Part 1 of the sixth and final season of Cobra Kai debuted atop Netflix’s English TV List in the week commencing July 15th with 14.8 million views. Part 2 of the celebrated series’ final season drops on November 15th, whilst Part 3 will arrive in 2025. Meanwhile all three seasons of Vikings: Valhalla stormed the […]
Infront has secured several long-term broadcast agreements for the Wanda Diamond League from 2025. These include new free-to air deals to ensure broad global coverage of the sport following the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Free-to-air agreements have been signed in Latvia with LTV, Switzerland with SRG and Germany with ARD and ZDF (via SportA) who […]
Rakuten TV, the European streaming platform, is celebrating the arrival of the Olympic Games with a range of content linked to the world of sport. Audiences will be able to enjoy a line-up of exclusive Originals, movies and FAST channels focussed on sport. Rakuten TV’s Originals collection presents stories of optimism, empowerment, and diversity through […]
Students in the Film and TV Department in the Wits School of Arts (WSOA) are to benefit from a Netflix Creative Equity grant from the streaming platform. The Netflix grant will be used to develop creative digital infrastructure in the Department at Wits University and will provide students with state-of-the-art equipment in their learning and […]
The BBC Annual Report shows that the BBC is at the heart of national life and is the go-to media brand in the UK, with 95 per cent of UK adults using BBC services on average per month. Samir Shah, BBC Chair, said: “The BBC matters deeply to the UK, and continues to play an […]
In one of the largest operations to date, UK intellectual property protection body FACT and partners, including Sky, have taken action across the UK to combat illegal streaming and the use of unlawfully modified Firestick devices. In a month-long coordinated and sequenced nationwide surge, FACT and police targeted individuals providing unauthorised access to premium TV […]
Akamai Technologies, the cloud company that powers and protects life online, has announced that Yospace is the latest organisation to join the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner Program as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). Yospace provides dynamic ad insertion for media companies around the globe. As an ISV in the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner Program, Yospace […]
La Liga, the Spanish sports association, reports that it has obtained more than a thousand convictions against hotels, bars and restaurants that have engaged in football piracy. This figure, which translates to a favourable ruling every two days, is attributed to a change in strategy that La Liga implemented in January 2019, when it began […]
America’s trust in the media has plateaued over the last few years with only around one-in-three Americans saying they trust the news. Harrison & Hunter Agency Partners, the digital PR & content marketing agency, visualised the percentage of Americans who trust (or distrust) various news organisations. Data is sourced from a 2024 YouGov survey commissioned […]
As artificial intelligence continues to develop at speed, the European Commission, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the US Federal Trade Commission and US Department of Justice have signed a joint statement setting out shared principles to protect competition and consumers. The statement affirms their shared view that AI, particularly powerful foundation models, has […]