Telenor, the Norwegian multinational telco, has reported that subscription and traffic revenues declined by 1 per cent in the fourth quarter on an organic basis, while total revenues remained stable. Total reported revenues were NOK 28.2 billion (€2.9bn), which is a decrease of 2 per cent. Organic subscription and traffic revenue growth for the year […]
Pandora stockholders have approved the sale of their music business to pay-radio service SiriusXM in a $3.5 billion deal. But Pandora’s CEO Roger Lynch will leave once the deal wraps. Lynch joined in September 2017, from Echostar. Some 97 per cent of the Pandora votes cast were in favour of the sale. In a note […]
According to Gov.uk more than £20 million is being injected into the UK’s increasing number of creative industries, in order to attract new talent, scale up businesses, boost skills and provide further education. The creative industries are currently a motor of growth within local economies spanning across the UK, not just in London and the […]
A study by GlobalWebIndex, conducted amongst 1,885 UK consumers aged 18-64 ahead of the Six Nations tournament in February, reveals burgeoning popularity for the sport in the UK with two in five respondents now identifying as fans of the tournament. With the Rugby World Cup taking place in September, 2019 promises to be a year […]
To provide market insight on understanding the development and consumption of audio services in France, Médiamétrie is launching Global Audio, a measurement service that captures all usages across the audio environment. Global Audio surveys 4,000 online users aged 15 and older about their audio consumption of radio (FM, live and catch-up), music streaming and personal […]
Matrix Solutions, the global ad sales platform built for media, has formed a new alliance with Aspirant, a global management consulting and technology firm. This relationship seek to provides global media enterprises with greater customisation capabilities within Monarch’s full ad platform and reporting and analytic modules, as well as additional system integrations and other workflow […]
Kudelski Security, the cybersecurity division of the Kudelski Group, has launched its Blockchain Security Center (BSC), making available its cryptography expertise into the rapidly evolving blockchain developer community. Expanding upon the company’s security services, the BSC will provide new offerings and has a concrete roadmap to develop foundational technologies that help integrate security into and […]
Discovery has announced the appointment of veteran talent relations executive Cindy Mori to Vice President of Global Talent Management and Corporate Talent Development, based in Los Angeles. Mori moves into this new corporate position with three decades of experience cultivating world-class talent through her industry-wide relationships in all areas of the entertainment, news, literary and […]
ALi Corporation, a STV chipset provider, Dish TV India Limited, India’s largest DTH operator, and Handan, a supplier of multimedia and home entertainment devices in Korea, have further extended their partnership by launching the latest hybrid solution, Dish Box, to enrich TV experience for subscribers in India. The new STB developed by the partnership will […]
Bloomberg Media Group is launching TRIGR TV, an innovative ad solution that brings the flexibility and real-time adaptation of digital advertising to linear broadcast television. Powering TRIGR TV is a new patent-pending technology called Bloomberg Interlink, an overdue breakthrough in television advertising. Bloomberg Interlink serves as a “bridge” that connects a traditional broadcast television system […]