uCast a media platform for distribution and monetisation of content globally, has selected Microsoft Azure as an exclusive cloud provider to offer a worldwide cloud infrastructure for next generation media monetisation platform. Azure provides a highly-scalable, global platform leveraging key technologies such as Media Services, Serverless computing, AI, and a host of real-time analytics and […]
Travelxp, the 4K global travel channel reaching over 75 million homes, has launched a new food-driven show and added three new destinations to its globally popular ongoing series. Nisha Chothani, Director – Travelxp, said, “I am delighted to announce the launch of a unique new show, Thali – The Great Indian Meal, celebrating different, unusual […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) company and the leading provider of digital content distribution and content protection, and the Entertainment Technology Center, a think tank and research center within the USC School of Cinematic Arts (ETC@USC), have partnered to map Fandom Genomics. This data science study is being conducted to support the launch of myCinema, […]
dataxu, a software provider for marketing professionals, has announced its new solution for media companies, TotalTV. This solution enables owners of high-quality TV content to offer audience-based targeting and unify disparate distribution channels and consumer devices – including connected, addressable, and/or linear TV – into a single source of inventory. TotalTV improves yield for media […]
Netflix’s Q1 numbers show that the OTT operator is growing as fast as ever. It added a net 7.4 million global subs during the quarter, only slightly down on the previous quarter’s record-breaking 8.33 million. US new additions were also healthy at 1.96 million. Overall, this latest quarter year were the second-biggest ever, and the […]
Netflix has posted more stunning results; growth all round – subscribers, revenue, stock price and, yes, debt. The stock market, indeed business in general, is meant to be a gamble. Netflix personifies this, and its shareholders are backing its great big bet. In the relatively Wild West that is the disrupter territory of OTT, Netflix […]
Sky Italia has revealed that a Milan court has suspended the tender for national TV rights to the Italian Serie A for the seasons 2018-2021. The satellite broadcaster requested checks on whether the process that awarded the football rights to Spain’s MediaPro was in line with Italian laws. According to Sky Italia, the tender “rises […]
Gerson Zweifach, group general counsel of 21st Century Fox, has suggested that certain UK politicians have a political agenda in respect of the company’s bid to acquire the 61 per cent of Sky it does not already own, accusing them of seeking to enlist regulators in a political war. Writing an opinion piece in the […]
Ultra-HD is making significant progress around the world (channel count up 27 per cent) in particular over the past six months, according to data from Eutelsat presented at last week’s MIPTV programming market in Cannes. Claudia Vaccarone (Eutelsat’s Director of Global Market Research) told delegates that Eutelsat was carrying about 33 per cent of the […]
UK multiplay telco BT has revealed plans to launch BT Sport Box Office, a pay-per-view channel which will be available on BT TV and the Sky platform. A brief announcement on the BT Sport website to that effect suggests that the service will be available “later this year”. “Watch this space for announcements coming soon!” […]