Research by Ampere Analysis reveals that the growth of streaming services has intensified competition across the TV landscape driving an upsurge in content spend. Ampere found that global spend on TV, film and sports content expanded from $100 billion (€89.91bn) to $165 billion between 2008 and 2018 – a 65 per cent increase. Nearly $50 […]
DAZN and Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions will join forces in a global creative partnership. The first project will be the launch of a new feature documentary series called ONE NIGHT, a group of films looking back at indelible nights in recent boxing history. Additional projects and details will be announced in the coming months. The […]
Apple has added Amazon Fire to the platforms on which its TV service is available for launch. The App is added the Fire TV Stick 4k, the 2nd generation Fire TV Stick and the Fire TV Basic Edition. The announcement follows similar launches on Roku dongles and Samsung smart TVs – with support for LG, […]
Poor mobile phone coverage is set to be a thing of the past as the UK Government champions a £1 billion (€1.16bn) deal with the mobile phone industry to banish rural ‘not-spots’, with the plans for all operators to share phone masts to improve UK coverage being described as a “world first”. The move will […]
Analysts at investment bank Berenberg suggest that there’s “continued weakness in the German economy”. “We have now had several warnings from Axel Springer, New Work is growing more slowly, and ProSiebenSat.1’s management has also indicated that the advertising market is being negatively affected by the poor economic climate in Germany, even if the consumer has […]
European insights from D-Link have revealed developments in who traditionally owns, buys and uses consumer electronics and gadgets the most in the modern smart home – as more than half of women (55 per cent) across Europe say that they take the lead on tech in their families. The research from D-Link, a specialist in […]
Jonathan Ross took to the Centre Stage at MCM Comic Con in London to introduce the UK premieres of two new anime series – In/Spectre and Somali and the Forest Spirit. Both titles will be available exclusively on the Crunchyroll anime streaming platform early in 2020. Legendary chat show host Ross, a well renowned anime […]
The stars of new DC Comics TV series Pennyworth took to the Centre Stage at MCM Comic Con as fans were treated to a screening of the pilot episode. The series has been acquired by SVoD service StarzPlay, who will stream the show in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria and Latin […]
Reportedly Maxar Technologies and Thales-Alenia Space have scrubbed their joint-venture plan to bid for Ottawa-based Telesat’s mega-constellation satellite order. The pair were competing against Airbus Defence & Space for the order. Now they will bid separately for the order for a 300-satellite Low Earth orbiting constellation, said to be worth around $3 billion to the […]
The BBC may not be sustainable in its current form, if it fails to regain younger audiences who are increasingly tuning out of its services, according to UK broadcast regulator Ofcom, which has published its annual report on the Corporation, assessing its performance over the period April 2018 to March 2019. Ofcom finds that the […]