comScore, a partner for planning, transacting, and evaluating media across platforms, has announced substantial enhancements to its custom reporting for mobile, providing clients with deeper insight into an increasingly competitive mobile landscape. The new capabilities are based on a massive measurement sample and will afford customers greater visibility into consumer engagement with content, products and […]
Tru Optik, the audience intelligence and data-management platform across OTT and connected TV (CTV), and Beachfront, the independent video supply monetisation company across CTV, desktop and mobile devices, have announced a partnership allowing publishers and device manufacturers to pre-segment and validate audience-based inventory at scale across OTT and CTV. Beachfront, which has done extensive work […]
Sky Group Chief Executive Jeremy Darroch has declared the multiplay broadcaster’s Full Year to June 30th 2018 as “exceptional”, with financial and operating results showing a 5 per cent increase in like-for-like revenue to £13.6 billion (€15.3bn), an 11 per cent increase in Established Business EBITDA to £2.5 billion; 9 per cent increase in EBITDA, […]
Virgin Media customers say they are more likely to cancel their TV subscriptions because of the withdrawal of the UKTV channels, according to independent research conducted by research firm Kantar TNS, which provides evidence
Comcast Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Brian Roberts has admitted that the communications giant dropped out of the battle to acquire a range of 21st Century Fox assets in competition with Disney because the price was becoming too high to build shareholder value. Speaking on Comcast’s Q2 2018 Earnings Conference Call, Roberts admitted to analysts […]
Consumers give higher negative ratings to traditional cable, satellite and IPTV pay-TV operators than online video-on-demand (VoD) providers such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu at every stage of the customer journey, according to new research from subscription, billing and customer relationship management (CRM) specialist Paywizard. Nonetheless, the figures reveal that over-the-top (OTT) subscription services also […]
According to research by analyst firm The Diffusion Group (TDG), 79 per cent of Amazon Prime users cite free shipping as the primary reason they subscribe to the service. Only 11 per cent cite Prime Video, with a collective 10 per cent citing Prime Music, Photos, Reading, Twitch, or other benefits. More than half of […]
Spain’s dominant telcos – Telefonica, Orange and Vodafone – have taken all the 5G spectrum on auction in Spain for €437 million, four times more than the initial price. MásMóvil withdrew from the auction by acquiring directly 80 MHz from other operators. Vodafone has bought 90 MHz of the 5G spectrum for €198.1 million, followed […]
Chip-set giant Qualcomm has abandoned its proposed acquisition of Dutch rival NXP Semiconductors. The deal has been 20 months in progress and would have been the largest-ever in the semiconductor sector, but it had emerged that China’s regulators were not in favour. Qualcomm is the world’s largest maker of chipsets for mobile phones. A successful […]
Australia’s Nine Entertainment and Fairfax Media Limited have entered into a Scheme Implementation Agreement under which the companies will merge to establish Nine as one of Australia’s leading independent media companies. The Proposed Transaction will, subject to required approvals, be implemented by Nine acquiring all Fairfax shares in a deal valued at A$4 billion (€2.5bn). […]