Signalling technology’s massive presence in sports, a record 26.42 terabytes of data was transferred within the stadium during Super Bowl LIV in Miami on February 2nd – an increase of 9.9 per cent from last year’s NFL championship game, despite being held at a smaller-capacity stadium with nearly 10,000 fewer fans Extreme Networks, the official […]
Real Madrid finished 2019 as the most visited football club website in the world for the fourth consecutive year, according to figures published by Comscore, the official Internet measurement firm. In a statement, the La Liga football team said: “These excellent audience results are a reflection of Real Madrid’s efforts in the club’s digital transformation […]
With awards season coming to a close this weekend with the Oscars, the show continues on at Pluto TV. The AVoD service is filling its UK programming with a premium selection of past award-winning and nominated films, TV series and documentaries. Throughout February (until March 1st), the UK channels Pluto TV Movies, Pluto TV Indies, […]
Flickerpix, one of Northern Ireland’s leading animation companies, has acquired the rights for the bestselling children’s fiction book series ‘Dirty Bertie’ with plans to develop a new 26 part animation TV series. Flickerpix is the animation arm of leading independent television production company Waddell Media and will be showcasing ‘Dirty Bertie’ at next week’s Kidscreen […]
Written and produced by Vicky Jones (Killing Eve, Fleabag), new half-hour comedy series Run (8 episodes), starts on April 15th on Sky Comedy and NOW TV. Run, from HBO, follows a woman whose humdrum life is thrown upside down when she receives a text from her college sweetheart inviting her to drop everything and meet […]
Following the results announcement that exceeded even Disney’s expectations, analyst firm Digital TV Research has upgraded its forecasts for Disney+. Disney+ will be the biggest SVoD winner over the next five years. Disney+ will add 105 million paying subscribers between end-2019 and 2025 to take its total to 126 million. Disney+ will reach 53 per […]
Later today (at 12pm EST) the FCC will issue its comments on proposals by the C-Band Alliance (CBA) as to the reallocation of satellite spectrum over the US. Bloomberg News is reporting that if the FCC’s decision is not favourable to the CBA, then Intelsat might enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and had instructed law practice […]
Omdia, the freshly-rebranded technology research group, has released a new research paper which it says connects the dots between the strategies, technologies, companies and market trends impacting industries as they transition to 5G. Covering areas as diverse as sports, autonomous vehicles, gaming, wireless components, IoT, cybersecurity and AI – this preview of the 5G developments […]
Findings from independent marketing and media consultancy Ebiquity suggest that linear TV is set to see around a 21 per cent fall in overall adult commercial impacts for advertisers by 2025. While brands can build incremental reach using online video, there is significant room to drive quality. The video-focused cross media measurement
Google Fiber, part of the Access division of Alphabet Inc, which provides gigabit fibre broadband Internet and IPTV to a number of locations in the US, will no longer be offering a traditional linear TV product to its new subscribers, saying it is happy to help everyone explore other options to get their favourite programming […]