NBCUniversal and Snapchat have announced a multi-year content and advertising partnership through which NBCUniversal will produce original episodic shows for the mobile messaging app. The NBCUniversal partnership will significantly expand Snapchat’s existing partner portfolio, which currently includes content and coverage from media and entertainment brands around the world. NBCUniversal is one of the first partners […]
The BBC has launched BBC Sport 360, an experimental service bringing Rio 2016 live and on-demand to UK audiences in 360 degree video for the first time. Armchair sports fans can get closer than ever to the Olympics action and enjoy a new perspective on a range of live sports, including the opening and closing […]
Baroness (Lucy) Neville-Rolfe has retained her responsibility for Intellectual Property following her promotion to Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in the Government reorganisation of mid-July 2016. She previously handled the brief as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary jointly with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the former Department […]
Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky has told analysts that Amazon will double its video content spend during the second half of 2016 compared to the same period last year. Speaking during the company’s Q2 earnings call, Olsavsky also said that Amazon was “nearly tripling” its number of new Amazon Original shows – TV shows and movies compared with the […]
Reuters, the international news provider, has announced an agreement with Samsung to bring Reuters photography and video to new dimensions through an inventive programme, Focus 360. The partnership will provide virtual reality and 360 degree video and photography news content from around the world, using Samsung Gear 360 cameras and editing technology. Users will be […]
Twitter has announced it will live stream weekly out-of-market games from Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Hockey League (NHL). 120 Sports, the OTT network, will also produce an exclusive, nightly multi-sports highlights show called The Rally, the first show of its kind to be streamed live on Twitter. The MLB, NHL, and 120 […]
MaxPlay, an interactive content development software company, is now accepting closed beta sign-up applications for its Game Development Suite (GDS). MaxPlay’s GDS is a cloud-enabled real-time collaborative game and VR development platform. “We are hyper-focused on delivering the game development solution that satisfies the needs of innovative developers,” said MaxPlay CEO Sinjin Bain. “We are […]
Following earlier reports that cable MSO and content investor Liberty Global was interested in acquiring free-to-air general entertainment channel UTV Ireland, its wholly-owned subsidiary Virgin Media has entered into an agreement with ITV plc to acquire the commercial broadcaster for a purchase price of €10 million. The agreement also includes a comprehensive 10-year output deal […]
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 […]
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 […]