Research from Ampere Analysis has found that Covid-19’s negative impact on box office revenue will provide incentives to accelerate the move towards new movie windowing models. Disney’s announcement that the much-anticipated Mulan will no longer be
Tony Hall, Director-General of the BBC, has revealed the Corporation’s ambition to reach a global audience of one billion by the end of the 2020s, going beyond his original aim of doubling its global audience to reach 500 million people by 2022. Delivering the Opening Address of the Edinburgh International Television Festival via Zoom, Hall […]
Video-sharing app TikTok is preparing to launch legal action to challenge a ban imposed by US President Donald Trump. Trump’s executive order prohibits transactions with TikTok’s owner ByteDance from mid-September. Officials in Washington are concerned that the Chinese-owned company could pass data on US users to its own government – something ByteDance has denied doing. […]
UK commercial PSB ITV is to partner with identity infrastructure provider InfoSum as part of a new first-party data strategy that will make its 30 million ITV Hub subscribers available for advertisers to match against and activate as target audiences via a secure and compliant solution without either party needing to exchange first party data […]
The official Committee of OneWeb’s unsecured creditors is objecting to the current Chapter 11 exit reorganisation plan for OneWeb. In a filing to the US Bankruptcy Court they argue that the disclosure statement from OneWeb “lacks adequate information of particular importance to the unsecured creditors.” The submission to the Court stresses that they are in […]
Samsung continued to dominate TV shipments globally during Q2 even though actual volumes shipped declined slightly compared with the same period in 2019. In the same period, Chinese multinational electronics brand TCL leapfrogged LG Electronics into the Number 2 spot. The latest update of the DiScien Monthly Global TV Shipment Report covers quarterly TV shipments […]
India State Research Organsation (ISRO) said last week that it wasn’t going to be privatised. But that hasn’t stopped plans to bring the private sector into many of its current functions. India’s government is now creating a batch of changes and reforms which will result in greater participation of India’s creative public sector and industries […]
Scotland’s ‘Space hub Sutherland’ has gained planning approval to build the rocket launch facility. Development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) intends to create Space Hub Sutherland on land owned by Melness Crofters Estate on the A’ Mhòine peninsula, south of Tongue. HIE had submitted plans in February this year, including an extensive environmental impact […]
The fourth year of operation proved to be record-breaking for the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Channel. Since launching in August 2016, the Olympic Channel global media destination has produced more than 25,000 pieces of video content representing all Olympic sports disciplines and 206 countries, including 76 original series and films, resulting in more than 3.3 […]
The new single from K-Pop boy band BTS, titled Dynamite, has set YouTube records. The dance-heavy video to accompany the single was watched 101.1 million times in 24 hours after its release on Augist 21st. That surpasses the previous record, set by fellow K-Pop band Blackpink, whose song How You Like That clocked up 86.3 […]