Tru Optik, the OTT audience measurement and data management platform, has announced a partnership with Neustar , a neutral provider of real-time information services. Through this partnership, the Neustar AdAdvisor Audiences and Data Onboarding capabilities become available for OTT ad-campaign targeting via Tru Optik’s OTT Marketing Cloud. AdAdvisor Audiences are powered by the Neustar OneID […]
Younger viewers in the US think they’re paying too much for streaming services — but they’re still willing to sign up if they want to watch a particular show. That could be good news for the Walt Disney Company, which earlier this month said it would launch ESPN-and Disney-branded streaming services, pulling some of its own programmes from […]
Telefónica has just joined the price war with low cost pay-TV to capture subscribers by launching a promotion that will allow subscribers to enjoy Movistar’s premium TV package for free until 2018. New subscribers will now receive the free premium TV package until the end of the year, with current subscribers receiving two months for […]
Brazil’s anti-trust regulator is objecting to the proposed $85.4 billion (€78.5bn) merger between AT&T and Time Warner. CADE (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica [Administrative Council for Economic Defense]), the Brazilian regulator, says the merger poses a “high risk” to competition, and as currently planned should be rejected unless the two businesses sell off some of their […]
Australia’s national broadband network (nbn) has reached another significant rollout milestone with six million homes and businesses now able to connect to fast broadband from their preferred Internet provider over the nbn network. The company’s goal is to provide universal high-speed wholesale access and connect eight million homes and businesses by 2020 in partnership with […]
Iliad-owned telco Free has been holding a 20 per cent stake in Canal+’s SVoD service Canalplay since 2016, having exercised a share acquisition option, according to weekly magazine L’Express. The French operator discreetly took up the shares it held the rights to following the sale of its Free Home Video service to Canal+ in 2011. […]
Swedish telco Com Hem is to offer a range of “digital” services to customers after signing a deal with TMPL, provider of ‘social media platform to premises’, typically multi-dwelling units, that offers various services to those who live there. The company said customers could book laundry, order groceries, book or share vehicles and order food […]
Facebook has partnered with Zoomin.TV, the digital media company, on the launch of their new video hub, ‘Watch’, to deliver a series of purpose driven programming specifically tailored to the needs of Gen Z. The publisher has launched Show Pages that engage the younger audience with meaningful stories from around the global that inspire change […]
The world knows the names of Jeff Bezos (owner Amazon), Elon Musk (SpaceX/Tesla cars) and Sir Richard Branson (Virgin Group) as being more than casually interested in space, rockets and communications. But a report on Bloomberg TV highlighted another dozen or so, drawn from amongst the 500 richest people on the planet, who are backing […]
The powerful South African Gupta family is selling its media interests including The New Age newspaper and ANN7 television news station. The buyer, Mzwanele ‘Jimmy’ Manyi, is a long-standing supporter of President Jacob Zuma and was once a government spokesman. ANN7 was launched in 2013 with 35 percent backing from India’s Essel Group (itself backed […]