Tinuiti, the independent performance marketing firm across streaming TV, Google, Meta and Amazon, has announced its acquisition of Ampush, a marketing agency with a core focus across social platforms that provides end-to-end performance creative and customer acquisition capabilities. Tinuiti says the acquisition expands and complements its paid social capabilities, in addition to now providing brands […]
DataCore Software has acquired Object Matrix, the object storage and media archive specialist. Object Matrix’s appliances and cloud offerings will become part of the DataCore Perifery portfolio that specialises in delivering end-to-end, application-centric solutions for the media and entertainment markets. “Gartner predicts that more than 50 per cent of enterprise-managed data will be created and […]
France Télévisions has announced it is set to pull the plug on streaming service Salto, jointly created with M6 and TF1, meaning it will close unless a buyer comes forward. After TF1 and M6’s decision to exit the service in November 2022, following the failure of their planned merger, Salto looks set to shut, little […]
Fabric, a player in media and entertainment catalogue management, has acquired Internet Video Archive (IVA). For the past 18 years, IVA has been providing movie, TV, and game promotional content to some of the biggest names in the media industry. IVA’s database has one of the most complete inventories of entertainment trailers, as well as […]
In an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper, Rajeev Suri, Inmarsat CEO, predicted that only a handful of satellite operators will succeed and survive over the next 7 to 10 years. He said that it takes billions to get satellites into space and the industry has already seen plenty of bankruptcies, noting: “The industry structure […]
Entertainment, comedy and popular factual specialist Tuesday’s Child has acquired a controlling stake in London-based indie, Interstellar. Interstellar was founded by Managing Director David Williams and Creative Director Jamie Ormerod and has produced a string of popular shows including Singletown for ITV2, Question Team for Dave and Show Me The Honey! for CBBC, since its […]
French streaming platform Salto could shut its service by the end of this week according to reports in the French media. Salto went live in October 2020 co-owned by French broadcasters, TF1, France Télévisions and M6, but has failed to attract a substantial subscriber base; it currently stands at around 800,000 – far behind the […]
SaaS video platform JW Player is acquiring subscription management and identity management technology provider InPlayer. The acquisition broadens JW Player’s end-to-end video platform capabilities by helping broadcasters and other video-driven businesses more easily monetise their subscription-based business and by providing rich audience insights. In June of 2021, JW Player announced it raised $100 million from […]
Satellite solutions business QBX, which is based on the Isle of Man, has been acquired by GapSat Development Group which specialises in providing satellite capacity on an interim basis and acts as a clearing house for operators with satellites able to be moved to other orbital locations. QBX holds a portfolio of satellite radio frequency […]
Sunrise has acquired the telecom business of its long-standing partner, EBL, with retroactive effect from January 1st 2023. The takeover is the result of many years of cooperation between the two companies in Switzerland. A total of 60,000 telecom customers currently connected in the regions of Liestal, Laufen, Romandy, and Bern as well as in […]