There’s been massive coverage of Netflix these past few days, with analysts agonising what impact a price hike might have on its revenues and profits and how quickly the price rises might spread to their International markets. That’s understandable, but a very timely report from the media team at investment bank Berenberg suggests that it […]
Digital Catapult, a technology innovation centre that unlocks digital growth in the UK economy, and national development body Arts Council England, have announced an Open Call for a new cohort of content creators to join CreativeXR, a programme aimed at supporting the development of new virtual, augmented and mixed reality experiences within the creative industries. […]
Brazil is the fifth-largest media market in the world, after China, India, the US and Indonesia. Understanding what’s driving video subscription and consumption behaviours is a crucial step in successfully mapping the future of the country’s content and distribution businesses. Connected consumers in Brazil are interested in viewing content in non-traditional ways, which will put […]
Broadband usage in Europe and the United States continued to accelerate at similar paces throughout 2018 and Amazon made substantial year-end inroads into consumers’ device ecosystems, according to broadband industry analytics and technology solutions provider OpenVault. OpenVault’s data suggests that both average and median data usage for 2018 increased when compared with both 2017 statistics. […]
OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture between Airbus and OneWeb, has announced the delivery of the first satellites for the OneWeb constellation. The satellites were manufactured at the OneWeb Satellites facility on the Airbus Defence and Space Toulouse site and the first six have been shipped to Kourou for launch. The first launch of the mega […]
Media giant Naspers will spin off its MultiChoice pay-TV division and with a stock market listing on the Johannesburg exchange on February 27th. It will list in the ‘broadcasting and entertainment’ section. MultiChoice is a media conglomerate in its own right and owns the DStv, M-Net, SuperSport and Showmax brands and divisions. MultiChoice, in a […]
Hispasat, the Spanish telecommunications satellite operator, together with the telecommunications services provider Media Broadcast Satellite have agreed a deal with an initial duration of five years to distribute FunBox UHD in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EMEA). The channel, which belongs to the content provider SPI International, is a thematic channel about nature, […]
Comcast Cable Advertising, a division of Comcast Corporation, has launched the next phase of Blockgraph, an industry initiative designed to create a secure way to use data and share information. Comcast is now working with other industry partners on this initiative, including Viacom and Spectrum Reach, the advertising sales division of Charter Communications, in a […]
From January 24th the first eSports channel in German, eSPORTS1, is going live. The channel eSPORTS1 will be available in the German-language channel package MySports Pro and will include at least 1,200 live hours of eSports events annually, as well as highlight broadcasts and magazine programmes produced in-house. The programme contents will be editorially prepared […]
The Czech ad tech company R2B2, which operates a digital ad network, has compiled an overview of the trends in pricing and performance for selected ad formats in the year 2018. The data comes from the RTB Index that R2B2 publishes on a monthly basis. The RTB Index is a monthly report that monitors the […]