Modern Times Group (MTG) has reported Q2 sales of SEK 4,246 million (€444.15m) with 5 per cent organic growth. The Swedish broadcasting group operating income up 9 per cent to SEK 391 million. President & CEO Jørgen Madsen Lindemann commented: “This was the fourth consecutive quarter of at least 5 per cent organic sales growth, […]
The return of Jane Campion’s acclaimed series Top Of The Lake will be released as a full series on BBC iPlayer. All six episodes of the drama will be available to download or stream on BBC iPlayer from July 27th immediately after it premieres on BBC Two. Top Of The Lake: China Girl is a […]
SpotX, the video ad serving platform, has been appointed as the ad serving infrastructure for TVPlayer across all its inventory, including connected TV, desktop and smartphones. Advertisers and their agencies can now target TVPlayer’s one million-strong audience viewing 106 UK television channels using data-driven buying. TVPlayer enables viewers to watch the best free-to-air UK TV […]
Qwest TV brings together two generations of committed music lovers who share a single passion: jazz. This joint Franco-American collaboration between the legendary Quincy Jones and Reza Ackbaraly has given birth an SVoD platform dedicated to jazz and jazz-inspired music forms. Launching in the US autumn 2017, subscribers to Qwest TV will choose when and […]
Sky Deutschland has chosen Yospace’s dynamic ad insertion platform to monetise live channels on its TV Everywhere service Sky Go. The system allows addressable advertising to be served across Sky Deutschland’s suite of live sports coverage, including The Bundesliga and UEFA Champions League. Boris Haug, Vice President Product, Brand Solutions & Operations of Sky Media, […]
Egypt’s Competition Authority (ECA) has repeated that Qatar-based beIN Sports cannot operate or deliver its sports transmissions over Egypt. Currently, Egypt is in a diplomatic dispute with Qatar, which has not helped the situation but in fact the problems with beIN Sports go back to the earlier part of the year, and concerns access to […]
Online video viewing will rise 20 per cent in 2017, according to Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2017. Global consumers will spend an average of 47.4 minutes a day viewing videos online this year, up from 39.6 minutes in 2016. This increase will be driven by a
ITV has confirmed that Carolyn McCall is to join the Board as Chief Executive. She joins ITV from easyJet where she has been Chief Executive for seven years. Prior to easyJet, McCall was Group Chief Executive of the Guardian Media Group. Peter Bazalgette, Chairman of ITV, said: “In a very impressive field of high calibre […]
US telco giant AT&T will run its DirecTV pay-TV arm as a separate division following on from its $85 billion (€74bn) acquisition of Time Warner’s media assets. According to reports. The Time Warner purchase has not yet formally closed, but is expected to wrap by the end of the year. Part of the package being […]
Middle East & North Africa OTT TV episodes and movies will generate revenues of $1.75 billion (€1.53bn) by 2022; more than quadruple the $428 million recorded in 2016, according to a report from Digital TV Research. According to the Middle East and North Africa OTT TV & Video Forecasts report, SVoD’s dominance