MarketCast has announced the appointment of Zoë Friend to its senior leadership team as Senior Vice President of Custom Research and Insights. In her new role, Friend will lead MarketCast’s custom research practice across all of its business segments and will be responsible for guiding its future direction, growing and nurturing the team, and elevating […]
Bed Guru, the sleep specialist, has delved deep into Netflix show data for 10 cities in the UK to find out which content was most popular on Netflix during the second lockddown. Bed Guru compared search interest from Google Trends of TV shows during lockdown to the previous month when the UK was out of […]
All Raise, a VC fund to focus on women’s equality, has this week raised $11 million toward a target of $15 million from backers including Pivotal Ventures, the investment firm of Melinda Gates; the Reid Hoffman Foundation; and GGV Capital. The money will fund expansion plans for the next three years, said Pam Kostka, All […]
Global retro game streaming service Antstream Arcade has announced a partnership with Polish mobile operator Play. Enabling Play customers to stream Antstream’s thousands of iconic games, this tie-up is the first time a telco provider in Central Eastern Europe has bundled video game streaming into its content offering. As part of the collaboration, Play subscribers […]
Comscore, a partner for planning, transacting, and evaluating media across platforms, and MediaMath, the independent advertising technology company, have partnered to launch a connected TV (CTV) and video contextual targeting solution for the open exchange programmatic landscape available now globally in MediaMath’s demand-side platform. This capability uses frame-by-frame visual recognition and second-by-second audio processing to […]
GeoGuard has announced that TV3 Group, the Baltics media group, has selected GeoGuard DB, its ‘Hollywood Studio Approved; VPN and proxy detection solution to protect the premium content delivered via TV3 Group’s next generation television Go3 from geo-piracy. Go3, which serves Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, will use GeoGuard’s proven solution to remain compliant with studio […]
This Christmas the curtain will be raised on a special, virtual version of Cinderella, as a host of famous faces gather for Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime For Christmas, on BBC Two and iPlayer. Written by the Dawson Brothers, based on an original script by Ben Crocker, the show will be a retelling of the […]
Ofcom has granted a licence for Rupert Murdoch to launch a new TV news service in the UK. The channel, simply branded News UK, will now go live next year, with a spring launch mooted. Although no on-screen talent has yet been revealed for the “opinionated” new channel, rumoured names include Piers Morgan and Lord […]
Gerry O’Sullivan, Eutelsat’s EVP/Global TV & Video, has left the satellite operator to take on new opportunities nearer his UK home. He has been in the post at Eutelsat since 2017, commuting to and from its Paris office from his London home. Eutelsat staff were informed via an internal announcement. O’Sullivan was instrumental in launching […]
Zoopla, the UK property destination, has analysed cities in the UK to find where the best broadband speeds are. The research reveals that Kingston upon Hull has the fastest broadband, with an average download speed of 131.4 mbit/s. Stevenage and Grimsby take the second and third spot for the best broadband speeds, with an average […]