Advanced Television

Digital Envoy introduces LocID

Digital Envoy, a pioneer of IP intelligence and high-quality, consent-based location data, today announces the launch of LocID, a groundbreaking geospatial ID that overcomes the challenges of IP address geolocation volatility across digital advertising.    The impact of IP address volatility and the resulting drop in performance creates significant mistrust across advertisers. In a typical […]

January 6, 2025

Law&Crime announces coverage of CNN defamation trial

Legal and true crime network Law&Crime will serve as the sole pool camera in the major trial of Zachary Young vs CNN, scheduled to begin at the 14th Judicial Circuit Court in Panama City, Florida this week. The cable news network faces civil claims of defamation stemming from a news report that allegedly implied that […]

January 6, 2025

Inscape, TVision extend data partnership

VIZIO’s Inscape, a provider of currency-grade smart TV data, and TVision, the company measuring every second of TV and CTV viewer engagement, announced they have extended their data partnership. The multi-year agreement provides immediate benefits to the entire media ecosystem. Leveraging TVision’s passive measurement panel enriches Inscape’s nationally-representative households based on 24+ million opted-in devices. […]

January 6, 2025

Italy: Prime Video makes gains on Netflix

In September 2024, 15.87 million unique users accessed SVoD services in Italy, an increase of 567,000 compared to the same period a year earlier. According to Italy’s Communications Authority (AgCom), Netflix experienced a 7.3 per cent annual decline in unique users to 8.1 million but still remained the platform with the most subscribers. Second-placed Prime […]

January 3, 2025From Branislav Pekic in Rome

US court voids net neutrality regulations

A US court has rejected the Biden administration’s bid to restore net neutrality rules that would have prevented operators from prioritising traffic carried over their networks. On January 2nd, the court ruled that the federal government does not have the authority to regulate internet providers like utilities. The rules were first introduced in 2015 by […]

January 3, 2025

Report: House of the Dragon most torrented show of 2024

House of the Dragon has claimed the dubious honour of being the most-pirated TV show released on torrent sites in 2024, according to data from TorrentFreak. The Game of Thrones prequel series from HBO replaces The Last of Us, also from HBO, which topped the chart in 2023. Prime Video’s The Boys took second spot, […]

January 3, 2025

France: Orange, Free strike Disney+ deals

French telcos Orange and Free have struck non-exclusive deals with Disney+, which started on January 1st, shortly after the US streaming platform exited from Canal+ packages. These distribution agreements will give OTT subscribers access to the SVoD service as well as two linear channels (Disney Channel, National Geographic) and films from Disney’s studios. The deal secured with […]

January 3, 2025From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Gavin & Stacey finale most-watch UK scripted show ever

Gavin & Stacey: The Finale is the UK’s most-watched scripted show across all broadcasters and streamers since current records began in 2002, with ratings already at 19.3 million according to the latest data shared by the BBC. The special Christmas episode broke the show’s own record from the 2019 special which reached 18.5 million viewers […]

January 3, 2025

Spotify launches Partner Programme

Spotify, the audio streaming platform, has launched the Spotify Partner Programme, a new monetisation system for creators in the UK, US, Canada and Australia. “With more than 640 million users and more than 250 million subscribers, Spotify is one of the largest platforms in the world for creators. We’re also continuously building new offerings to […]

January 3, 2025

India close to spectrum decision on D2C

Imagine the challenges – and pressure – on India’s assorted regulators when you have the likes of local billionaires Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Reliance, Sunil Mittel’s Airtel as well as two outsiders in Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Each and everyone of them are pushing regulators to open up spectrum for their satellite services: Jio is […]

January 3, 2025By Chris Forrester