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Sky Sports wins live EFL rights

Sky Sports says it has strengthened its position as the home of English football with a new deal to show live coverage of the EFL  – which covers the second, third and fourth tiers of the professional game – until 2024, offering Sky customers more matches and more ways to watch than ever before. The […]

September 12, 2017

Sky launches Spanish OTT service

As anticipated, Sky has launched an OTT TV streaming service in Spain, a market where it doesn’t have a DTH presence, offering what it describes as “great entertainment and contract-free viewing” to customers to watch on all their devices. The new service will offer the best of Spanish pay TV channels, TV series and on-demand […]

September 11, 2017

AI news engine on Opera Mini for iPhone

Opera has released a new version of its most mobile browser app, Opera Mini, for iPhone users. The revamped user interface features a newsfeed on its start page and helps users get the news four times faster than the previous version. An artificial intelligent (AI) news engine is also rolling out to selected countries, bringing […]

September 5, 2017

IBM debuts Watson Media at US Open Tennis

IT giant IBM has launched IBM Watson Media, a new suite of AI-powered solutions on the IBM Cloud that analyse images, video, language, sentiment and tone, at the US Open Tennis Championships. By combining IBM Watson with IBM’s video capabilities, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) will be able rapidly to share highlight videos of […]

August 31, 2017By Colin Mann

Snapchat scripted content by year-end

Social media app Snapchat will add scripted content to its service “before the end of year”.  Nick Bell, head of content for the photo-sharing platform, said that the company was not seeking to take-on traditional broadcasters, but rather complement them. “Instead, it can help bolster them,” he said, speaking at the Edinburgh International TV Festival. […]

August 24, 2017

Primetime entertainment tablet from AT&T

AT&T is launching the AT&T Primetime tablet, available from August 25th for the multiplay operator’s business and consumer customers to purchase for $10 (€8.47) a month for 20 months with an AT&T Instalment plan, or $29.99 with a two-year contract. This AT&T exclusive tablet is loaded with entertainment and productivity features like such as TV […]

August 22, 2017

Australia: Freeview campaign highlights mobility

Australia’s free-to-air DTT platform Freeview has launched a new TV campaign, the third in the series starring the popular Freeman family and their neighbours, the Joneses. The first spot, Freemans On The Go, demonstrates how easy it is to watch live and catch up TV wherever you are, on whichever device you choose via a […]

August 21, 2017

Sky introduces anti-churn loyalty programme

Having revealed in its Full Year results that on a 12-month rolling basis churn was 11.5 per cent, Sky has taken steps to address the problem, with the introduction of Sky VIP, which it describes as the first tenure-based loyalty programme in the TV and Broadband sector. Sky foreshadowed the initiative in its results announcement, […]

August 3, 2017By Colin Mann

Multi-territory linear, multiplatform deals for VIMN

Viacom International Media Networks Southern and Western Europe, Africa and Middle East (SWEMEA) Cluster has secured what it describes as a string of important milestones and deals, covering linear, SVoD and multiplatform distribution in Europe and Africa. VIMN launched the MTV Play VoD mobile app in Germany and Austria. SVoD carriers Showmax and iflix will […]

August 2, 2017

Report: AR/MR still far off from being part of daily life

Augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) presents many opportunities for application enhancement and new monetisation opportunities, but the technologies are still a long-way from being an everyday feature of consumers’ lives, according to Futuresource’s latest industry tracking report for AR and MR in mobile. The report,

July 25, 2017