PwC has released its Africa Entertainment and Media Outlook—Perspectives Report 2025–2029. The outlook provides detailed insights into how technological advancements, consumer behaviour shifts, and market dynamics are driving growth and transformation across Africa’s entertainment and media (E&M) sector. Outperforming global averages, South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria lead the continent’s growth, with Nigeria showing particularly strong […]

News Broadcasting has achieved another set of strong RAJAR results for the Q3 survey period ending September 15th 2025. The group, including national brands talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK, Times Radio and Talk, as well as U105 in Northern Ireland, delivered 6.3 million weekly listeners, with cumulative listening hours of 44.4 million. News Broadcasting is leading […]

SES and Arqiva have signed a multi-year, multi-million contract renewal for satellite capacity on SES’s prime video neighbourhood of 28.2 degrees East. SES will continue to provide multi-transponder capacity to enable Arqiva to deliver SD and HD channels as well as radio services to its customers in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. SES’s […]

Research from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) reveals that almost all parents (98 per cent) check age ratings when selecting films or TV shows for their children to watch on streaming services. In a survey of 2,000 parents of 3-16 year olds in the UK who subscribe to at least one streaming service, […]

The PIA (Syndicat des Producteurs Professionnels et Indépendants de l’Audio, France) and AudioUK (the industry body for the podcast and audio industry) have announced the launch of the International Podcast Alliance (IPA), a collaborative transnational platform uniting professional organisations representing podcast and audio producers, businesses and publishers globally. The IPA aims to strengthen dialogue, share […]

Taboola and Paramount Advertising have announced a strategic partnership to launch Performance Multiplier — a Paramount-branded solution that underscores TV’s power to augment a brand’s digital performance. This solution aims to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) extend and measure the impact of their CTV advertising. “At Paramount, we are proving that television advertising amplifies […]

Through an extended partnership with Zeno Media, BBC World Service and BBC News Hausa content is now available on Zeno’s global audio platform, Zeno.FM.  Audiences around the world can now access BBC World Service English and BBC News Hausa audio streams on Zeno FM, featuring popular English-language programmes such as The Newsroom, The Documentary and […]

Teads, the omnichannel outcomes platform for the open internet, has announced the beta launch of CTV Performance, a performance solution that tracks exposure to action, bringing accountability to connected TV campaigns for the first time outside of the US. CTV Performance enables advertisers to move beyond traditional CTV metrics like impressions and completion rates, offering […]

Broadcast viewership came roaring back in September as American football drove an unprecedented monthly spike in watch-time for the category, according to Nielsen’s monthly The Gauge report – a snapshot of total TV and streaming consumption. Time spent watching broadcast programming shot up 20 per cent month-over-month (compared to +3 per cent across all TV) […]

To no one’s surprise it has come to this: Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) isn’t working out and something must be done. To no one’s further surprise, no one knows what to do for the best. We have enjoyed reminiscing here before about the worst deal in history that was the takeover of Time Warner by […]