Amazon Studios has greenlit the Untitled Priyanka Chopra Jonas & Nick Jonas Sangeet Project, an unscripted series executive produced by the famous couple and inspired by the sangeet – an Indian pre-wedding tradition. The sangeet takes place the night before the ceremony, bringing together the families of the betrothed for a performance-filled evening of song […]
ATEME, the emerging player in video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable, DTH, IPTV and OTT, has announced that TV CULTURA, the Brazilian public broadcaster recognized worldwide for producing educational and cultural content, and part of Fundação Padre Anchieta, successfully implemented ATEME TITAN to realize 4K benefits for the first time during the live broadcast of […]
Promethean, a digital solution to dynamically programme interactive video overlays, has announced its collaboration with True Digital Group, the South East Asian leader in content and digital platforms, to release the new version of the TrueID TV Box application across South East Asia. TrueID TV Box is the new set top box from one of […]
Discovery has pulled all of its channels from Dubai-based pay-platform OSN “with immediate effect”. A statement from Discovery said: “Discovery regrets to advise that despite negotiating in good faith for several months it has been forced to cease broadcast of our channels on OSN. Channels going dark include Discovery Channel, TLC, Discovery Science and Investigation […]
FandangoNOW, the US VoD service from movie-focused digital service Fandango, has launched an on-demand movies and TV store on Facebook’s home video calling device, Portal TV. The new FandangoNOW store will provide Portal TV users access to more than 100,000 new release and catalogue movies and next-day TV shows to rent or buy, no subscription […]
Addressable TV advertising will leap from $15.6 billion (€14bn) in total worldwide revenue in 2019 to almost six times that value at $85.5 billion by 2025, according to a Rethink TV report. This reflects advertising dollars switching to addressable as the platforms mature and better understood by the advertising community. This boom in addressable TV […]
Netflix has revealed that over 26 million accounts watched its epic mob movie, The Irishman, in its first week of release. The streaming giant has also estimated that this figure will rise to 40 million accounts by the end of the year. The movie, which went live on November 27th, received widespread critical acclaim, with […]
Data published by Kantar shows that once again, reality and entertainment television has driven the highest level of social media engagement over the past year, closely followed by current affairs programmes. Kantar measured engagement amongst UK viewers between December 1st 2018 and November 30th 2019, using the Kantar Social TV Ratings tool. Over the 12-month […]
Advertising video on-demand (AVoD) service providers in the US are bracing themselves as media giants including Disney+ and Apple TV+ join the latest wave of competitors. Armed with a massive fan base and exclusive in-house content, these huge media firms are upping the ante, drawn by an increasingly lucrative market, according to IHS Markit | […]
As the holiday season is well underway, advertisers feel the pressure to deliver successful campaigns, and as TV advertising accounts for about half of all holiday ad spend, it is crucial to understand how TV advertising has performed for brands during the festive season in the past. To answer exactly that, TVSquared analysed millions in […]