Blackbird plc (AIM:BIRD, OTCQX:BBRDF), the developer and seller of the market-leading cloud native video editing platform, Blackbird, today announces that a global broadcast company has licensed its core video technology, Blackbird, including its patented video codec technology, for a 5 year period. This is the first OEM licensing deal of its kind for Blackbird and […]
GAC Media has announced the appointment of Paul Brennan as Senior Vice President of Ad Sales and Elizabeth Santos as Director of Pricing and Planning. The pair of industry veterans bolster GAC’s Ad Sales team as the company prepares to launch new flagship networks GAC Family and GAC Living. Brennan and Santos will be based […]
Blackbird, the developer and seller of the market-leading cloud native video editing platform, Blackbird, has announced today that Univision has entered into a multi-year deal to deploy Blackbird to drive large-scale video production efficiencies across its streaming and digital media operations. Univision is the leading Spanish-language media and content company in the United States, which […]
Sell-side advertising platform Magnite is acquiring SpringServe, an ad serving platform for connected TV (CTV). SpringServe’s technology manages multiple aspects of video advertising for CTV publishers such as inventory routing, customised ad experiences, and advanced podding logic. A tight technical integration between ad serving and programmatic capabilities reduces complexity, improves inventory management between multiple parties, […]
Spanish-language media and content company Univision has unveiled its plans for a comprehensive global streaming service, which includes both free ad-supported and premium subscription-based options, to launch in the US and Latin America in 2022. The two-tier streaming service will offer a differentiated product proposition, vast content scope, expansive library and more Spanish-language originals than […]
VIZIO, has surpassed 11.2 million addressable TVs across the US and counting that enable frame-accurate dynamic ad insertion. The number represents a significant milestone for members of Project OAR, the addressable advertising consortium founded by VIZIO and America’s top TV media companies. By expanding the footprint, programmers are able to deliver and manage addressable TV […]
Google and US Spanish-language content and media company Univision have agreed a new, multi-year, strategic partnership to accelerate growth across Univision’s portfolio of media and content properties, providing solutions that will enable it to build the media company of tomorrow. Google Cloud will help drive Univision’s digital transformation, deepening the media company’s relationships with Hispanic […]
Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network is suing Peloton, Icon Health and athletic clothing firm Lululemon with allegations that they infringed patents for streaming. The writs, filed in Delaware and Texas federal courts, allege that the three businesses used streaming software owned by a Dish subsidiary company, developed for Dish’s Sling TV. The writs stated that the […]
In what the pair describe as a landmark transaction, Grupo Televisa and Univision Holdings have announced a definitive transaction agreement in which Televisa’s content and media assets will be combined with Univision to create the largest Spanish-language media company in the world: Televisa-Univision. The combination brings together the two leading media businesses in the two […]
Univision Communications has announced PrendeTV, America’s first streaming channels-based and VOD service created specifically for U.S. Hispanic audiences, launched with an unparalleled, genre-spanning offering of 100% free, premium Spanish-language content. PrendeTV is home to the widest selection of the most popular Spanish-language programming available to viewers in the U.S. and is spotlighted by 40 streaming […]