Disney Entertainment and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) have announced a new streaming bundle that includes Disney+, Hulu and Max. Beginning this summer in the US the streaming services will be offered together, featuring content from ABC, CNN, DC, Discovery, Disney, Food Network, FX, HBO, HGTV, Hulu, Marvel, Pixar, Searchlight, Warner Bros, and more. The new […]
NBCUniversal and Pluto have announced that NBCUniversal Local’s 15 NBC and Telemundo local and regional streaming news channels will begin rolling out on Pluto TV in the US this May, starting immediately with five channels covering major markets. Pluto TV customers across the US will begin gaining access to 24/7 news coverage, weather, investigative and […]
Sky has announced it will launch Sky Sports+ this August, a service it says will be “transformational in the amount of choice sports fans will have access to via live streams, the mobile app and a dedicated new channel, all at no extra cost”. With more coverage from the English Football League (EFL), both tennis […]
RTL Group has reported that group revenue was up 2.6 per cent YoY to €1.31 billion, mainly driven by higher TV advertising revenue and streaming revenue at RTL Deutschland, partly offset by lower Fremantle revenue. Group revenue was up 4.1 per cent organically. RTL Group’s total advertising revenue increased by 10.1 per cent YoY to […]
Ofcom, the UK media regulator, has published a package of proposed measures that social media and other online services must take to improve children’s safety when they’re online. Ofcom has explained some of the main measures and the difference it expects them to make and has set out proposed steps online services would need to take […]
Integral Ad Science (IAS), the media measurement and optimisation platform, has released its 19th edition of its Media Quality Report (MQR). The annual report analyses over 280 billion digital interactions daily from across the globe to provide both advertisers and publishers with benchmarks to measure the quality of their digital advertising campaigns and inventory. The […]
Despite dramatic changes across the TV market and measurement landscape, consumer research panels seem set to remain a critical building block for measurement solutions for the foreseeable future. The Future Role and Value of Panels in US TV Measurement, released by the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM), analyses the purpose and usage of consumer […]
Spanish TV group Mediaset, operator of Tele 5 and Cuatro among others, has again become a member of Spain’s private TV association UTECA. The company pulled out of the Association five years ago during the leadership of former CEO Paolo Bassile for “profound disagreements” with some of the association’s other members. Now, with new CEO […]
Global spending on telecom services and pa-y TV Services reached $1,509 billion (€1,404.3bn) in 2023, an increase of 2.1 per cent over 2022, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker. IDC expects worldwide spending on telecom and pay-TV services will increase by 1.4 per cent in 2024 and reach a total […]
DoubleVerify (DV), a software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics, has announced the discovery of ‘FM Scam’, the latest audio fraud scheme to date that was identified and mitigated by DV’s Fraud Lab using a proprietary combination of AI-powered technology and human review. FM Scam represents the second significant global scheme targeting audio […]
Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has announced the appointments of Caroline Cardozo as Director of Product, and James Lelyveld as Director of Software Engineering. Cardozo joins Arqiva from Disguise, where she served as VP of Product. Prior to this, she was Director of Group Product, Discovery & AI at Sky where she […]
Last week Germany expressed in no uncertain terms its unhappiness over the EU-backed IRIS² Low Earth Orbiting system which would give Europe’s governments a secure, encrypted satellite fleet and an alternate to Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband system. (IRIS² Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite). The German government strongly opposes IRIS² due to its […]
The Paramount logo is a mountain with a coronet of stars. Its sale still has a mountain to climb and the final outcome – pre-deal or post – is likely to be the current contenders, and others, picking and choosing between those star divisions of the business. When the movie (low budget straight to streaming) […]