SintecMedia and Lotame announced plans for an integration that will deliver audience segments from the Lotame DMP directly to SintecMedia’s frontend proposal system, OnBoard. By connecting detailed viewership data with Lotame’s audience data, local sellers can offer enhanced targeting to clients. The partnership enables media companies to understand how targets overlay with their available inventory […]
4KUNIVERSE, the first 24/7 4K Ultra HD general entertainment channel in North America has announced a new 4K underwater TV series titled Blue World starring Emmy Award-winner cinematographer Jonathan Bird licensed from leading 4K content provider Big Media. The premiere 4K-resolution season features episodes on tiger sharks in the Bahamas, muck diving in Iceland, Florida […]
Google parent Alphabet posted a 29 per cent rise in quarterly profit, driven by a surge in advertising on mobiles and its popular YouTube video service. Alphabet’s net income rose to $5.43 billion in the first quarter ended March 31st, up from $4.21 billion a year earlier. Google’s ad revenue, which accounts for a lion’s […]
Having revealed earlier in the week that it had signed a content licensing deal with iQiyi, the leading online video platform in China, Netflix has disclosed further details of the arrangement. The agreement covers a subset of Netflix original series such as Stranger Things and Black Mirror. “Though expectations of our deal are modest in […]
SES is beginning to reap the rewards of extra capacity being utilised, and in reporting its Q1 numbers, says it has seen “substantial” growth in its contracted backlog (from €7.6 billion y-o-y to €7.8 billion). Net profit attributable to SES shareholders of €128.4 million (Q1 2016: €115.1 million) represented an increase of 11.5 per cent over the […]
Australia’s Federal Court has handed down its judgment in Universal Music Australia & Ors v TPG & Ors (the KickassTorrents case). The case began in April 2016, when Universal, along with several other members of the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and the Australasian music collecting society APRA|AMCOS, filed an application seeking to have access […]
Findings from analysis firm Leichtman Research Group (LRG) indicate that 69 per cent of US TV households have at least one television set connected to the Internet via a smart TV set, a stand-alone device (such as Roku, Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV stick or set-top box, or Apple TV), a video game system, and/or a […]
Commercial broadcaster Mediaset Spain made a profit of €60.6 million in the first quarter, up 21 per cent than the same period last year. Net revenues grew by 4.2 per cent up to €240.4 million, of which €235.4 million corresponded to ad revenues, up 5.9 per cent. Mediaset, operator of Tele 5 and Cuatro and […]
According to report from Russian news site ‘Sputnik’, Russia is to build a new mid-range rocket to directly compete with SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket system. “RSC Energia proposes the development of a new medium-class launch vehicle for launches from Baikonur and Vostochny cosmodromes, as well as from the Sea Launch,” the company’s General Director Vladimir Solntsev […]
French media company TF1 Group, the owner of channel TF1, the largest European private TV channel, has reported its Q1 figures. Consolidated revenue for the first quarter of 2017 reached €498.9 million, up €17 million (3.5 per cent year-on-year). The Group saw advertising revenue of €365.1 million, up 2.5 per cent, including a rise in […]