The season 7 premiere of The Walking Dead on October 24th has given Fox UK its biggest ever series launch and is on track to become the highest rated show since the channel began in 2004. Some 1.43 million tuned in to watch the premiere episode, via the simulcast at 2:30am or the show’s traditional […]
Econet Media’s Kwesé and ESPN have announced a media collaboration in Africa. The deal will deliver sports coverage in Africa, offering a wide range of sports and thousands of hours of programming. African audiences will benefit from content from global sports media company in ESPN, in conjunction with Kwesé’s premium sports offering, while Kwesé’s pan-African […]
Next-generation and creator-first digital media company BuzzMyVideos has launched multi-platform copyright protection tool BuzzRights, which enables online video creators to protect their content on both YouTube and Facebook. According to the company, with an ever-increasing number of emerging social platforms and ongoing shift in industry focus to video, the need to protect creators’ IP and […]
Turner has announced a major enhancement to its Cartoon Network Watch and Play app, allowing Globe Telecom customers to livestream Cartoon Network and on-demand content via a new authenticated service. Globe customers will soon be able to log in to the free app using their username and password to unlock an array of value-added services, […]
Varnish Software, a specialist in caching software and high-performance content delivery, has partnered with Cedexis, a player in internet performance monitoring and optimisation, to introduce Varnish Extend, a private content delivery solution. Varnish Extend is for companies seeking to optimise digital content delivery while controlling costs. It is a software layer that enables organisations to […]
Richard Frankland, VP Sales EMEA, explains Irdeto’s holistic, 360 degree approach to security with examples from Europe and the US demonstrating an ecosystem approach that provides protection from inception to display, from ‘glass to glass.’ [bitsontherun xwnyBCzb-hLYU43gg]
Content sharing has become the most popular form of piracy. Lucas Catranis, Cyber Services & Investigation, explains how a mixture of technology, human intelligence and industry relationships means they can take down pirate streams even as they play out live events. [bitsontherun fCsc0CpL-hLYU43gg]
The mega-media- merger to end all mega… etc. That is until the next one comes along. Except – if it goes ahead – this really might be the last of this kind of deal. This takeover will be sold hard as a ‘traditional’ vertical integration play – a content owner and a pipes owner come […]
Viceland, the lifestyle and culture channel aimed at millennials, will launch on Dutch cable platform Ziggo with a localised version in early 2017. Further availability across other platforms will follow. The channel, a spin-off from Vice magazine, will produce all of its content in-house. Viceland launched in the US and Canada in February and in […]
Amit Wohl, Video Security Product Manager in the Service Provider organisation at Cisco, has suggested the company is pioneering a new approach to piracy prevention, with its Streaming Piracy Prevention service utilising technology to locate illegal redistribution of content on the open Internet and closed pirate networks. In a Cisco blog post, Wohl notes that […]