SES has extended its long-standing partnership with Sky through a multi-year contract renewal for satellite capacity and back-up services from SES’s prime video neighbourhood of 28.2/28.5 degrees East. The previous contract, signed in May 2022, was worth €84 million, but terms for this latest agreement were not revealed. SES’s satellites at the 28.2/28.5 degrees East orbital […]
The Portuguese government has announced a gradual phasing out of advertising on RTP television channels, aiming for a completely ad-free public broadcaster by 2027. This decision, which has long been sought by private operators, is part of the government’s Action Plan for Social Communication that aims to address the challenges facing the public broadcaster. To […]
CreatorIQ, the enterprise influencer marketing platform, has released its fifth annual State of Creator Marketing Report. The fifth annual study underscores the rapid growth of creator marketing investment and maturity, with industry leaders allocating 57 per cent of their marketing budgets to creator marketing and spending 299 per cent more on creator marketing than organisations […]
The telco industry is leading the way in generative AI (GenAI) adoption, according to a study of global senior key decision makers including in the UK & Ireland. The study, conducted earlier this year by Coleman Parkes Research and commissioned by SAS, surveyed 1,600 GenAI strategy and data analytics decision-makers globally to pulse check major areas […]
Pinewood Group has announced a new market offering being launched in summer 2025, exclusively to support filmmakers in the UK who are taking advantage of the UK’s newly introduced Independent Film Tax Credit (IFTC). The announcement of the Pinewood Indie Film Hub coincided with a visit by Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, who toured the wider […]
ITV has acquired Welcome to Chippendales and Culprits from Disney Entertainment. Both series will be available to stream for free on ITVX later this year. Welcome to Chippendales tells the true story of Somen Banerjee, an Indian immigrant who became the unlikely founder of the world’s greatest male-stripping empire – and let nothing stand in […]
Starz and BritBox have launched a bundle offer in the US that allows new customers to access both digital platforms through a single subscription. The launch coincides with the debut of new series from Starz and BritBox, offering audiences access to Starz’ lineup of action, thriller and female-driven programming alongside BritBox’s curated selection of classic […]
With the release of Guinness World record 2025, GWR, the global authority on record-breaking achievements, and Parrot Analytics, a specialist in entertainment analytics and content valuation, have shared data regarding the most in-demand TV shows. “In today’s ever-expanding media landscape, it’s fascinating to see which TV shows resonate most profoundly with audiences around the world,” […]
Deutsche Telekom has outlined its growth plans for the next few years. Global economies of scale and the systematic use of artificial intelligence (AI) are to play a key role, as well as a data-driven business model. Specifically, based on the financial figures for 2023, the Group expects average annual growth of around 4 per […]
The digital advertising industry’s collaborative anti-fraud efforts have reduced losses due to Invalid Traffic (IVT), saving advertisers an estimated $10.8 billion (€9.8bn) in US display and video ad channels in 2023 – a 92 per cent reduction over the losses that would have occurred without those industry standards in place. Conducted by TAG in partnership […]
South Africa’s communications minister Solly Malatsi has intervened in the increasingly bitter row between South African public broadcaster SABC and the nation’s broadcasting transmission company, Sentech. SABC is objecting to the fees Sentech is levying to carry the broadcaster’s signals across the country. In his statement, Malatsi claimed that 3 million South Africans were “at […]
It seems, despite much confusion and the departure of Thierry Breton, the EC Commissioner with oversight of the scheme, a Plan B contract for the IRIS2 (Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite) highly secure mega-constellation could be signed by the end of this year. The reformed and much stripped-down consortium (comprising SES, Eutelsat […]
AI: Artificial Intelligence, it may as well have been the sub head of the recent IBC. Was there an exhibitor or a product that didn’t have an AI tale to spin? We have been here before, the years when AR, VR or 3D were the letter pairs de jour. But AI is different, it isn’t […]