French OTT live and catch-up TV platform Molotov has announced 10 million users, three years after its launch. In 2020, the service intends to add new functionalities for viewers as well as monetising tools for content owners. A SmartPaywall will help channels to offer paid content, whilst the SmartAdServing will help those serving advertising. In […]
Two US cellular giants are supporting the C-Band Alliance’s request for incentive payments to be made and thus speedily free up spectrum for 5G deployment for the US. Investment bank Exane/BNPP, in a note to clients, said that their valuation model for C-band remains unchanged. “According to Verizon the FCC’s broad spectrum management authority and […]
Virgin Media has called out BT’s “unsubstantiated” advertising with a provocative stunt that it says “highlights the strength of Virgin Media’s network and its continued speed superiority over the UK’s telecoms incumbent”. BT’s billboards, which are currently deployed in Bristol, claim that residents in the area shouldn’t “settle for Virgin”. Virgin Media has responded with […]
OneWeb’s first major cluster of 34 satellites have been integrated on top of the Soyuz ST-B/Fregat-M rocket at Baikonur in Kazakhstan, and ready for launch on February 7th, weather permitting. OneWeb place 6 test satellites into orbit on February 27th 2019 (although they were launched from Kourou by Arianespace in French Guiana). This upcoming launch […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic streaming company, is reorganising NENT Studios – its content production and distribution business that comprises 32 companies in 17 countries – into a new organisation focused on scripted drama production, both series and movies, and distribution. As part of the reorganisation, the unscripted production, branded entertainment and events […]
RT (formerly Russia Today) is the #1 most-watched TV news network on YouTube, with a record-setting 10 billion views as well as more than 16 million subscribers. The total number of views from across RT’s channels on YouTube has put the network ahead of all the news channels of the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, Euronews, […]
Jeff Bezos’ mega-constellation Project Kuiper is advertising (at ‘Amazon Jobs’) for a “Senior Opto-Mechanical Engineer”. This is just one position amongst many which suggests that Project Kuiper is dramatically ramping up its hiring, and with a specification that calls for laser linking between satellites. This position needs a talent to fulfil a task specified as: […]
Roku has announced a Roku OS software update that will enable surround sound expansion of its Roku Smart Soundbars, making it easy for its customers to use Roku TV Wireless Speakers to expand their systems with room-filling multichannel sound for TV, movies and music. “We want to simplify home theatre the same way we simplified […]
UKTV’s comedy channel Dave has launched a TikTok account and partnered with marketing agency Fanbytes to deliver its first campaign. Fanbytes will work with its network of influencers to create a content challenge for the launch of Hypothetical, Dave’s panel show hosted by James Acaster and Josh Widdicombe where comedians are posed absurd hypothetical situations […]
According to Strategy Analytics, global 5G smartphone shipments reached 19 million units in 2019. Demand was much higher than expected. Huawei holds first position with 37 per cent global 5G smartphone marketshare, followed by Samsung in second place at 36 per cent share. Ken Hyers, Director at Strategy Analytics, said: “Global 5G smartphone shipments grew […]