Manchester United has launched as official YouTube channel – which has signed up over 130,000 subscribers in less than 24 hours of going live. Manchester United were, until now, the only the only Premier League club not to have their own YouTube channel. “Amazingly, even without an official football channel it is the most viewed […]
Apple has appointed Gaumont Television executive Carol Trussell as the head of production for Apple’s video programming division. Trussell was a producer for HBO’s hit fantasy-horror True Blood, and additional credits include Roswell, Unnatural History and Hannibal. She has served as the head of production at Gaumont Television since 2013. Apple has hired notable executives […]
Sling TV has announced the launch of NBA League Pass on its service. Sling TV is the first live multichannel TV streaming service in the US to integrate NBA League Pass, and plans to launch Team Pass in the coming weeks. NBA League Pass provides access to live, out-of-market games right in the Sling TV app. […]
The Advanced Television Systems Committee’s Board of Directors has selected Madeleine Noland of LG Electronics to lead the ATSC’s primary technology group supporting implementation of the new ATSC 3.0 next-generation broadcast TV standard. She will succeed Triveni Digital’s Dr. Richard Chernock as Chairman of the ATSC Technology Group in May. “Throughout the development of the […]
Alchemiya Media has launched a £1 million investment round on UK based equity crowdfunding platform CrowdCube – a public equity investment platform. The VoD service offers inspirational content about the arts, heritage, music, food, travel, and culture of the Muslim world and has been dubbed ‘the Netflix of Islam’. “Our content celebrates the very best […]
Entertainment One (eOne) has named veteran television executive Peter Micelli to the role of Chief Strategy Officer, Film, Television and Digital. Mark Gordon, eOne’s President and Chief Content Officer, Film, Television and Digital and Steve Bertram, President, Film, Television and Digital, made the announcement today. In his newly created position, Micelli will oversee the Company’s […]
Research from marketing science academic Professor Karen Nelson-Field has uncovered new insights into how and why video advertising works for brands when viewed on mobile devices. The ‘mobile edition’ of Professor Nelson-Field’s ongoing
MásMóvil, the fourth ranked Spanish telco, and Huawei are preparing to launch their pay-TV offer within the next few weeks. They have entered into an alliance with Agile Content, a specialist in TV content and big data, to provide the TV service. With this agreement, MásMóvil and Huawei aim to avoid paying the 0.7 per […]
The launch of SES-14 (and YahSat-3) on January 26th by an Arianespace rocket from French Guiana created more than a few worries for the satellites owners. The problem was, as described by Arianespace, a “trajectory deviation anomaly” meaning the two satellites were deployed into incorrect orbits. At one stage it was thought the two expensive […]
Roku reported healthy growth in subscribers and streaming hours during the last three months of 2017 but a downbeat financial forecast and recent steep stock rises, saw the shares of the streaming device manufacturer take a hammering. Although Roku’s Q1 revenue forecast only narrowly missed Wall Street targets, the stock’s big rise in recent months […]