Yospace and MTM have announced a new research programme exploring the evolution of the linear and live video streaming market across Europe. “We have seen a leap forward in the adoption of dynamic ad insertion over the last few years, but we’re only in the foothills in terms of the full revenue potential,” said Tim […]
The Dark Crystal, a cult movie from the 80s, is set for a return on Netflix, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance will be a 10-episode series serving as a prequel to the 1982 film. The series will be shot in the UK, and will star an ensemble of fantastical, state-of-the-art creatures created by The […]
US pay-TV provider DISH has launched a Spanish-language customer service app, with easy access to a variety of account-related services from a smartphone or tablet. The announcement comes as DishLATINO also unveils a new Spanish-language user interface for the Hopper DVR, Joey and Wally set-top boxes. “With an estimated 71 per cent of US Hispanics […]
Podcast advertising is reaching a targeted audience of highly-engaged and influenced listeners – with a quarter of listeners saying they would be ‘more likely’ to buy a product recommended by a podcast host. In a survey of 2,646 UK podcast listeners by audioBoom, 25 per cent said they were ‘more likely’ to purchase a product […]
The Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT) has welcomed the European Parliament’s adoption of the proposal for a regulation on cross-border portability. Once in effect, the regulation will ensure that online content service subscribers in the Union, which are delivered on a portable basis, can receive these services when temporarily present in another Member […]
Fox has announced that Roger Ailes founder, and until recently chairman and CEO of Fox News, has died at the age of 77. Ailes resigned from Fox in summer 2016 in the wake of former Fox News Channel Host Gretchen Carlson’s sexual harassment lawsuit against him. Ailes had denied the allegations. In a statement to […]
Vodafone Spain has reached a deal with Sony Pictures and Paramount to broadcast their latest blockbuster movies in 4K. Subscribers to Vodafone will be able to watch the 4K movies on VoD, with the first available titles including Passengers, Trainspotting 2 and Smurfs: The Lost Village, among others. The Sony Pictures catalogue is composed of […]
Japanese media giant SoftBank has helped Intelsat sweeten its proposed debt-swap by a small amount in its drive to merge with Jersey-based OneWeb. SoftBank will put in a minuscule extra $61.6 million, which might sound a lot, but doesn’t add up to much when the total pitched by SoftBank now on the table is $1.79 […]
A Soyuz rocket, part of the Arianespace fleet, successfully launched SES-15 from French Guiana on time (at 07.42 EDT) May 18th and from where it will start its slow but steady journey to its orbital slot. The ‘slow but steady’ explanation does not apply to the actual launch which was flawless and saw the spacecraft […]
Critical information, analytics and solutions specialist IHS Markit expects total consumer spending on home video in Western Europe to increase with a CAGR of 3.5 per cent per year, to reach €8.7 billion by 2020. The market demonstrated confident expansion over 2016 at 2.6 per cent, reaching €7.9 billion. The home video sector is defined […]