4iG is expanding its telecom portfolio in the Western Balkans region, after entering into a definitive sale and purchase agreement to acquire an 80.27 per cent stake in ALBtelecom from Cetel Telecom, a majority-owned subsidiary of Turkey’s Çalik Holding. The Albanian state will continue to exercise its minority ownership rights in the company through the […]
After just two weeks of broadcasting, CNN Portugal has achieved the leading position among news channels in Portugal, with a 2.3 per cent share. CNN Portugal was the leading news channel in 11 of its first 12 days on air, and led in nearly all time slots and among all age groups, reports Portuguese daily […]
Whip Media’s latest white paper, The OTT Binge-Watching Phenomenon, in partnership with VOD Professional’s Kauser Kanji, provides an in-depth look at viewers’ bingeing habits across the globe. The white paper is based on more than 32,000 responses across 7 countries – The US, US, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Sweden – from users on the […]
Netflix subscribers globally can now remove a TV show or movie from their ‘Continue Watching’ row on all devices, including TV, with the click of a button. Users can click on a show or film, and select ‘Remove from Continue Watching; from the page options. If users should change their mind, they can also undo […]
The European Commission has welcomed the political agreement reached by the European Parliament and EU Member States on the new Roaming Regulation. The new regulation will prolong until 2032 the existing system whereby citizens cannot be subject to extra charges for calls or data used while travelling within the EU and it will also bring […]
Unruly, a global video and Connected TV (CTV) programmatic advertising platform, has revealed the most emotionally engaging UK Christmas ads of 2021 using its content testing tool, UnrulyEQ, including John Lewis, Coca-Cola, Selfridges, McDonald’s, Marks and Spencer, Lidl, Coca Cola and more. The ad with the highest emotional impact was Disney’s The Stepdad, a 3-minute […]
DCMN, the growth marketing partner for digital brands, has released its global Growth Guide: a new report looking at marketers’ goals, strategies and challenges going into 2022. The results point to a new period of growth for the industry: 66 per cent of marketers surveyed expect their budgets to increase next year, with this figure […]
French satellite operator Eutelsat will continue to broadcast Cameroon’s public TV channel CRTV – one of the country’s most influential media outlets – and its other channels, until 2023, according to news that emerged from Africa Intelligence. Eutelsat is also working with NuRAN Wireless to connect up and backhaul from an eventual 242 planned cellular […]
RTL Group has announced that Christophe Goossens has been appointed CEO of the Group’s Luxembourg-based technical service provider, Broadcasting Center Europe (BCE), effective immediately. He will take over the leadership of BCE in addition to his role as CEO of RTL Luxembourg. Fred Lemaire, currently CEO of BCE, will become Chief Operating Officer (COO) of […]
Premier Media Broadcasting and Samsung have announced that FreeSports is now available on the Samsung TV Plus platform in the UK, where viewers can watch free live sports every day from around the world featuring football, cricket, motorsport, rugby union, rugby league, pool, ice hockey and more. The free, ad-supported service is available to all […]