The UK price comparison site, Broadband Genie, has announced the appointment of Eliza Vlachou as its first Chief Executive Officer. Vlachou has joined the business as it enjoys a period of strong growth. Last year it saw record revenue of £4.4 million, up 145 per cent in five years, while the number of consumers switching […]
The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) has appointed Clare Bloomfield as its new Chief Policy Officer (CPO), with immediate effect. Bloomfield has been with the team since 2017 as Director, Policy & Research, and more recently as Acting CPO, helping to develop and execute policy initiatives relevant to the video industry, in consultation with and […]
BT Group has appointed Allison Kirkby as its next Chief Executive, taking over from Philip Jansen in January 2024. Kirkby has been a non-exec director of BT since 2019. Kirkby has served as President & CEO of Telia Company since early 2020. Telia, headquartered in Sweden, is the market leading digital communications and telecommunications provider […]
BT has a new CEO in Allison Kirkby, though she is not new to the company having served as a NED since 2019, the same time Philip Jansen became CEO. BT is the definition of a lacklustre stock. This despite being in a major growth area and holding a huge market share. It is, to […]
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg says has admitted that Threads has lost more than half its users. The Twitter rival surged to more than 100 million users within days of its launch earlier this month. But Zuckerberg has acknowledged those numbers have fallen away. “If you have more than 100 million people sign up, ideally it […]
Comcast’s quarterly revenue beat estimates helped by higher theme park attendance and the big theatrical releases of The Super Mario Bros Movie and Fast X. Shares were up 3.5 per cent in premarket trading. But cord cutting continued and Peacock losses widened. Total revenue rose 1.7 per cent to $30.51 billion (€27.39bn) in the quarter. […]
Netherlands streamer outfit 24i has hired Sebastian Braun as senior vice president of products. Braun will lead product innovation in streaming solutions for broadcasters, OTT and pay TV providers. Braun has more than 15 years of experience in the video, digital media and streaming solutions industry most recently as head of streaming video business & […]
The Film and TV Charity’s Board of Trustees has confirmed that Marcus Ryder MBE has been appointed as the organisation’s new Chief Executive Officer. Ryder has more than 25 years’ experience working in the media. Most recently he was Head of External Consultancies at the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity, set up to […]
Al Jazeera says that ‘a number’ of its Egyptian journalists and presenters had been added to a list of alleged terrorists by Egypt. Qatar-based Al Jazeera said that its journalists and presenters have been cited as terrorists and their names published in an official newspaper earlier this month following a ruling by the Cairo Criminal […]
In a new book, Tucker Carlson claims he “knows” he was fired by Fox News as a condition of the $787.5 million (€712m) settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. “They agreed to take me off the air, my show off the air, as a condition of the Dominion settlement,” Carlson tells his biographer, Chadwick Moore. “They […]