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Media execs want more collaboration for localisation

The DPP, the media industry’s business network, released a new report to its members on the localisation and versioning processes required for the international distribution of content. Home Truths: The Localisation Challenge explores the relationships between media companies as they prepare content for global markets – and how those relationships expose the need for greater […]

November 4, 2019

AWS to open data centres in Spain

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon company, will open an infrastructure region in Spain. The new AWS Europe Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and will be AWS’s seventh region in Europe, joining existing regions in Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Stockholm, and the upcoming Milan region launching in early 2020. The Spain […]

November 4, 2019

Eutelsat hammered by profits warning

Eutelsat’s poor Q1 trading numbers announced after the close of the market on October 30th and a downward revision to its expected revenues over the next nine months resulted in a severe fall in its stock market share price in early trading October 31st. Eutelsat’s share price tumbled 11.83 per cent (€2.19) to €16.29 (and […]

October 31, 2019By Chris Forrester

Discovery, Comscore partnership

Discovery and Comscore, a partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media, has announced a number of multi-year strategic agreements for the use of Comscore’s audience measurement and consumer insights tools, as well as for a deeper partnership that will innovate the next generation of measurement capabilities. The agreements expand the partnership between the two companies and […]

October 29, 2019

LiveU expands streaming for South African horse racing

LiveU technology is being used to boost fan engagement across South Africa’s popular horse racing industry. Replacing traditional satellite, fibre and microwave technology, LiveU’s portable field units are being deployed to create live coverage from the race tracks, inside betting centres, and around award ceremonies and special events. Heading up this trend are Tellytrack Horseracing, […]

October 29, 2019

Maxar, Thales-Alenia now rival bidders

Reportedly Maxar Technologies and Thales-Alenia Space have scrubbed their joint-venture plan to bid for Ottawa-based Telesat’s mega-constellation satellite order. The pair were competing against Airbus Defence & Space for the order.  Now they will bid separately for the order for a 300-satellite Low Earth orbiting constellation, said to be worth around $3 billion to the […]

October 25, 2019By Chris Forrester

NBCUniversal signs on with ListenFirst

ListenFirst, the enterprise social analytics solution, has announced that NBCUniversal has chosen ListenFirst as one of its key partners for social analytics across its global brand portfolio of television networks, motion pictures, television stations, television operations, and theme parks. ListenFirst will streamline all of NBCUniversal’s social media data across more than 1,500 social handles into […]

October 23, 2019

Discovery selects Synamedia to support cloud transition

Synamedia, the independent video software provider, has announced that Discovery has chosen its virtualised Digital Content Manager (DCM) from its video network portfolio to increase operational efficiencies for its Asia Pacific distribution. A long-time Synamedia PowerVu customer, Discovery is centralising its Asia Pacific uplink compression systems to its Sterling ,Virginia broadcast center. The company is […]

October 22, 2019

Comscore measurement for Premion’s OTT

Comscore, a partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms, and Premion, a division of TEGNA and CTV/OTT advertising platform for local and regional US advertisers, has entered into an agreement for Comscore to be the measurement provider for Premion’s OTT offering. Part of TEGNA Marketing Solutions (TMS), Premion is an CTV/OTT advertising platform […]

October 22, 2019

TVSquared, Ampersand partner for always-on TV attribution

TVSquared, a global player in TV attribution, has partnered with Ampersand, the audience-based multi-screen TV advertising sales and technology company, to integrate always-on attribution reporting into Ampersand’s platform. Through TVSquared’s technology, exposure metrics can now be linked to observed consumer actions, bringing transparency and accountability to TV investments, and empowering Ampersand advertisers with campaign performance […]

October 22, 2019