Parks Associates’ Smart Home Dashboard, quarterly consumer research featuring surveys of US internet households, finds 45 per cent of US internet households have at least one smart home device and 18 per cent have six or more. “Heading into 2024, the profile of the smart home adopter looks different than in the earlier years of […]
DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has announced the extension of its exclusive LaLiga broadcast rights in Italy and Portugal. Already the broadcaster of Spain’s top flight football league domestically and in other key European markets, DAZN has renewed its contract as the exclusive rightsholder of LaLiga EA Sports in Italy and Portugal until 2029. Italian […]
UK companies revised their marketing spend up once again in Q1 2024, stretching a run of growth that dates back to the second quarter of 2021, according to the latest IPA Bellwether Report. A sustained upturn in marketing spend comes amid an improving economic backdrop for the UK economy, with an impending emergence from recession […]
As cookies are phased out and new measurement techniques come to the fore, 2024 will be a year defined by disruption, uncertainty and experimentation. According to WARC data, only a small fraction of marketers (2 per cent) are using the following measurement techniques in combination – marketing mix modelling (MMM), experiments, attribution – to assess […]
PubMatic, an independent technology company delivering a digital advertising supply chain, has announced a partnership with Virgin Media to enable advertisers to reach UK audiences at scale through ad-funded TV content. With 15 FAST channels currently available, and more to launch later this year, Virgin Media is set to further expand its video offering throughout […]
BBC Studios has announced that its enhanced linear channel, BBC Nordic, has achieved 1 per cent audience share and grown its ratings by 86 per cent over the past six months following its launch on April 17th 2023. BBC Nordic, which has been the number one channel in its competitive set three months in a […]
Redge Technologies, a prominent end-to-end technology provider for streaming in CEE and MENA, has collaborated with TV3, a top media-telco conglomerate in the Baltic region, to transition TV3 from on-premises servers to AWS Cloud. TV3 is the leading media group operating across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It provides a wide array of free and subscription-based […]
Roku and ARTE.tv, the European streaming platform, have announced the launch of ARTE’s app on Roku’s TV streaming platform in the UK, Germany and France. “At Roku, we want to offer our customers a wide variety of entertainment across genres and formats, in all the languages they speak,” said Bernhard Gloeggler, Director of Content Distribution […]
Viaplay Content Distribution has launched the Viaplay channel as an add-on subscription via Prime Video Channels in the US. Subscribers on Prime Video Channels will be able to access, for $5.99 a month with a 7-day free trial, the Viaplay library of Scandinavian series and films. Viaplay’s US content offering focuses on the Nordic region’s […]
During their 83rd General Assembly, ETSI members elected the ETSI Director-General Jan Ellsberger with a majority on the third ballot. ETSI’s Director-General is elected for a five-year term of office, which may be extended by the members for a further three years. From 1995 to 1998 Ellsberger worked as a permanent expert and was responsible […]
Nokia has reported a slow start to 2024 with net sales declining 19 per cent year-on-year, in constant currency (-20 per cent reported) in Q1. The company noted that the environment is still challenging, but order trends continue to improve year-on-year, particularly in Network Infrastructure. Nokia’s full year 2024 outlook is unchanged. The company currently […]
Declan Ganley, CEO of Rivada Space, visited Terran Orbital’s brand-new production site at Irvine, California on April 17th and held a Town Hall meeting of the two companies’ staff. The visit was far from routine and was a clear indication of Rivada’s importance to Terran’s financial future. Ganley was inspecting what will be the main […]
Full Disclosure: I write this piece without any pretence to journalistic objectivity. I ride a motorcycle, l love to do it, and I am a huge fan of motorcycle racing. Therefore, I wish Liberty Media all the best with their acquisition of Dorna, the organiser behind MotoGP and World Superbikes. MotoGP is the top, prototype […]