SVoD service Walter Presents, which has won plaudits and a loyal following for delivering foreign-language dramas to UK, US and Australian audiences, will be teaming up with Discovery Italia, in the next stage of a planned global roll out, to bring its award-winning dramas to Italian audiences from September 2018. Discovery Italia will now also […]
hayu, an NBCUniversal SVoD service, has revealed plans to launch in Canada within 2018. This strategic territory expansion for the all-reality service, will extend the number of hayu subscriber markets to eight countries: hayu has been available in the UK, Ireland and Australia since March 2016 and in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark since November […]
The UK’s Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has submitted its final report on 21st Century Fox’s bid to buy the 61 per cent of Sky it does not already own to Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Hancock now has 30 working days to deliver his final ruling on the […]
A new Regional public TV broadcaster, À Punt, has launched in Spain covering the Comunidad Valenciana in the east of the country. With public funding of €55 million, the channel plans to reach a share of 8 per cent within three years – the average audience share reached by all 13 of the current regional […]
Back on January 1st Intelsat adopted the ASC 606 accounting rules* which make absolute like-for-like comparisons with 2016’s numbers slightly difficult. This year’s Q1 numbers saw total revenue of $544 million, an increase of $5 million or 1 per cent as compared to the first quarter of 2017. Total revenue excluding the effects of ASC […]
Fifty-nine per cent of marketers’ digital advertising budgets are currently allocated to digital video, a consistent climb in share since 2016, according to the Digital Content NewFronts: 2018 Video Ad Spend Study, released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Furthering the trend, more than
Kantar Media, a global player in media intelligence, has published the second iteration of its annual DIMENSION report. The study reveals that while consumer attitudes towards advertising have stayed consistent over the last year, there remains an opportunity for marketers to improve creativity and holistic cross-platform measurement. DIMENSION explores the
Amazon-owned Jeff Bezos is not planning to deliver customer orders by rocket anytime soon, but his Blue Origin family of rockets will add a well-funded private enterprise competitor to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. On April 29th a Blue Origin ‘New Shepard’ reusable rocket lifted a ‘crew’ of a mannequin plus experimental packages to a height of […]
SpotX, the global video advertising and monetisation platform, has announced it will be leveraging total and incremental campaign reach reporting that offers demographic breakouts based on Nielsen’s audience data for connected TV (CTV) in the US. This marks the first time a digital supply-side platform (SSP) has leveraged Nielsen analytics for CTV. SpotX will help […]
According to findings from Hub Entertainment Research’s What’s TV Worth, the firm’s annual study on the perceived value of TV services, there is a large gap in perceived value between online TV services and traditional cable, satellite or fibre optic services. Highlights from the study: