SpotX, the video ad serving platform, has conducted research into the connected TV advertising ecosystem in Europe. Conducted by research and strategy consulting firm MTM, and compiled from interviews and roundtable meetings with experts in each country, the research and resulting white paper analyses the trends, enablers and barriers affecting connected TV advertising spend in […]
Confirming the pursuit of its multichannel strategy, French Media Group TF1 has revealed it will pour €1 billion into programming this season. €150 million will go on news content and news channel LCI, whilst €850 million will be spent on content production and acquisitions. TF1 will take the bulk of this budget, ahead of DTT channels […]
Israel’s Spacecom, which operates the ‘AMOS’ fleet of satellites, is suing Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) with a $138 million (€114.4m) compensation claim for its Amos-6 satellite lost in a catastrophic fire a year ago when the satellite was atop a SpaceX rocket being fueled. In an announcement to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and the […]
Three members of the Virtual Reality Industry Forum (VRIF) – Sky, Ericsson and Tiledmedia – will showcase a real application of Virtual Reality synced with live sports at this year’s IBC Show. The companies will collaborate on an industry-first demonstration that will show how VR can be used to enhance the viewing experience and deliver […]
Intelsat CEO Steve Spengler sat down with journalists from Luxemburger Wort newspaper ahead of Intelsat’s board meeting in the country on September 9th In the interview, he admitted that the satellite operator was having a “challenging” year, not helped by the aborted last-minute launch by an Arianespace rocket of its Intelsat 37e satellite on September […]
The gap between the share of Americans who get news online and those who do so on television is narrowing, according to a report from Pew Research Center. As of August, 43 per cent of Americans report often getting news online, just 7 percentage points lower than the 50 per cent who often get news […]
Ahead of the 2017 season, a newly enhanced NFL Game Pass subscription streaming service is rolling out across Europe. It will stream every NFL game live in HD with fully-integrated, real-time game data and statistics and new multi-stream capabilities that allow fans to watch on as many as five devices simultaneously. The new multi-stream option is […]
Big data and business intelligence online media services specialist NPAW (Nice People At Work) has revealed overlapping metrics built into its YOUBORA Infinity platform to help subscription-based video-on-demand services (SVoD) identify multiple, simultaneous uses from a single user account. Fraud detection is part of YOUBORA Infinity’s module, SmartUsers, to help customers predict churn, identify customer […]
Zambian government officials say the country is on track to switch to all-digital TV transmission. Zambia’s Minister of Information & Broadcasting Services, Kampamba Mulenga said progress towards digital TV migration is on schedule. Phase 1 of migration from analogue TV has been completed, and the initial switch will be implemented on 1 October in the […]
Strong audiences at the IAAF World Athletics Championships and impressive ratings from the first two weeks of La Vuelta have contributed to a 28 per cent increase in average viewer numbers across the Eurosport Group in 2017 compared with the same point in 2016. The figures show Eurosport is increasing its audience for premium, localised […]