BT Sport claims it is delivering another broadcasting first by making its biggest live matches available in 4K and high dynamic range (HDR) picture quality on some of the most popular smart TVs, games consoles and streaming devices. BT Sport Ultimate launched earlier in 2019 to BT TV and EE pay monthly customers, enabling them […]
Local TV and smaller cable operators have partnered to launch a new OTT platform, Zapi, aimed at becoming the fourth such service in Spain. The OTT service is backed by Plataforma Multimedia de Operadores, integrated by local TV Associations Acutel and Aotec, Opencable and PYV Telecom. The platform has an agreement with software provider Mirada […]
Connected TV (CTV) continues to dominate video advertising, reveals the latest Video Benchmarks Report from asset management solution provider Extreme Reach (ER). In Q3 2019, CTV maintained its steady growth, accounting for 51 per cent of all video ad impressions served by ER’s AdBridge platform, continuing the climb from 49 per cent in Q1 and […]
The UK’s Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK) – the voice of the UK Internet industry to policy makers, the media and the public – has responded to the launch of the Labour Party’s General Election manifesto which has formalised its previously—announced policy of renationalising parts of the UK industry, including BT’s infrastructure subsidiary Openreach, […]
Sky Deutschland chairman Carsten Schmidt has confirmed he will step down from the role at the end of the year. He will remain with the company as senior advisor through 2020 whilst Devesh Raj, formerly Sky Continental Europe COO and interim Sky Deutschland CCO, will become chairman of the executive board. Schmidt has been with […]
Search advertising now accounts for nearly a quarter of every ad dollar, despite slowing overall growth and a flatlining share of all internet advertising, while voice and visual search are yet to materialise in a meaningful way. This is according to WARC’s Global Advertising Trends report, which finds that investment in search advertising will rise […]
Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – has revealed major new research by Gain Theory, MediaCom and Wavemaker, together with a new cross-media optimisation tool based on its findings. The Demand Generation study is an econometric analysis of £1.4 billion (€1.63bn) of media spend by 50 brands across 10 forms […]
Eurojust, Europol and the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA), representing the industry of protected audiovisual content, have joined forces to improve the sharing of expertise to tackle audio-visual piracy via IPTV networks. More than 70 judicial and law enforcement authorities from EU Member States and representatives from the two EU agencies discussed, during a two-day seminar […]
If Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have their way the planet’s heavens will soon be populated with tens of thousands of new Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites. Musk is due to launch 60 of his ‘Starlink’ satellites in the next day or two. The International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) World Radio Communication Conference-19 (WRC-19) in Sharm […]
Following an investigation by Cornwall Council Trading Standards into illegal television streaming services, a local man has admitted copyright and fraud charges at Truro Magistrates Court in the southwest of England. Steven Underwood (also known as Steven Isaac) faced two charges under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Fraud Act 2006 after […]