INSIGHT TV, a UHD broadcaster and producer of native UHD HDR content covering action sports, entertainment, and lifestyle, has announced its first distribution deal in China with Belcor Media. INSIGHT TV’s UHD content will be available to Chinese audiences on a 24/7-basis, adding to the growing number of regions that have access to INSIGHT’s content. […]
Extreme Reach, the cloud technology platform for TV and video ad workflow and Talent & Rights management, has released a comprehensive new report illuminating just how cumbersome and inefficient it is for ad ops teams to find and prepare creative assets for video campaigns. In fact, 93 per cent of ad ops professionals on the […]
Vodafone and Huawei have conducted a successful field trial of Fixed Access Network Slicing. The virtual access network solution partitions a physical fibre to the home (FTTH) network into multiple virtual network slices, creating multi-tenancy virtualisation of the access network. This gives flexibility and full control for different operations teams (be they from different departments […]
Tootle has announced a seven-figure investment from Channel 4’s Commercial Growth Fund, striking an airtime-for-equity arrangement with the car-selling platform. As part of the investment, Tootle will be able to launch the television advertising campaign in return for the broadcaster taking a minority equity stake. Launched in 2015, Channel 4’s Commercial Growth Fund offers high […]
Intertrust, a provider of digital rights management and secure content delivery solutions, and Jadooz, a provider of Virtual Reality content, have announced a partnership to bring the first of its kind VR entertainment to cinemas in mid-size cities across India. Jadooz VR will use Intertrust Kiora, an all-in-one offline content delivery platform that will bring […]
ESPN has announced new roles for its senior leaders as it builds on the expansion and success of its domestic and global business. Mike Morrison, whose time with ESPN began with the EMEA business in 2007, has led ESPN’s businesses in Asia Pacific (APAC) since 2008. He will return to the U.S. in his new […]
The first domestic bids for the English Premier League football auction are scheduled to be tabled on February 8th, according to a report from equity analysts at Berenberg Bank. The bids will cover various options covering three seasons from 2019-2020. The bank is interested because of the potential impact the costs will have on Sky’s […]
According to the seventeenth edition of TMT Predictions 2018 from business advisory firm Deloitte, traditional TV viewing by 18-24 year-olds in the UK will decline by 10 per cent to 15 per cent in 2018 and 2019, but thereafter the rate of decline may lessen. “Many forces that distracted young people away from traditional TV, […]
YouTube is introducing tougher rules for publishers who want to monetise their videos on the platform. The Google-owned site has also announced that staff will now manually review all clips before they are added to a premium service that pairs big brand advertisers with popular content. The moves follow advertiser boycotts because of ‘extreme’ content […]
Amazon Studios has closed an exclusive two-year overall deal with Emmy-nominated writer and creator Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe). In addition to her personal deal, Horgan and co-founder Clelia Mountford’s entertainment company, Merman, also signed a first-look deal with Amazon Studios. Amazon Studios will get first-look rights to Merman concepts to which Horgan is attached and remake […]