The first domestic bids for the English Premier League football auction are scheduled to be tabled on February 8th, according to a report from equity analysts at Berenberg Bank. The bids will cover various options covering three seasons from 2019-2020. The bank is interested because of the potential impact the costs will have on Sky’s […]
According to the seventeenth edition of TMT Predictions 2018 from business advisory firm Deloitte, traditional TV viewing by 18-24 year-olds in the UK will decline by 10 per cent to 15 per cent in 2018 and 2019, but thereafter the rate of decline may lessen. “Many forces that distracted young people away from traditional TV, […]
YouTube is introducing tougher rules for publishers who want to monetise their videos on the platform. The Google-owned site has also announced that staff will now manually review all clips before they are added to a premium service that pairs big brand advertisers with popular content. The moves follow advertiser boycotts because of ‘extreme’ content […]
Amazon Studios has closed an exclusive two-year overall deal with Emmy-nominated writer and creator Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe). In addition to her personal deal, Horgan and co-founder Clelia Mountford’s entertainment company, Merman, also signed a first-look deal with Amazon Studios. Amazon Studios will get first-look rights to Merman concepts to which Horgan is attached and remake […]
Parks Associates has revealed that as of Q3 2017, 12 per cent of US broadband households use a live streaming platform such as Facebook Live or Periscope. The profile for live streamers is generally younger, with 19 per cent of consumers ages 18-24 engaging in live streaming activity, but live streaming of TV shows and […]
Nielsen has introduced advertising measurement on YouTube’s mobile app through its Digital Ad Ratings service in the UK, France, and Germany. The service, which expands Nielsen’s current measurement coverage of YouTube ads on desktop and mobile web browsers, will now provide marketers independent and comprehensive cross-device measurement of advertising audiences on YouTube across computer and […]
BT Consumer is now offering a 100 megabits per second (Mbps) speed guarantee for its new Ultrafast Fibre broadband packages. BT is launching two new Ultrafast Fibre packages with speeds of up to 152Mbps and up to 314Mbps, both with a speed guarantee of 100Mbps. Customers who sign up for either package will get compensation […]
France’s Canal+ Group and the M6 Group have agreed a global partnership for M6 content in Canal+ packages. Canal subscribers will be able to continue to have access to the M6 Group’s channels (M6, W9, 6ter, Teva, Paris Premiere, M6 Music, Girondins TV and M6 Boutique la chaîne) and their associated services and will soon […]
The American film and television industry continues to be a key driver of the US economy, adding high quality domestic jobs and paying out $49 billion (€40bn) to local businesses across the country, according to the most recent economic figures released by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The US film and television industry […]
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion (€3 trillion) in 2018, an increase of 4.5 per cent from 2017, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “Global IT spending growth began to turn around in 2017, with continued growth expected over the next few years. However, uncertainty looms as organisations consider the potential impacts […]