Disney’s ABC Television Group (DATG) and Snap have announced an agreement through which DATG will produce original episodic shows for multimedia mobile app Snapchat in the US. ABC’s reality series The Bachelor will be DATG’s first brand to co-produce a series with Snapchat for Discover, with its first episode debuting on January 3rd – the […]
Nokia has filed a number of complaints against Apple in Germany and the US, alleging that Apple products infringe a number of Nokia patents. Following the acquisition of full ownership of NSN in 2013 and Alcatel-Lucent in 2016, Nokia now owns three valuable portfolios of intellectual property. It says that built on more than €115 […]
Eurosport has reached agreement with the Deutsche Fussball Liga (DFL) to screen the Bundesliga exclusively live in Austria, Switzerland as well as German-speaking territories Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and the South Tyrol region from the 2017-18 season. The new agreement will see Eurosport televise 40 Bundesliga matches live per season. Eurosport will broadcast the match in the […]
The Australian Copyright Council – an independent, non-profit organisation which represents the trade bodies for professional artists and content creators working in Australia’s creative industries and Australia’s major copyright collecting societies – has criticised the Productivity Commission’s Final Report on Intellectual Property Arrangements, suggesting it ignores evidence demonstrating the potential cost and damage to Australia’s […]
Independent factual content production and distribution company Barcroft Media has signed content agreements that will see the company’s short-form content distributed to news audiences in China, Africa and Canada. The company has announced the launch of Barcroft videos on Weibo, China’s largest social media platform which will see Barcroft Media short form content appear on […]
Starz has announced that it will exclusively debut the US television premiere of the tour documentary The Rolling Stones Olé! Olé! Olé: A Trip Across Latin America on January 15th 2017 and the concert documentary Havana Moon on January 22nd. Both documentaries will also be available for download and streaming via the Starz app from […]
Figures from ratings agency Barb show that 31 of the top 40 most-watched shows in the UK so far this year were aired on BBC1. Programmes including The Great British Bake Off, Planet Earth II and Strictly Come Dancing helped the BBC dominate the ratings. The Great British Bake Off episodes featured in all but […]
Security researchers at advertising fraud protection and human verification specialist White Ops have exposed the most profitable and advanced ad fraud operation ever seen by the industry. Dubbed ‘The Methbot Operation’ after references to ‘meth’ in the code of the bot itself, this single group of Russian-based operators is stealing as much as $3 million-$5 […]
Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe has been appointed Commercial Secretary (Minister of State) at Her Majesty’s Treasury, having previously been a Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy since July 2016 following the reallocation of ministerial briefs by new Prime Minister Theresa May. She served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at […]
More premium content, an emphasis on local programming and an increased number of exclusive must-have rights has delivered a strong 2016 for Eurosport, with a wide range of sports enjoying healthy audience figures in Europe. Key content and viewership included: • Tennis, cycling and football provided the highlights of the past 12 months, with key […]