Edge Investments, the specialist investment house focused on the creative industries sector, in particular media and entertainment, has taken a minority stake in Dial Square 86, the holding company for The RightsXchange (TRX). TRX is an online deal-making platform for TV rights licensing. It enables TV programme buyers to search for content, access instant rights […]
Social media could be a dying trend, with a study rom Digital Awareness UK releavling that nearly two-thirds of school pupils would not care if social media did not exist, a study found. Some 71 per cent of survey respondents also said they had taken digital detox breaks to escape from social media. More than […]
Traditional media still takes the majority of ad spend in India, but mobile platforms are becoming increasingly popular with advertisers. This year, mobile ad spending in India is expected to increase by 85 per cent, which will help boost overall digital ad spend to $1.21 billion, according to eMarketer’s latest media ad spend forecast. Further […]
BT and AMC have announced that viewers will be able to watch AMC free of charge from October 28th to November 5th via the Sky digital satellite platform. Viewers can catch a whole host of series marathons as well as the exclusive UK premiere of the new drama series Snatch starring Rupert Grint on October […]
SpaceX has this week readied and test-fired one of its ‘pre-flown’ and ‘flight-tested’ Falcon 9 rockets in preparation for a launch currently scheduled for October 7th at 6.35pm Florida-time. SpaceX’s brief is to launch a satellite for its joint-venture clients, SES and Echostar. Described as a ‘condo-sat’, the satellite will operate from a single orbital […]
KT Skylife, the largest satellite broadcasting operator in South Korea, has selected the Alticast Ambient TV platform as the foundation for TELEBEE, a new end-to-end turnkey OTT service to rival Netflix, Hulu and the like. Ambient TV has been specifically designed to allow fully-featured OTT services that can attract subscribers and generate revenue across all […]
Channel 2 News, Israel’s leading news broadcaster, has partnered with Elastic Media, a media-tech company, to deliver their broadcasts to smartphone and tablet devices in a new, fully personalised, interactive viewing experience dubbed “Touchable TV”. Itay Filiba, Head of Digital Products at Channel 2 News, said: “We produce more than 6 different live TV shows […]
Charles Rivkin, CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has warned US trade representatives of what he describes as an emerging global threat of streaming piracy which is enabled by piracy devices preloaded with software to illicitly stream movies and television programming, posing a “significant and evolving challenge”. In formal comments submitted to […]
Sky Ireland has warned it will not carry RTÉ content on its platform if the State broadcaster decides to charge a fee for its channels. Findings in a report commissioned by RTÉ indicated that the broadcaster could earn up to €19 million by charging Sky alone for using its bouquet of channels. However, David Wheeldon , […]
With Netflix planning to spend some $7 billion on content next year, HBO CEO Richard Plepler has indicated they are in no hurry to match the streaming giant’s spending power. “More is not better, only better is better,” Plepler said, speaking on CNBC’s Power Lunch. “It is very hard to create outstanding content, and we […]