Discovery Communications’ Eurosport and Snap have agreed a strategic advertising and content partnership for the Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang 2018, bringing Snapchatters across Europe Olympic Games action through several types of professionally curated content on Snap’s Discover platform. This partnership marks the first time that Snap has committed to a European, multi-language deal for […]
NBCUniversal and Snap have joined forces to create a new digital content studio. Based in Santa Monica, California, the joint venture will make made-for-mobile programming to debut primarily on multimedia mobile application Snapchat. The initial focus will be to develop and produce shows, including scripted and other genres, for the platform. NBCUniversal and Snap have equal […]
German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery Communications are launching a joint premium entertainment streaming service in Germany, which they say brings an exciting content offering to the market. They say the initiative defines a new way for media companies to bring their content to fans across all screens and new opportunities for advertisers to reach […]
Having abandoned plans to merge their businesses earlier in the year following failure to gain regulatory approval for the deal, New Zealand telco Vodafone and pay-TV operator SKY TV have unveiled Vodafone TV – a world of entertainment that Vodafone says lets Kiwis experience television like never before, by giving them freedom and control over […]
In a move that links the existing UltraViolet digital content ownership system with Disney’s Movies Anywhere cloud-based digital movie service, five Hollywood studios and four major digital retailers are teaming up for a fresh digital movies initiative. Featuring films from Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Walt Disney Studios (encompassing Disney, Pixar, Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm), Twentieth […]
Hot on the heels of its release in the UK, streaming platform and device specialist Roku is to launch its popular Roku Express streaming player in France. Roku Express is the most affordable streaming player Roku ever launched in France, priced at €34.99 MSRP. It comes with everything in the box to get started, including […]
A team of seasoned filmmakers, distributors and software developers has announced White Rabbit, a blockchain-based smart contract solution that intends to improve the way users watch content, distribute it, pay and are paid for films and series. As a browser plug-in, White Rabbit is designed to offer a completely new opportunity. It enables users to […]
Streaming platform and device specialist Roku has unveiled two new streaming players in the UK, which it says will give people who enjoy TV better ways to connect to the streaming entertainment they love. Roku Express is the most affordable streaming player Roku ever launched in the UK, priced at just £29.99 (€33.50) MSRP. Roku […]
Pay-TV subscribers in the US are growing increasingly satisfied with OTT streaming TV services versus traditional cable TV, but they also are spending nearly an hour more a week watching regularly scheduled television programming than they did two years ago. That increasingly complex consumer relationship with streaming and cable television is explored in detail in […]
Millions of Liberty Global customers in Europe are to benefit from a new app that will allow them to check their mobile usage, monitor devices connected to their home WiFi network and automatically connect to 10 million WiFi hotspots. The Connect App, which is available at no extra cost and has already been made available […]