ITV has announced Studio 55 Ventures – a new collaboration with Founders Intelligence that will seek to invest in new business ideas aimed at materially enhancing ITV’s reach amongst 16-34 year olds. Applications will open for teams of people, from both inside and outside ITV, to apply for the chance to create and scale a […]
NFL Media and YouTube TV have announced a new carriage agreement to bring the two NFL-based channels to YouTube TV subscribers in the US, ahead of the new season that kicks off on September 11th. NFL Network is available on YouTube TV’s base package. NFL RedZone is also available now, as part of YouTube TV’s […]
ViacomCBS Networks UK has announced a new partnership between MTV Play and O2. As part of the deal, O2 customers will be offered the SVoD D2C streaming app free of charge for three months, as part of their existing mobile network subscriptions. O2 subscribers are now able to watch hundreds of hours’ worth of MTV […]
ODMedia Group, the Dutch content services company and specialist in media processing and aggregation for on-demand media, has signed a deal with German content distributor SchröderMedia that will bring their extensive library of titles to global digital exploitation. With a library of over 2200 titles, including classics and popular titles such as Anne Frank, Hexe […]
Crunchyroll has announced that an anime adaptation of the celebrated Shenmue game series is currently in production. The third Crunchyroll and Adult Swim collaboration, based on the Sega game series, will be a 13 episode series with animation production from Telecom Animation Film (Tower of God, Lupin the Third: Part 5), directed by Chikara Sakurai […]
BT Sport will premiere the next documentary from its BT Sport Films series, Proud To Be Town, on BT Sport 1 on October 3rd. The first full-length documentary to highlight the profound impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on football, the film uniquely captures the dilemmas and challenges facing sport at present. Beginning in June, with […]
The Premier League has cancelled its £564 million (€633.1m) TV rights contract in China two years early, creating a major financial hole as football struggles to retain its revenues through the pandemic. China was the English top flight’s most lucrative overseas television rights territory, with a three-season deal agreed in 2019. The ending of the […]
For the first time Nielsen has included an SVoD top 10 ranking in its audience performance report for the US. For the week starting August 3rd
Many headlines rang out ‘New BBC DG against subscription model’ following Tim Davie’s first speech. If my memory of reporter school is right – it is a very long time ago – this is a classic ‘dog bites man’ headline. In other words, no news at all. The news would have been ‘New DG does […]
Virgin Media has added YouTube Kids to its TV platform. The app, which is available to all Virgin Media customers with a V6 set top box, allows parents to customise the experience to suit their children’s needs and preferences. This includes different content settings for preschoolers, younger, or older kids, and the ability to block […]