Viaccess-Orca (VO), a global leader providing OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, announced that the VO Secure Player is featuring PCCW Media’s Watch Party, allowing Now TV’ subscribers to experience the innovative social feature during the ongoing UEFA Euro 2020 football matches. PCCW Media is a leading, fully integrated multimedia and […]
ITV’s coverage of England’s Euro 2020 semi-final victory over Denmark at Wembley on July 7th peaked with 27.6 million viewers across ITV, ITV Hub and STV, making it the most-watched football match ever shown on one channel. The one-minute peak figure, calculated across TV and other smart devices including phones and laptops, also gives ITV’s […]
Data published before England’s semi-final win over Denmark on July 7th reveals Gareth Southgate has won over England fans after being the target of a lot of pre-tournament criticism. The England manager has been a resounding success in charge of the national team, following up a World Cup semi-final in 2018 with another at Euro […]
Streaming platform, LIVENow, will offer single match passes for the Premier League 2021/22 season. LIVENow will provide a new flexible service for football fans in Singapore, who will now have the option to purchase pay-per-view passes for one Premier League fixture per match week. Users will have the opportunity to follow games live across multiple […]
In its annual report, the BBC has said is the most used media brand in the UK, revealing it is used by 90 per cent of adults on average per week, with the public choosing BBC programming and services around 250 million times a day. Despite the challenges of lockdown (for the period the annual […]
South Koreans streamed 169 billion minutes of online video in Q2 2021, according to the first of a series of quarterly reports from Media Partners Asia (MPA) measuring the Korean streaming economy. The report, titled South Korea Online Video Consumer Insights & Analytics, leverages MPA’s proprietary AMPD Research Platform to measure and analyse streaming media […]
Director Lee Chaney, James Davis ACO from Motion 24 and cinematographer Andreas Neo have crossed paths on several occasions. Most recently, they have joined forces to film the new England Football commercial promoting the next Pokémon Youth Futsal Cup competition which is commencing in September 2021. England Football players were involved in the ad, with […]
England’s Euro 2020 quarter-final win over Ukraine on July 3rd was watched by an audience of 20.9 million people on the BBC, slightly up on the 20.6 million who watched the win over Germany in the previous round. The peak audience figure made it the most-watched live TV event of 2021 in the UK. A […]
A report from analysts at investment bank Exane/BNPP suggests that the recent pair of refinancing Bonds and Notes issued by SES will themselves boost earnings/share by about 6 per cent in 203. There could also be more benefits on the horizon. SES’s share price is firmly stuck in the near-static doldrums at around €6.40-€7.00. Sami […]
More than two million UK households are at war over who gets to watch the big screen when the Euro 2020 football tournament is on, according to research by Uswitch, the comparison and switching service. Close to one million unlucky fans have been relegated to watching the football on a secondary screen after a family […]