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Motive Television, DME to pursue vertical markets

Motive Television PLC, the digital television technology, software and services provider, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Motive Television Services Limited, has signed an agreement with Digital Media Europe (DME), a UK sales and marketing consultancy, to pursue opportunities in the licensing and deployment of Motive’s Video2Go technology in vertical markets outside the television industry. […]

January 13, 2012

Seachange Infusion integrates Envivio encoding

Advanced advertising specialist SeaChange International has expanded its relationship with Envivio to offer SeaChange’s Infusion advanced advertising platform with the Envivio 4Caster C4 Gen III encoders, providing further options for multi-screen operators to monetise video delivered to Apple devices. The open Infusion platform enables targeted advertisements to be dynamically inserted into linear and on-demand video streams. Infusion enables video […]

January 12, 2012

Spain scraps ad ban on public TV?

The legal ban on advertising on RTVE may come to an end over the next few months as the new Government is considering its reintroduction. In a move to tackle the budget deficit, the Government has tightened the screws on RTVE by reducing by €200 million its state subsidy out of the total RTVE’s annual […]

January 11, 2012From David Del Valle in Madrid

MediaCom ads access Blinkbox

Video-on-demand film service Blinkbox has struck a deal with MediaCom to get exclusive access to the ad inventory on its connected platform. MediaCom’s clients, which include BskyB, will be able to run exclusive ads through Blinkbox’s platforms, including PC, PS3 and Samsung Smart TVs.

January 11, 2012

$22bn in US ads will move to VoD and new devices

Customers’ adoption of new viewing formats, including VoD and viewing on media tablets and smartphones, will cause up to $22 billion (30 per cent) of the US pay-TV advertising market to shift to new formats by 2016. Western Europe will see similar shifts, while the rest of world will lag in its transition of advertising […]

January 6, 2012

C4 takes over London underground for New Year

Channel 4 is to become the first advertiser to take over every digital screen on the London underground with a New Year’s Eve advertising campaign. The campaign, which showcases next year’s Channel 4’s shows, will include three 40-second video clips of its TV stars becoming “increasingly more debauched” over the course of the night. The […]

December 22, 2011

Rovi adds to Smart TV ad clients

Rovi has revealed that BT, Red Bull TV, Honda, and Ladbrokes will develop interactive campaigns to run on the Rovi Advertising Network as part of the Rovi Smart TV Advertising program. These companies join Channel 4, which was one of the first to join the Rovi Smart TV program in the UK. The Rovi UK […]

December 21, 2011

Global TV advertising to grow by $60bn

Global TV advertising grew by 3.5 per cent in 2011 to $154 billion, despite the Eurozone crisis (which hit Spain, Greece, Ireland and many Eastern European territories the hardest), natural disasters (Japan, Thailand, the Philippines and Turkey) and the Arab Spring revolts. In contrast, economic booms in Latin America and Asia Pacific led to significant […]

December 20, 2011

Five ad revenues up 28%

UK’s Channel 5 is set to record its biggest TV advertising take with revenue up 28 per cent to more than £350 million this year owing to shows like Big Brother. Channel 5 has managed to increase its year-on-year TV advertising sales by about £70 million – the broadcaster made about £280 million in TV […]

December 19, 2011

Video ad-spend surpasses 2011 forecasts

Break Media, a creator and publisher of digital video content, has published the findings of its annual Digital Video Advertising Trends study, which found that digital video advertising spending is up and expected to continue to increase throughout 2012. In addition to organic growth of budgets, the increase is projected to come from a number […]

December 16, 2011