Motorvision Group has launched its car and motorsports channel on six additional TV platforms in Europe, Africa and Asia. Thanks to newly signed deals, car enthusiasts in Sub-Saharan Africa, Maledives and Phillipines can now watch Motorvision TV for the first time ever, while Australian and Dutch viewers have even more options to get the channel. […]
PCCW has announced that Now TV and ViuTV will exclusively broadcast the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia in Hong Kong. Now TV will be exclusively broadcasting all 64 matches live, while ViuTV will broadcast 19 selected matches live, including the opening match, the two semi-finals and the final. Janice Lee, Managing Director of PCCW Media […]
Electric street racing series Formula E has teamed-up with motorsport media brand Motorsport Network to bring fans even more insight and behind the scenes access to the category, with additional news and video content shown throughout the season. Motorsport.com will showcase an enhanced news coverage package for the FIA Formula E Championship across its network […]
Musical.ly has partnered with Zoomin.TV, the online video publisher, to diversify its content and enrich the consumption experience for its youth-focused audience. For Zoomin.TV, the collaboration means the opportunity to grow their reach and speak to a highly engaged audience of ‘super fans’. Zoomin.TV content spans 7 magazines and speaks to this younger audience through […]
SK Telecom has developed new relay technologies for 5G networks after its six-month-long collaboration with local partners. This is a successful case of collaboration, where an idea proposed by SK Telecom has been realized by highly capable local players, adding momentum to domestic efforts to build a 5G ecosystem in Korea. The partners, including High […]
ATEME, a global player in HEVC, H.264, and MPEG-2 video compression solutions for broadcast, cable, DTH, IPTV, and OTT has announced a technological partnership with Interra Systems, a global provider of quality control (QC), monitoring and analysis solutions to the digital media industry. The partnership will provide mutual customers around the world, such as broadcasters, […]
OpenX, the independent advertising technology provider, has announced significant growth in its mobile business in the first half of 2017, recording 150 per cent growth in net revenue year-over-year. The company also announced the release of the latest version of its mobile SDK, optimising for video formats to enable publishers and app developers to better […]
The BBC is to merge BBC Studios and BBC Worldwide to form a single commercial organisation, to be called BBC Studios, suggesting that at a time of an increasingly competitive and global market for production and distribution, the new organisational structure will bring the BBC into line with the rest of the industry, integrating programme production, […]
More than half (54 per cent) of UK 12- to 15-year-olds use social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, to access online news, making it the second most popular source of news after television (62 per cent), according to regulator Ofcom’s Children and Parents Media Use and Attitudes Report 2017. The news that children read […]
Ericsson forecasts there will be 1 billion 5G subscriptions for enhanced mobile broadband by 2023. This prediction is among the key statistics presented in the November edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report. Expected to be deployed first in dense urban areas, 5G will cover over 20 per cent of the world’s population by the end of […]