YouTube has become one of the world’s most powerful advertising ecosystems, now competing directly with linear TV for living-room attention. It has around 2.6 billion monthly users and annual revenue exceeding $60 billion (€52.3bn) in 2025, of which more than $40 billion is attributed to advertising, according to WARC Media. However, the platform’s ad business […]
Mediapro, the Spanish audiovisual group, is experiencing one of the most challenging periods in its history, reporting losses of €286 million in 2025 while simultaneously launching a legal complaint against three former senior executives accused of allegedly taking confidential company information before joining rival broadcaster services company NVP Sports. The legal action comes at a […]
A peak audience of 24 million watched as Argentina knocked out England in their FIFA World Cup semi-final match on July 15th across BBC One and BBC iPlayer, giving the BBC an 85 per cent share of all TV viewing. It was the most-watched live television moment of the year across all broadcasters and the […]
The Disney+ streaming service is rolling out support for 17 additional languages, bringing the total to 58 audio languages. Across the platform, the Disney+ user interface is now available in more than 30 languages, with subtitles and closed captions offered in as many as 42. This latest expansion introduces support for languages including Arabic, Croatian, […]
Channel 4 today has announced the appointment of Simon Rexworthy as Chief Strategy & Corporate Development Officer, reporting to Chief Executive Priya Dogra and joining its Executive Committee. Rexworthy, who joins later this July, will lead Channel 4’s corporate strategy, as well as its transformation and development agenda, helping to shape the broadcaster’s future direction. […]
TV network Great!, run by Narrative Entertainment, has launched a partnership with the charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), gifting unsold TV airtime to encourage people to check in with friends, family and colleagues who may be struggling with mental health. The partnership will see CALM’s life-saving messages shown across the Great! network at no […]
Australia formally asked the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for a launch time extension to the ITU’s rule for its planned Optus 11 satellite. The current obligation should have seen Optus 11 delivered in 2023, and launched later that year. Airbus Defence & Space is building the satellite. The ITU rules were that the satellite be […]
SWISSto12, the aerospace company, has announced the close of its $70 million (€61m) Series C. This news follows the award of $84.8 million from European Space Agency (ESA) Member States to the HummingSat ARTES partnership project, through which ESA supports SWISSto12 in the development and in-orbit validation of HummingSat. The Series C funding follows a […]
Xsolla, the video game commerce company, has released the latest edition of The Xsolla Report, analysing the accelerating global shift toward direct-to-consumer (D2C) commerce and strategies across mobile and PC game distribution. Drawing on data from publishers, platform policy changes, and global market expansion trends, the report shows how D2C has moved from an experimental […]
Channel Factory, the contextual advertising company, has launched AI Slop Detection. The new capability gives brands a precise, tiered view of content quality, separating slop engineered for monetisation from the high-quality AI-assisted content that delivers audience value. The launch addresses what Channel Factory positions as a quality crisis, not a safety crisis. Generative AI has […]
AST SpaceMobile has announced a private debt funding offering to raise $1 billion (€0.87bn) in the shape of Convertible Senior Notes. AST has also confirmed that is in “advanced discussions” with Japanese company Rakuten regarding the preliminary selection of RAST Co., Ltd. as an indirect subsidy recipient for the Low Earth Orbit Satellite Infrastructure Development […]
Eutelsat has lodged an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build and launch an extra 528 satellites in its ‘Eutelsat Next’ scheme. The filing says the satellites will orbit at 1,220 kms (the same as OneWeb) and designed to extend the company’s ability to provide secure, resilient, high-speed, high-capacity communications services around the […]
Comcast has decided to unpack itself while at the same time trying to bag ITV broadcasting through Sky. In the meantime, Fox has bagged Roku, at which Netflix looked but decided to keep its checkout basket empty. Just as well, since the rumours have already started that the streamer will now bid for the newly […]