Audience insights supplier GlobalWebIndex has shared the findings of its research into the trends that will shape consumer behaviour throughout 2020. Against a backdrop of economic shocks, from the US-China trade war to the German economy’s weak performance in recent quarters, one of the most surprising findings of the Trends 2020 report is the strength […]
Altice Europe, the telco and cable group controlled by Franco-Israeli tycoon Patrick Drahi, reported better-than-expected Q3 results, driven by the turnaround of its French subsidiary. Group revenue over the period was up 6.3 per cent on a comparable basis from a year ago to €3.67 billion, while core operating profits advanced by 8.2 per cent […]
Joe and Anthony Russo, the co-directors behind the Marvel blockbucter movie Avengers: Endgame, will be part of a team adapting Reed Tucker’s book, Slugfest: Inside The Epic, 50-year Battle Between Marvel And DC, into a new documentary series for Quibi. Tucker’s book, published in 2017, looked at the rise and history of the two most […]
Russian news-service TASS is reporting that despite “dozens” of criminal cases and serious penalties, there remains on-going corruption concerns at the Vostochny ‘Far East’ Russian rocket launch site. TASS quotes President Putin saying: “It has been stated a hundred times: you must work transparently because large funds are allocated. This project is actually of the […]
Arash Pendari, Founder and Creative Director at Vionlabs, has offered his insights on how streaming services will benefit from AI in 2020 and beyond. Vionlabs is a media and entertainment technology company that was founded to solve the issue of online video viewers spending too much screen time looking for something they want to watch. […]
The DPP, the media industry’s business network, today launched a major new initiative to promote environmentally sustainable practices among suppliers and content providers. The DPP Committed to Sustainability Programme provides a self-assessment checklist that enables companies to record their progress in implementing sustainability policies, and awards them a score out of five. Completion of the […]
Amino has been unveiled by Netflix as a Hailstorm Partner during the APAC Android TV Summit in Bangkok. Hailstorm is the Netflix initiative designed to reduce the effort of integration and time-to-market for partners looking to launch Netflix services as part of their consumer offering. In a blog post, Amino said: Being asked to join […]
Vianeos, a provider of IPTV and OTT solutions, and Sunrise, the largest non-state-controlled telco in Switzerland, have announced the launch of the TV NEO application on the Tizen platform for Samsung smart TVs. The Sunrise TV NEO offer is an OTT subscription service allowing TV viewers to watch content on several devices such as mobile, […]
Emma Dunseith has been appointed as Head of Content Production for BBC Northern Ireland. She takes over the role from Eddie Doyle who was recently appointed as Head of Content Commissioning for BBC Northern Ireland. The appointment will see Dunseith play an integral role in the delivery of BBC Northern Ireland’s content across all in-house […]
Amazon Studios has greenlit the one-hour drama, The Peripheral, based on The New York Times-bestselling novel by William Gibson, from the critically-acclaimed writers, producers, and directors Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (Westworld), their company Kilter Films, and Warner Bros Television. The Peripheral will launch globally on Amazon Prime Video. The Peripheral centres on Flynne Fisher, a […]