Virgin TV, the UK pay-TV provider, has added an on demand library of films and shows through two Asian entertainment apps. The Desi App Pack, which Virgin TV customers can add to their package immediately, brings together two of India’s biggest entertainment apps – Eros Now and Voot – into an easy to access apps […]
OzTAM, the provider of official audience figures in Australia, has announced the introduction of demographic profiles to its Video Player Measurement (VPM) service. This enhancement means standard age/gender demographic reporting is now available for all content consumed on participating broadcasters’ VoD services, complementing the total audience reporting currently provided. These demographic profiles will now feature […]
TabMo’s demand side platform (DSP) Hawk claims it has become the only mobile-first platform to connect additional advertising channels. Advertisers can use one mobile DSP to run campaigns that display complementary messages to audiences across mobile, connected TV, digital out-of-home (DOOH) and programmatic audio. Hawk was built for programmatic mobile advertising; the new evolution of […]
TV4 has agreed an extension with Yospace to provide server-side ad insertion (SSAI) across its TV Everywhere service, TV4Play. TV4 was the first company to launch the technology in Sweden in 2014, initially using it to monetise VoD content before applying it to live channels, too. Yospace’s SSAI solution allows advertising to be stitched into […]
Confirming earlier rumours, the BBC and ITV have revealed they are in the concluding phase of talks to establish a strategic partnership to bring what they describe as “an exciting new streaming service” to UK audiences. Any content made exclusively available on the platform that was previously available on existing SVoD platforms will put the […]
The Spanish Administration will allocate €172 million to help Spaniards retune their antennas in the second digital migration. €150 million will be allocated to local communities to finance the adjustment of antennas and €22 million to operators to simulcast their transmissions. The State Secretary of Digital Advance, Francisco Polo, confirmed at MWC in Barcelona that […]
Bohemian Rhapsody is the champion on the Official Film Chart, climbing to Number 1 in the same week it picked up four Oscars at the 91st Academy Awards. OfficialCharts.com has also revealed that Bohemian Rhapsody is the UK’s fastest-selling digital download movie of all time, selling nearly 265,000 digital copies in its first eight days. […]
ITV has reported a rise in pre-tax profit as growth in online offset a decline in spot advertising revenues. However, eluding to Brexit uncertainty, the UK commercial broadcaster warned economic and political headwinds for the UK will have an effect on the advertising market. For the 12 months to December 31st 2018, pre-tax profit rose […]
SES has unveiledits 2018 results, and after three years of top line declines in some of its key divisions, CEO Steve Collar reported a return to group organic revenue growth of 1.9 percent. Importantly, SES said that it believed it is making “considerable progress” with its C-band initiative for the realignment of some 200 MHz […]
The Mexican video entertainment market saw steady 2 per cent growth in 2018. However, this doesn’t fully reflect the structural changes in the wider video landscape, according to the latest Video Insights report from Futuresource Consulting. Home video spend (DVD, Blu-ray, EST, SVoD & TVoD) grew 20 per cent in 2018 to 10.3 billion pesos. […]