Streaming platforms are entering a new era where growth isn’t just about new subscribers — it’s about engaging the dedicated fans who already spend, watch, and explore content year-round. Now in its 20th year, Deloitte’s annual Digital Media Trends survey examines consumer preferences in the shifting media and entertainment landscape. This year’s survey finds that […]
Masayoshi Son, the head of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, was front and centre at a ground-breaking ceremony at Piketon, Ohio, on March 20th where the bank is to finance what is claimed to be the largest-ever AI data-centre complex in history. The $33 billion (€28.6bn) project is on the site on a former uranium enrichment facility. […]
Zayo Europe is providing connectivity infrastructure for one of the UK’s largest AI and cloud computing data centre campuses, a multi-billion project being developed by QTS in Cambois, Northumberland. At completion, the project would help to cement the UK’s position as a global AI leader, forming a key part of the nation’s AI Growth Zone strategy which seeks to develop world-class AI and cloud computing capabilities. When fully […]
US Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) have sent a letter to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo regarding Seedance 2.0’s “egregious” infringement of copyrighted materials belonging to American innovators. Senators Blackburn and Welch are calling on the Chinese company to immediately shut down this platform and comply with US copyright law. They contend that […]
Amagi, the cloud-native SaaS platform powering broadcast and streaming TV worldwide, has unveiled AI-driven Artwork Generation and Transformation as part of its industry cloud ingest-to-monetisation platform Amagi NOW — giving media companies the ability to go from raw video to fully formatted, platform-ready promotional artwork without ever leaving the Amagi platform. Built on Amagi Intelligence, […]
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) – the trade union representing professional writers across TV, film, theatre, radio, books, poetry, and video games – has welcomed the UK government’s report on copyright and AI released on March 18th. WGGB General Secretary Ellie Peers said: “Copyright and AI is an issue of huge importance to […]
Multiply, the AI-native media agency for B2B companies. has emerged from stealth with $9.5 million (€8.2m) in funding to introduce what it calls the next paradigm: Self-Learning Advertising, where ads use internal data to continuously get better on their own. The round was led by Mayfield, with participation from Sorenson Capital, Instacart Co-Founder Max Mullen, […]
The UK government has backtracked on its position on copyright and AI. Its original position – allowing AI companies to use copyrighted works to train their models with an opt-out option – received considerable backlash from the UK creative industry. “We have listened,” Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said, revealing the government no longer favours that […]
Tech giant Nvidia has revealed that it is working on a suite of new chipsets which will be combined with a processing computers for use in space and orbiting data-centres. “It’s going to start data-centers out in space. Of course, in space there’s no conduction, no convection, there’s just radiation, so we have to figure […]
The availability of full-fibre broadband almost everywhere will lay the foundations for productivity gains across the UK, according to Ofcom, which has finalised plans for how it will enable further competition and investment in the sector. Ofcom’s Telecoms Access Review, which builds on the regulator’s 2021 overhaul of how it regulates Openreach, sets out the […]