French broadcasting group France Télévisions and global media solutions provider Globecast have signed a five-year deal to renew their partnership to bring iconic cycling events, including the Tour de France, to screens. This year’s Tour starts on July 2nd. France Télévisions has partnered with Globecast for the latter to supply comprehensive transmission services. This multi-year […]
Netflix is set to host a remake of the 1960s sci-fi TV show Lost In Space after ordering a 10-episode series. “The original series so deftly captured both drama and comedy, and that made it very appealing to a broad audience,” Netflix vice president Cindy Holland told Variety. “The current creative team’s reimagining of the […]
Research from the EBU’s Media Intelligence Service (MIS) shows that SVoD subscribers in Europe grew 56 per cent in just one year between 2014 and 2015, and are expected to reach 50 million homes by 2020. The report – Market Insights: SVoD in Europe – shows
Speaking at the annual Nielsen Consumer 360 event, the Council for Research Excellence (CRE) unveiled findings from a new platform usage study that show TV outperforming computer, smartphone and tablet in viewer ad attention and recall. The study, conducted by Hub Entertainment Research, was
Often criticised in the past for its reliance on deferred ‘as-live’ coverage of previous Olympic Games, the networks and digital platforms of NBCUniversal are taking advantage of a more favourable time zone to present an unprecedented 6,755 hours of programming for the Games of the XXXI Olympiad from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this August. NBC […]
Virtual Reality is becoming part of the furniture of all media business conversations in the way that 4K did three or four years ago and 3D did seven or eight years ago. Which one will VR go on to resemble – the one that is becoming a standard for TV and marks the beginning of […]
The new version of M6’s replay service 6play now has 10 million registered users, some six months after being relaunched. Its audience is an average of 110 million views each month across all screens, which is a 50 per cent growth from December 2015 to May 2016. The recent launch of new service Refresh, that […]
Americans want cable TV providers to improve customer service and meet the high standards set by progressive Internet TV players, according to research commissioned by pay-TV subscription, billing and CRM specialist Paywizard. Americans are drawn to the next level of customer service that companies such as Netflix and Amazon are providing, characterised by features such […]
Naspers, the parent company of Multichoice and DStv, is freezing pay-TV prices across Africa. The decision, announced by Naspers’s CEO Bob van Dijk, is blamed on a mounting number of subscribers who are either churning their subscription or trading down to lower tiers. Naspers results, released last Friday show that 288,000 subs have bailed out. […]
AdMore, the US automated TV advertising platform, has formed a partnership with Videology, a software provider for converged TV and video advertising, to give Videology’s software users access to AdMore TV inventory inclusive of national broadcast, more than 1,200 local and cable affiliates through Videology’s DETV product. Combining AdMore’s 100+ million TV homes with Videology’s […]