Arianespace has confirmed that normality is returning to its work schedules following the month-long strike in French Guiana. Arianespace says that – weather permitting – it will launch two satellites on May 4th on its Flight 236. The two spacecraft: SGDC for VISIONA Tecnologia Espacial S.A. on behalf of the Brazilian operator Telebras S.A., and […]
Indian content company, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) has announced its expansion into Latin America with the launch of its Spanish-language Bollywood movie channel, Zee Mundo in Mexico and Ecuador. With this, ZEE becomes the first-ever Indian broadcaster to take mainstream channels to LATAM. Zee Mundo will be available in Mexico on Sky, a pay-TV […]
Sir David Attenborough’s award-winning Great Barrier Reef factual series has won another ‘gong’, this time for its Virtual Reality Dive version of the show, which has won a BAFTA. The show, produced by Atlantic Productions, has now won 3 different BAFTA awards across all the key elements of new digital media: 3D, 4K and now, […]
VoD delivery and broadcast content specialist Ostmodern has opened an office in New York. The move was fuelled in part by the success of its Skylark video platform, with the US office intended to drive the growth and implementation of innovative video services for customers across the region. The company – behind BBC Player, 4oD, […]
Simplestream, a provider of video services for the media and entertainment industry, has announced it that its Cloud TV platform has been chosen by NWSL Media (a joint venture between the National Women’s Soccer League and A+E Networks) to deliver a multiscreen streaming service for America’s premier women’s soccer league. At launch, the service, which […]
Content and consumer company in Southeast Asia, Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad (Astro) continues to strengthen and grow its content creation partnerships with renowned content producers and filmmakers to produce and distribute Asian-themed originals. Henry Tan, Chief Operating Officer of Astro said, “It is our intent to be a key player in the Asian content space. […]
Amazon Prime Video has announced August 25th as the premiere date for the highly-anticipated superhero comedy series The Tick starring comedy legend Peter Serafinowicz as “The Tick”. The Tick will premiere in the UK and US on Amazon Prime Video simulataneously and will be available globally on Prime Video. The series is created by executive producer and original […]
Concurrent, a global player in storage, protection, transformation, and delivery of visual assets announces the availability of Origin Release 3, offering video service providers the most comprehensive origin platform for ingesting, hosting, distributing, and serving video content to any device, any time, over any network, for content service providers. Concurrent’s Origin Release 3 adds several […]
UK commercial public service broadcaster Channel 4 has unveiled an interactive VoD format that enables advertisers to incorporate the individual names of viewers of its All 4 catch-up service into the audio of their adverts for the first time. Using first-party data from Channel 4’s 15 million strong registered viewer database, launch partners Foster’s, 20th […]
Netflix is to introduce original content in China in a licensing deal with local video streaming service iQiyi.com, says the US company. Netflix has struggled to break into the Chinese market, where streaming services are subject to strict data storage regulations and foreign films and television are routinely censored. In October CEO Reed Hastings said […]