German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has issued another warning about revenue expectations for this year. The news comes just three weeks after the second warning of the year, when advertising guidance was trimmed. This latest – and unscheduled – statement talks of a weaker September and that previous guidance for its Q3 ad sales were now […]
Jon Folland, Gordon Ashworth and Nick Ryan – the founders of media logistics company Nativ, which was acquired by Ooyala in 2015 – have chosen IBC 2017 to debut their latest venture, which harnesses artificial intelligence to identify, process and manage stream-based content. The entrepreneurs have taken a break from the M&E industries to pursue […]
RTL Group has published its results for the six months ended June 30th 2017. Reported Group revenue was up 3.5 per cent to €2,978 million (H1/2016: €2,878 million), driven by higher revenue from RTL Group’s rapidly growing digital businesses (+€125 million) and from the three main business units Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland (+€36 million), Groupe M6 (+€16 million) […]
A new report explores how online news content was discovered (and consumed) by computer users in the UK between mid-March and mid-April 2017. Based on a passive tracking study of the desktop and laptop web browsing of more than 3,400 online news users, it identifies the news brands that were most successful in driving social […]
Dataxis research shows that ultra-broadband subscribers (fibre, high-speed cable and VDSL) will take an increasing share on the total connections in Latin America in the upcoming years. Dataxis expects 25.6 million next-generation broadband connections by the end of this year, which will represent 36 per cent of the total access. Furthermore, this share will continue […]
To mark 12 years since its launch, Google’s online video portal YouTube is undergoing a redesign – with a brand new logo – and adding a raft of new features. The updates will start rolling out effective immediately, with an onus to keep the YouTube brand legible across both desktop and mobile. In a blog […]
The first episode of Channel 4’s The Great British Bake Off was watched live by an average of 5.8 million viewers. The audience for the launch show rose to 6.5 million – a 30.4 per cent audience share – when those watching on +1 were included in the figures. Peak viewing reached 7.7 million with […]
EchoStar XX1 satellite has successfully completed its in-orbit testing, and the craft has been handed over to EchoStar by builder Space Systems/Loral. The satellite is based at 10.25 degrees East and can now start operating its S-band Mobile Satellite Services payload (operating as EchoStar Mobile) with its HQ in Milton Keynes, UK. “We are pleased […]
PT Telkom of Indonesia suffered a satellite malfunction on August 25th on its Telkom-1 satellite. It is not entirely clear whether there’s a problem with the Lockheed Martin-built satellite, launched in 1999, or some sort of operator error. However, PT Telkom is talking of making an insurance claim and thus seemingly accepting that the problem […]
The SRT Alliance, an open-source initiative dedicated to overcoming the challenges of low-latency video streaming, announces that 14 new members have joined the initiative including Eurovision Media Services, Matrox and Telvue. Now with more than 35 members, the SRT Alliance’s rapid growth supports continued adoption and development of the low latency SRT open source video […]