justAD TV the non-linear advertising specialist, has partnered with digital marketing solutions provider Ybrant Digital to help platform owners immediately generate new revenues from today’s multi-screen, Connected TV world. Based on justAd.TV’s multi-device TV advertising platform, the new partnership will enable platform owners to use Ybrant Digital’s media sales experience and global network to generate […]
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has boosted its stake in Arabic music-to-films broadcaster Rotana Media Group. A year ago, News Corp bought nine per cent of Rotana, which is owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed, and with that purchase struck a deal which gave News Corp an option to double its stake within 18 months. News […]
Italy’s leading commercial broadcaster Mediaset has signed a commercial deal with Vodafone Italia, with the goal of providing bundled TV-telephone services to existing and new customers. The joint offer of services will include the sale of smart cards for the Mediaset Premium pay-TV service available on DTT, as well as ADSL broadband connections. The agreement […]
IPTV company GoConnect and ISP Netbay Internet have formed a 50-50 joint venture devoted to distributing Asian language IPTV programming in Australia. The arrangement will see the creation of an equally-owned company, Asia IPTV, which will initially serve up Cantonese and Mandarin language programming. GoConnect, will be responsible for distribution across its various IPTV properties, […]
News Corp is understood to be considering joining a consortium bid for Formula One Grand Prix motor racing, reports the Financial Times, quoting people familiar with the matter. The sport has been owned since 2005 by CVC Capital Partners. Although there has been no indication that the private equity group is looking to sell, there […]
Media Excel, a provider of live and file based encoding and n-Screen adaptive bitrate transcoding, and Verimatrix, have formed a partnership that enables digital TV service operators to securely deploy high quality video over any IP network to multiple screens – TVs, PCs, mobile devices and beyond. A combination of the Verimatrix VCAS for Internet […]
Mexican television broadcaster, Grupo Televisa has confirmed that it is in talks with the mobile network operator, Grupo Iusacell over a possible joint-venture. Televisa said that it intends to enter in the mobile phone market, either through a direct investment or a reselling arrangement, because it expects growth in the industry. The move is a […]
Skylogic, the broadband subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications, and skyDSL Global, a European pioneer of satellite Internet services, have announced the extension of their longstanding partnership with an initial five-year contract amounting to €3 million enabling skyDSL to market the next-generation Tooway service provided by KA-SAT, Eutelsat’sl new High Throughput Satellite. Using the skyDSL2+ brand, skyDSL […]
Intelsat has formed an alliance with BT that expands the reach of its IntelsatONE terrestrial network to new locations in Europe, Africa and Asia. The Intelsat and BT media fibre alliance interconnects Intelsat’s MPLS-based IntelsatONE fiber network, which consists of fibre and points of presence (PoPs) located in major cities and teleports with BT’s MPLS-based […]
Sky Deutschland and Tele Columbus have agreed to expand their existing cooperation and make the Sky packages available in an attractive Triple Play offering. With this, the Tele Columbus customers have easy access to Sky programming: the joint offer comprises a 6 MBit Internet-and telephone flat rate, Tele Columbus basic digital TV package and the […]