92 per cent of European consumers agree that changes need to be made to current online video advertising in order to improve the viewer experience, according to a survey of 4,000 consumers in the UK, France and Germany, which was commissioned by online video solutions provider, Brightcove. When asked to pinpoint their specific objections to […]
Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president, speaking at Euroconsult’s Paris Space Business Week, told delegates that despite not yet knowing what caused he September 1st ‘fireball’ anomaly, she was extremely hopeful that by November the rocket launch company would be back in business. “We have not got to the root cause just yet, but it is just […]
The UK will remain a market leader in programmatic digital display ad spending, and this year eMarketer expects advertisers to spend £2.67 billion (€3.13bn) on programmatic trading, up 44 per cent from last year. And further growth is anticipated: This year, programmatically traded ads will account for 70 per cent of all UK digital display […]
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has confirmed that he will build a family of rockets, called ‘New Glenn’, which will be similar in concept to the reusable rockets already conceived by SpaceX and planned by Arianespace. The suite of rockets is named in honour of John Glenn, the first-ever American to orbit the Earth. The massive […]
Discovery Italia has reported €8.1 million in losses at its general entertainment terrestrial TV channel Nove in Italy. Acquired at the beginning of 2015 from local media group Espresso, Nove (formerly Deejay Television/All Music) had revenues of €11.2 million and expenses of €19.2 million last year. The value of the net assets were negative for […]
Hollywood studio Lionsgate and Spanish-language network Univision Communications have revealed plans to launch a premium subscription service for Hispanic audiences in the US. Lionsgate head Jon Feltheimer and Univision president Randy Falco said in a joint statement the SVoD service would launch early next year. They described the venture as “the first premium SVoD movie […]
Euroconsult’s latest data on the value of the satellite construction industry says that over the next 10 years some 1450 satellites are due to be built, and with a combined value of some $250 billion (€222.6bn). According to the 19th edition of the report Satellites to be Built & Launched (over the next ten years), […]
Euroconsult’s Paris Business Week saw Boeing confirm it was to build a broadband satellite for the Cayman Islands. GiSAT will provide broadcast and broadband capability to a targeted 35 sub-Saharan nations in Africa. GiSat will use Boeing’s tried and tested HS-702 model satellite for a private consortium based on the Cayman Islands. The satellite to […]
Pay-radio operator SiriusXM is being sued in a potential Class Action by people who paid for a “lifetime subscription” that turned out to be anything but, it is alleged. Paul Wright is the plaintiff in the action, filed September 12th in the US District Court for the Central District of California. Wright alleges that SiriusXM […]
Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has announced the launch of a new cloud-orchestrated Pop-Up Playout service, which will allow customers to quickly set up and distribute linear TV channels anytime, anywhere and for any duration. Answering an increasing market demand for virtualisation, the Pop-Up Playout service utilises public cloud technologies and software […]