Due to what Sky Media describes as “overwhelming interest” in its AdSmart SME Support Scheme, it has announced it will provide an additional 150 businesses with targeted TV advertising support. The initial SME100 campaign now becomes SME250 as Sky Media invests a total of £2.5 million into the fund, bringing the total number of small […]
Smart TV data company Inscape is expanding its suite of data offerings through the creation of a National Representative Panel (NRP). The provider of automatic content recognition (ACR) data, which recently surpassed a consumer opt-in footprint of 15 million Smart TVs in the US, says it is continuing to enable new use cases for media […]
Witbe, a specialist in Quality of Experience Testing and Monitoring and Testronic experts in international quality assurance (QA), localisation QA, and compliance for the film, television and games industries, have signed a strategic partnership to develop automated QA and Quality of Experience (QoE) services to platforms and content owners. Witbe has developed a technology based […]
Celtic Football Club has announced it will engage with Sunset+Vine Scotland, the Glasgow based division of the UK’s independent TV sports production and media company, to be its production partner. The appointment is to produce matchday programming as part of a televised ticket offering to supporters, were they unable to access Celtic Park for any […]
SPI/FilmBox and Bulgarian telecom operator Telecable have struck their first ever channel distribution deal. Telecable subscribers will now have access to ten of SPI international’s channels, including their flagship movie channel FilmBox. Viewers will get to enjoy four movie channels – FilmBox, FilmBox Extra, FilmBox Plus and FilmBox Arthouse – and a wide range of […]
W4free, the ad-supported streaming service featuring quality TV series, documentaries, and movies, has completed feature film licensing deals with Kaleidoscope, Platform Entertainment, The Film Consortium and Icon Film Distribution, which between them add over 100 titles to the company’s new film offering. The films will be made available to W4Free registered users in the UK […]
Sky Original, Ich und die Anderen, (‘Me and the Others in English’) resumed production in Austria this week, after suspending shooting due to COVID-19 in mid-March. The restart in Vienna, under strict COVID-19-safe guidelines as set out in Austrian regulations, marks the first Sky Original and Sky Studios show to return to production. Only five […]
A global poll of broadcasters from virtualised media production specialist Nevion has found that over a third (39 per cent) of respondents expect their organisation will be ready to adopt 5G within a year, while a further 53 per cent believe they will be able to do so within the following year. The survey, conducted […]
Telxius, the infrastructure unit of the Telefónica Group, has reached an agreement with German mobile operator Telefónica Deutschland for the acquisition of nearly 10,100 sites, which it says consolidates its position as one of the main global neutral infrastructure operators. The agreement includes a commitment to build 2,400 new Base Transceiver Station (BTS) sites, ensuring […]
Ahead of the highly anticipated UFC 250: NUNES vs. SPENCER in Las Vegas, UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, strengthened its multi-platform content offering by teaming up with cloud video platform Grabyo. UFC began utilizing Grabyo’s cloud-native platform to distribute live and real-time video optimized content for their global digital and social channels […]