Applause, a provider of crowdtesting and UX research that works with the likes of Netflix and Paramount+ and sports broadcasters, to provide quality assurance for a wide range of platform features, has shared its industry predictions for 2026 through Adrian Garcia, the company’s Senior Solutions Consultant. Garcia’s three key predictions for the next 12 months […]
Italy’s Reti Televisive Italiane (RTI) and Medusa Film, both part of the Mediaset Group, have launched legal action against US-based generative AI company Perplexity AI. This lawsuit, filed with the Civil Court of Rome, marks the first legal challenge in Italy specifically targeting copyright infringement related to the unauthorised use of content for training AI […]
More than half of households globally (57 per cent) are worried about annual broadband price increases and, crucially, the majority think these increases are unfair, unreasonable (60 per cent) and difficult to understand (48 per cent), according to the latest EY decoding the digital home study. The survey examined the views of 20,500 consumers on […]
BT has announced the launch of a sovereign platform which will deliver a suite of new digital sovereignty services for the UK private and public sector. Assuring the control and management of operations, systems and data within a UK infrastructure platform – supported exclusively by UK-based staff where required – is key to providing digital […]
Redflag AI, an AI-powered content protection platform, and EZDRM, a specialist in cloud-based Digital Rights Management as a Service (DRMaaS), today announced a global partnership that enables media and entertainment organisations to secure their content from every angle, from business model enforcement to proactive piracy detection. The partnership brings together two complementary technologies for studios, […]
Market Research Society of India (MRSI) has announced the adoption of ICC/ESOMAR International Code on Market, Opinion and Social Research and Data Analytics 2025. The ICC/ESOMAR International Code 2025 takes into consideration the increasing use of AI, synthetic and secondary data usage, and the need for high levels of trust in market research and insights. […]
Brightcove, the intelligent video engagement company, has released seven major new features designed to expand global reach, improve audience engagement, enhance live-streaming quality, and streamline video workflows. These updates build on the ambitious roadmap Brightcove unveiled in July 2025 and contribute to a broader set of twelve new tools Brightcove has introduced in recent months. […]
You don’t have to be as old as me to remember the dotcom crash of March 2000. But, by the same token, there are plenty of senior executives and fund managers around who would have been children at the time. Are their perceptions of the inevitability of AI’s success, their assumption that we are all […]
Futuresource Consulting has appointed David Watkins as its new Director of Consumer Electronics & Media. Watkins joins Futuresource with more than 15 years of senior leadership experience, including nearly a decade as Practice Lead for the Media & Intelligent Home Group at Strategy Analytics. Most recently, he served as VP of Consumer Electronics at TechInsights, […]
Next-generation 6G networks will require up to three times more mid-band spectrum than is typically available today to keep pace with surging demand for data, AI-powered services and advanced digital applications, according to analysis published by the GSMA, which represents the mobile ecosystem worldwide. Vision 2040: Spectrum for the Future of Mobile Connectivity, an assessment […]