Data analytics firm Parrot Analytics it will provide entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) with global analytics data and solutions with insights on worldwide audience demand for entertainment content. This advanced dataset, which collects data from social media, video streaming, peer-to-peer protocols, photo sharing, blogging and research platforms, creates a holistic content demand […]
AT&T and Hulu have agreed a deal which sees AT&T sell its minority stake in Hulu back to the streaming video joint venture. The transaction valued Hulu at $15 billion (€13.2bn), with AT&T’s 9.5 per cent interest valued at $1.43 billion. The transaction did not require any governmental or other third-party approvals and was simultaneously […]
FreeWheel, a Comcast company and advertising management solution, has published its Q4 2018 Video Marketplace Report (previously the Video Monetisation Report), which shows the line between linear and digital TV is increasingly disappearing, as the TV and premium video landscape evolves. In Europe, confidence in premium video continues to grow, with overall ad views in […]
Forty-one per cent of Britons have admitted to avoiding using social media during the course of Monday April 15th in order to evade Game of Thrones spoilers and one in 20 have deactivated their accounts completely. The team behind www.MoneySavingHeroes.co.uk conducted the short survey to find out the lengths Britons will go to in order […]
Following the unveiling of Disney’s new streaming service, Bea Alonso, Director of Global Product Marketing at Ooyala, has shared her thoughts on the importance of the supply chain to the platform’s success. Alonso said: “This is the first big move in the content arms race currently underway in the industry. To date this has been […]
SpaceX lost a core rocket on April 15th. The rocket fell overboard from its floating drone barge in rough Atlantic seas off Florida. The rocket had formed the central portion of a 3-rocket assembly which launched Arabsat 6A last week, and had landed on the barge in a textbook operation. The two side boosters, themselves […]
A Spanish court – Audiencia Provincial de Madrid – has ruled that media group Prisa, former owner of Canal Plus, must pay €51 million to TV group Mediapro for damages in the so-called TV football war. The conflict, which took place way back in 2007, saw Prisa accuse Mediapro of breaking a contract and it […]
The Council of the European Union has given the green light to the new Copyright Directive which the European Commission says will bring concrete benefits to citizens, the creative sectors, the press, researchers, educators, and cultural heritage institutions. The reform will adapt copyright rules to today’s world, where music streaming services, video-on-demand platforms, news aggregators […]
The sale of Mediaset’s pay-TV services and technology unit R2 to Sky Italia has fallen through. According to a statement issued by both broadcasters, the decision not to go-ahead with the deal follows the investigation of the Italian Antitrust Authority, from which has emerged that the body is unlikely to grant an unconditional authorization. The […]
The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €150 million Spanish aid scheme to support households that would otherwise lose television reception after the migration of digital terrestrial TV signal transmission from the 694-790 MHz frequency band to lower frequencies. This migration follows a Decision of the European Parliament and the Council […]