Sky and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) have announced an expanded long-term partnership, broadening their collaboration to bring WBD content to Sky and NOW customers in the UK and Ireland. Building on the current content available on Sky Cinema and Sky Atlantic, the new agreement will now include the ad-supported version of Max, WBD’s streaming service, […]
Euromedia November/December 2024 Test & Monitor is essential to consumer QoE and shielding the provider from avoidable Opex and Capex. What is the role of AI? Will we see a new era of ‘self-diagnosis’ and ‘self-healing’? Euromedia sought the views of a range of sector players. Read the article and the rest of the issue […]
With paid streaming totalling 1.8 billion subscriptions today, Ampere Analysis predicts over 2 billion subs will be taken up globally by 2029. This milestone will be achieved by combining US streaming giants’ international expansion and success at minimising password sharing. Further key highlights from the analysis: The milestone will come less than a decade after […]
At the end of Q3 2024, 4.6 million subscribers accessed pay-TV services in Portugal, a 1.7 per cent increase year-on-year – the slowest growth since 2006. According to data published by the National Communications Authority (Anacom), the pay-TV penetration rate reached 43.6 per cent, up from 43.4 per cent in Q2 2024. Optical fibre (FTTH/B) […]
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons is to hold an evidence session as part of its role to scrutinise the spending, policies and administration of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Lisa Nandy MP will be making her first appearance […]
Nearly three-quarters (73.2 per cent) of young adults (ie those aged 18-24 years old) in Spain watch pirate SVoD content, according to a report from consultancy firm GECA. The report reveals that piracy is a common practice in the country, with 45.4 per cent of people having access to illegal content. Movies (32.4 per cent), […]
Cloudflare, the connectivity cloud company, has published its fifth annual Year in Review, exploring global Internet insights and security trends during 2024, accompanied by a deeper dive on the most popular Internet services. Cloudflare’s 2024 Year in Review underscores how every year, as more people and devices connect to the Internet, global traffic surges (up […]
AST SpaceMobile has been licensed by media regulator Ofcom to start testing its satellite-based ‘direct-to-cellular’ (D2C) service in the UK. The licence is for six months starting on December 20th. Other national regulators have approved similar tests ahead of full service introductions. AST is working with Vodafone in the UK as its telco partner, although […]
Orbex, a main contractor and backer of the Sutherland, Scotland spaceport is moving its activity to rival Scottish launch site at SaxaVord in the Shetland Isles. Orbex says it has suspended construction at Sutherland. SaxaVord said cryptically via X: “SaxaVord Spaceport today welcomes Orbex to its growing stable of clients after the spaceflight company decided […]
Nscale, the hyperscaler engineered for AI, has raised $155 million (€146.4m) in Series A funding to accelerate expansion across Europe and North America. The oversubscribed funding round was led by Sandton Capital Partners, with participation from Kestrel, Bluesky Asset Management,and Florence Capital. Nscale develops sustainable AI-ready data centres, deploys massive-scale GPU infrastructure, and delivers high-performance […]