CEO of Avanti Communications, Kyle Whitehill addressed a group of representatives from Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Education, the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs and UN agencies, during an event to launch World’s Largest Lesson Nigeria. The World’s Largest Lesson is an initiative to teach over 500,000 children in one […]
SpotX, the global video advertising and monetisation platform, today announced it was selected as the best video SSP in Adweek’s first “Readers’ Choice Awards.” The award recognizes the top advertising and marketing technology providers across 24 categories selected by the entire Adweek community. In its inaugural year, more than 15,000 votes were cast by Adweek’s […]
France’s proposed Salto OTT platform, backed by public broadcaster France Télévisions, and commercial operators TF1 and M6, is set o see the trio triple their investment in the platform. They had initially promised a combined €45 million but French business newspaper Les Echos is reporting that this is to be increased to €135 million. Salto […]
The C-Band Alliance (CBA) used a letter to Senator John Kennedy, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and to Christopher Coons, a ranking member of the same committee. The letter was ostensibly to correct some misstatements made by two influential organisations. One “misrepresentation” came from David Williams of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance who in […]
Viewing figures for El Camino, the movie sequel to the celebrated Breaking Bad TV show, draw an around 6.5 million viewers for Netflix across its opening weekend in the US. The figures are based Nielsen’s SVOD Content Ratings, which measures streaming viewing figures in the US, where 40 per cent of Netflix’s global userbase resides. Around […]
Swedish sports rights agency Spring Media is partnering with Red Bee to launch Wnited – a global OTT service dedicated to women’s football. Going live in Q1 2020, Wnited will aggregate high-level multi-camera content from top tier leagues in Europe, Asia and the Americas as well as national team matches to global audiences. With both […]
Swarm Technologies, which in December 2018 was condemned by the FCC for ‘illegally’ launching 4 mini-satellites without approval and fined $900,000 as punishment, is now legal. The FCC has now approved California-based Swarm’s plan to launch an initial 150 of its sandwich-sized mini satellites – and perhaps as many as 600 over time – in […]
Movistar has entered into an alliance with airline companies Iberia and Air Europa to integrate their apps into its pay-TV platform to allow users to buy tickets and perform check-ins. Following the deal, the airline companies will enable Movistar subscribers to buy flight tickets through their respective TV apps, and via Movistar Home with the […]
AT&T has bought Clypd, the data-driven TV advertising platform. The operations will become part of the AT&T Xandr ad business and help provide more personalised ads for its streaming services. AT&T said Clypd will help the company improve the converged buying and selling for its streaming video services, help programmers automate advertisers through private or […]
Supponor, a global player in virtual advertising technology within live tier 1 sports, has announced the signing of a long-term agreement with FC Barcelona to supply their virtual advertising technology at all La Liga home games. Supponor’s virtual advertising technology increases the availability, relevance and value of pitch-side LED boards by creating new, regionalised inventory […]