The Digital TV Group (DTG) today announces details of its annual conference. New Horizons, the DTG Summit, will explore the UK’s position in the global media and communications landscape, and establish how the UK can maintain its lead in innovation. The summit will take place on the 8th May 2019 in London. As the media […]
Alteox media consulting has the pleasure to announce that POST Luxembourg has reached an agreement with several TV channels from Russia to become part of the ambitious “Entertain Me”-package. As Luxembourg is a multicultural and multilingual place, POST Luxembourg wants to diversify its TV content portfolio and offer as many different options to its customers […]
AT&T and Hulu have agreed a deal which sees AT&T sell its minority stake in Hulu back to the streaming video joint venture. The transaction valued Hulu at $15 billion (€13.2bn), with AT&T’s 9.5 per cent interest valued at $1.43 billion. The transaction did not require any governmental or other third-party approvals and was simultaneously […]
FreeWheel, a Comcast company and advertising management solution, has published its Q4 2018 Video Marketplace Report (previously the Video Monetisation Report), which shows the line between linear and digital TV is increasingly disappearing, as the TV and premium video landscape evolves. In Europe, confidence in premium video continues to grow, with overall ad views in […]
Analyst and consultancy firm Ovum predicts TV market will have multiple drivers in the forecast period. There will be steeper smart TV/4K TV growth in developing countries over the next few years as first-time smart TV consumers in these markets begin to purchase the devices en masse. To date, smart TV uptake has been slower […]
Stats, a specialist in sports AI, has combined with Perform, the global sports content company. The transaction was enabled by an investment from Vista Equity Partners. DAZN Group, Perform’s owner, will receive a combination of cash and a significant minority stake in the newly formed company Together US-based Stats and European-based Perform will combine Stats’ […]
Game of Thrones has seen its audience continuously grow – a rarity for television shows, as they typically lose viewership over the course of their runs. In the US, the the first episode of the final season of HBO’s fantasy-behemoth delivered 17.4 million viewers on April 15th across multiple airings and including some streaming. In […]
Forty-one per cent of Britons have admitted to avoiding using social media during the course of Monday April 15th in order to evade Game of Thrones spoilers and one in 20 have deactivated their accounts completely. The team behind www.MoneySavingHeroes.co.uk conducted the short survey to find out the lengths Britons will go to in order […]
Sky has apologised to Game of Thrones fans after it had problems streaming the show via its NOW TV app on Apple TV set-top boxes. The issue coincided with the highly-anticipated premiere of season eight of the fantasy series on the firm’s OTT service. Some users were unable to login at all while others were […]
Following the unveiling of Disney’s new streaming service, Bea Alonso, Director of Global Product Marketing at Ooyala, has shared her thoughts on the importance of the supply chain to the platform’s success. Alonso said: “This is the first big move in the content arms race currently underway in the industry. To date this has been […]