With Discovery and its leading sports brand Eurosport on track to deliver the Olympic Winter Games to more people, across more screens than ever before, the broadcaster has developed a first-of-its kind methodology to measure audience behaviour across Europe. Discovery has unveiled three new metrics, which together will capture ‘Total Video’ – the new ‘TV’—across […]
Matrix Solutions, the global ad sales platform built for media, has released its first annual Advertising Spend Report – providing insights derived from the activity of more than 10,000 active users within media ad sales teams from 2016 to 2017. “According to our data, overall ad spend remained relatively flat from 2016 to 2017, which […]
The National Football League (NFL), America’s most popular sports league, has reached an agreement with FOX Sports to broadcast the next five seasons of Thursday Night Football beginning with the 2018 season. “This agreement is the culmination of over 10 years of strategic growth around Thursday Night Football, a period during which this property has […]
Luxembourg’s Grand Duke, Prince Guillaume and his wife Stephanie, were at Cape Canaveral Wednesday evening, along with Luxembourg’s prime minister Xavier Bettel, to watch SpaceX’s flawless launch of GovSat-1 (also known as SES-16) aboard a previously flown (“flight tested”) Falcon 9 rocket. Lift-off from the Cape’s Launch Complex 40 took place at 16:25 Eastern Time […]
Connekt, the AI-driven technology company transforming TV advertising for the connected world, is preparing for remote-less future by adding voice capabilities to its linear TV ad engagement solution. Now, viewers with Google Home devices can interact with brands that are featured on TV and purchase goods using only their voices. “Voice is the new UI, […]
Ericsson has concluded its major review of its broadcast and media solutions businesses. Having separated broadcast into Red Bee Media – which remains an Ericsson company – it is offloading 51 per cent of Media Solutions to One Equity with all assets and employees moving across to a new entity. In the review, Ericsson said […]
Leading Italian broadcasters RAI, Mediaset, Sky Italia and Discovery Italia have secured important deals for major sporting events. After six years, the UEFA Champions League returns to RAI with live and exclusive coverage of the best match of Italian teams on Wednesdays during 2018-2019. Thanks to a deal with Sky Italia, the holder of the […]
In a move that sees it further expand into the media and entertainment business, communications and media software and services provider Amdocs has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vubiquity, a leading provider of premium content services and technology solutions, subject to customary closing conditions. The two companies say they are excited about the […]
Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange are hiking the prices of their convergent packages in an attempt to get higher revenues. The combination of low cost promotions and the high bill they’re paying for football TV rights is driving them down a dead end in terms of profitability. To mitigate this, they increasing prices by up to […]
Research on the pay-TV channel ecosystem shows India powering revenue and profit growth for regional pay-TV broadcasters in Asia Pacific. Revenue for pay-TV channel groups owned by global media companies expanded by 4 per cent in 2017 to reach around $5 billion (€4bn) across the region, while EBITDA grew 9 per cent Y/Y to reach […]