth as much as $9.26 billion (€8.14bn) to the partners led by Walt Disney Co once it wraps the $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox early next year, and in which Disney will then hold a 60 per cent […]
Vodafone Spain plans to dismiss 1,000 staff from its current 5,000 workforce as it seeks to stay afloat in the country’s competitive pay-TV market. According to El Pais, the redundancy plan will be negotiated with the trade unions. To this end, the company will set a negotiation committee to implement the plan. The redundancy plan […]
Apple could be preparing to launch a TV dongle according to reports, giving more users access to its new streaming service. Apple already has Apple TV on the market – a set-top streaming device – but now seems primed to launch a portable device similar to Google Chomecast and Amazon Fire TV, which have both proven hugely […]
The six French PSB groups – France Télévisions, Radio France, France Medias Monde, TV5Monde, Arte and INA – have partnered to deliver a cultural social network called Culture Prime. The 100 per cent digital offering will offer around 15 to 25 original short form videos each week produced by each of the partners in association […]
The success of Black Friday is often said to be a strong indicator of the overall sales forecast for the upcoming peak season. But for shopping channels, with a key proposition that offers enticing deals all year round, Black Friday may appear somewhat limited as a chance to boost sales. How do TV shopping channels […]
South Africa FTA satellite operator OpenView has sold almost 1.5 million set-top boxes, according to their latest results. The total is an increase of some 42 per cent in the past 12 months. OpenView is backed by the broadcaster e.tv (itself owned 67.7 percent by eMedia Investments) and which also operates a 24-hour news channel […]