Virgin Media has announced that it will be making its Asian entertainment apps available to view at no extra cost for its TV customers until July 4th. The Desi App Pack brings together two of India’s biggest entertainment apps – Eros Now and Voot – into an easy to access apps pack that allows TV […]
Anthony Mackie, best known for portraying Falcon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is set to star and produce a new movie for Netflix. The futuristic sci-fi show, entitled Outside The Wire, sees a drone pilot sent into a deadly militarised zone where he finds himself working for an android officer tasked to locate a doomsday […]
In a livestream presentation Google revealed that Stadia, its cloud gaming platform, will launch in November with a limited edition starter pack for early adopters. Stadia games will run on servers at Google data centres around the world, with the video footage streamed to a TV. The company said that Stadia will give gamers over […]
FIFA has extended its digital outreach in China by launching official accounts on popular digital platforms Douyin and Toutiao. Building on FIFA’s existing presence in the country with Weibo, FIFA will now be able to offer more content to fans across China through the two platforms and will expand its digital presence in country to […]
VOO and Telenet subscribers in Belguim can continue to tune in to Premier League football for another 3 seasons on the Be TV and VOOsport channels. In a joint statement, the two operators said they are “proud to announce the continuation of the exclusive broadcast of the Premier League for the next three seasons”.
MUSO, the global specialist in digital piracy protection, has released data from the boxing match between Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr, revealing that over 13 million people across the globe turned to unauthorised channels to watch Joshua’s shock defeat. In terms of how people were tuning in illegally, YouTube had over 93 per cent […]
A new estimate from the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) puts the annual losses due to counterfeiting and piracy across 11 key economic sectors in the EU at up to £49 billion (€60bn) each year. The updated analysis puts the overall losses at 7.4 per cent of all sales in the following sectors: cosmetics […]
US consumers are now spending more time using their mobile devices than watching TV, with smartphone use dominating that time spent, according to eMarketer. Consumers’ use of smartphones will continue to make up the majority of their media consumption, but eMarketer predicts that use will plateau by 2020, as consumers become increasingly uneasy about overuse […]
According to a study by Futuresource Consulting, overall eSports industry revenues are set to exceed $900 million (€799.2m) this year with an 18 per cent 19-23 CAGR expected, driving revenues through the billion-dollar mark in 2020 and onto $1.8 billion by 2023. As key events attract viewing figures comparable to tier 1 sporting competitions, securing […]
YouTube’s plans to take down videos promoting hate speech and extremism – by removing thousands of videos promoting neo-Nazism, white supremacy and bigotry – continues Google’s modus operandi of taking action only when public dissent builds to a boil, according to the Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA), Speaking on the matter, Tom Galvin, executive director of […]