In support of the Malaysian Government’s National Fiberisation and Connectivity Plan to drive higher adoption of broadband nationwide, two of the country’s leading brands, Astro and Maxis, have announced a strategic marketing partnership between both parties to offer bundled broadband with content. Astro will be launching new bundles of 30 Mbps and 100 Mbps broadband […]
FOX News Digital finished the month of July setting a record with its highest month ever in multi-platform views, securing 1.9 billion views (a 23 per cent increase from July 2018), and finishing at number one in the news competitive set for the sixth month in a row, according to Comscore. FOX News Digital also bested CNN.com in the […]
SpotX, the global video advertising and monetisation platform, has announced the availability of its latest Prebid adapter video header bidding solution. Prebid, the open source header bidding solution, will allow publishers using SpotX’s adapter to implement header bidding without commitment to any one supply-side platform or the use of proprietary wrappers. J. Allen Dove, Chief […]
AirTies, a supplier of managed in-home Wi-Fi solutions to service providers globally, is providing Quickline with a suite of Smart Wi-Fi solutions to support its residential customers across Switzerland. Quickline is a broadband, television, and telecom provider in Switzerland. Specifically, Quickline will use AirTies’ Remote Manager, a cloud-based optimisation tool that provides real-time visibility into […]
Sports Channel Network, the free to air AVoD channel available on Freeview and YouView, will stream highlights of the inaugural Scottish Women’s Tour cycling event in Scotland on August 25th as part of its strategy to become an accessible OTT destination for UK cycling fans. The event, which took place last weekend, was won by […]
In a long-anticipated move that they say creates a leading global, multiplatform, premium content company, positioned to be one of the most important content producers and providers in the world, entertainment companies CBS Corp and Viacom are to combine in an all-stock merger, creating a combined company with more than $28 billion in revenue. The […]
The saga of the Viacom and CBS relationship is a strange one, worthy of the most unlikely of soap operas, or the most outlandish of Greek myths. CBS gave birth to Viacom, then spun it off, then married it, then acrimoniously divorced it and, now, has married it again. In the 60s, CBS was the […]
Grabyo’s 2019 Sports Video Trends Report reveals that over half of global consumers watch sport on a regular basis, with 45 per cent of sports fans watching it more often than anything else. The report follows on from Grabyo’s 2019 Global Video Trends Report, which surveyed over 9690 people across the UK, US, France, Germany, […]
Julien Bergeaud has been appointed Director General of Mediapro France to head the setting up of a new French football-themed channel for the coming 2020-2021 season. Bergeaud, who until now had been responsible for the Discovery/Eurosport Group in France, has extensive experience in the design, development and management of sports themed channels, as well as […]
Sky TV customers can easily watch shows, movies, sports and now their recordings with the roll-out of the brand-new Sky Go app. The new app combines the existing Sky Q and Sky Go app features, allowing customers to watch content from Sky, ITV, Channel 4 and more in a single, easy-to-use experience. The app’s new […]