Advanced Television

Netflix ‘Homemade’ films to show life in lockdown

Netflix has unveiled Homemade, a collection of short films created by celebrated filmmakers around the world. Confined at home as a consequence of the Covid-19 outbreak, filmmakers created personal stories that capture our shared experience of life in quarantine. Produced by The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle company, and Fabula, Homemade is a celebration of the […]

June 24, 2020

Honeycutt joins Blackbird board

Blackbird, the developer and seller of the cloud video editing platform Blackbird,  has announced that John Honeycutt will join the Board of the Company on June 24th as a Non-Executive Director. Honeycutt is a global Information and Media Technology leader who is an expert in cloud services, supply chain logistics and cyber security. He has […]

June 24, 2020

World’s Toughest Race in Fiji heads to Prime Video

World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji will launch on Amazon Prime Video on August 14th in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. This 10-episode adventure series, hosted by Bear Grylls and executive produced by Mark Burnett, tells the story of the ultimate expedition race, in which 66 teams from 30 countries race non-stop for 11 […]

June 24, 2020

Kim joins Genesys as CMO

Genesys, a global player in cloud customer experience and contact centre solutions, has appointed technology marketing executive, Joyce Kim, to the company’s leadership team as chief marketing officer (CMO). She succeeds Merijn te Booij, who now serves as general manager (GM) for the company’s new business unit, Employee Engagement Solutions. As CMO, Kim oversees worldwide […]

June 24, 2020

Apple orders The Afterparty

In a competitive situation, Apple has given a straight-to-series order for “The Afterparty,” a new comedy series from Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award winners Chris Miller and Phil Lord. “The Afterparty” is a murder-mystery comedy set at a high school reunion afterparty. Each of the eight episodes will feature a retelling of the […]

June 24, 2020

Sabio launches Validated Publishers for App Science TV

Sabio, the cross screen technology company behind App Science, has announced the launch of Validated Publishers for App Science TV, a connected TV (CTV) ad targeting platform that leverages robust mobile data to serve highly targeted ad units to streaming TV viewers. Validated Publishers for App Science TV is the next iteration of Sabio’s Validated […]

June 24, 2020

Disney+ launching in 8 more European countries

The Walt Disney Company’s Direct-to-Consumer & International segment has set September 15th as the launch date for Disney+ in eight new markets across Western and Northern Europe. The streaming service will launch in Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Belgium and Luxembourg and will retail at the following prices: €6.99 (monthly)/€69.99 (annually) in Portugal, Belgium, […]

June 23, 2020

Research: 1.5m Nordic homes plan to get Disney+

Disney+ will debut in the Nordics on September 15th and Mediavision research reveals that the interest for the service is already strong. Close to 1.5 million Nordic households claim they have plans to sign up. If they follow through on their plans, it would immediately make Disney one of the largest SVoD services in the […]

June 23, 2020

Movistar, MásMóvil shared networks deal

Movistar and MásMóvil, Spain’s first and fourth largest telcos respectively, have reached an agreement to share their networks. Thanks to the five year deal, MásMóvil will be able to cover around 500,000 new homes with FTTH and have access to future deployments of Movistar FTTH network across the country. The agreement will also allow MásMóvil […]

June 23, 2020From David Del Valle in Madrid

Study: Full Fibre key to NI economic recovery

UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach, who builds and maintains the largest fixed communications network in Northern Ireland (NI), has reached a significant milestone, with 360,000 homes and businesses – more than 40 per cent of properties – now able to access Full Fibre broadband at speeds of up to 1 Gbps. The milestone achievement comes […]

June 23, 2020By Colin Mann