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BBC Sport agrees La Liga digital clips deal

BBC Sport has secured a new deal to bring football action from La Liga to fans across the UK with a multi-year digital rights agreement for BBC Sport’s social and digital platforms. Starting immediately, audiences will be able to follow the best moments from one of the top-flight Spanish league with BBC Sport delivering key […]

November 28, 2025

Sky Sports, Slawn, McCann London collaborate on limited-edition football shirt

Sky Sports and London-based artist Slawn have aprtnered to create a football shirt that include a month of free access to Sky Sports content. The collaboration brings together art, fashion and football, with an exclusive collection of  hand-sprayed shirts produced in Slawn’s signature style. The campaign, developed by McCann London, has been created to support […]

November 28, 2025

Magic Light creates The Gruffalo & Friends idents for BBC

Magic Light Pictures, along with Triggerfish Animation studios, have created new festive idents exclusively for BBC One and BBC iPlayer featuring celebrated characters from the adaptations of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s picture books that have become the heart of the BBC’s Christmas offer. This year’s animated film, The Scarecrow’s Wedding is celebrated with an ident starring lead characters Harry […]

November 28, 2025By Nik Roseveare

Channel 4 reports record Hollyoaks viewership

Channel 4’s ‘digitally supercharged‘ Hollyoaks has continued its ratings momentum, with the channel’s flagship soap achieving a series of audience milestones during its 30th anniversary week. In a standout achievement, the episode broadcast on October 22nd, the Brookside crossover episode, has become Hollyoaks’ best-performing episode for consolidated Individuals viewing (645k) since October 2021, and its highest consolidated share […]

November 28, 2025

URC returns to Premier Sports with Black Friday deal

BKT United Rugby Championship action returns to Premier Sports screens tonight (November 27th) following a four week international break – with all eight URC games live across the weekend.  Plus there’s four live games from France’s Top 14 for UK rugby fans to tune into. To celebrate the return of the club competition live on […]

November 28, 2025

IMG, KNVB sign media rights deal

The Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) has announced a long-term agreement with sports marketing agency, IMG, to distribute the international media rights across its women’s football league and men’s domestic cup competitions, through to 2030. The agreement includes all international territories outside the Netherlands. IMG will partner with the KNVB to represent the media rights […]

November 28, 2025

Study: Samsung’s Gamebreaks format boosts brand consideration

Samsung Ads, the advertising arm of Samsung Electronics’ media division, along with Domino’s Pizza and Havas have released results of the first European advertising campaign to use Samsung Ads’ GameBreaks ad unit, which replaces the conventional ad with a branded, remote control-powered trivia quiz or game. The Domino’s campaign presented viewers with a pizza-related trivia […]

November 27, 2025

Virgin TV offering free UHD content in December

This December, Virgin TV customers can watch a range of family favourites in Ultra HD at no extra cost. Customers can access channel 175 and 999 in UHD for an entire month, which will showcase family films every afternoon, as well as a variety of documentaries from 8pm and prime time films from 9pm daily, […]

November 27, 2025By Nik Roseveare

Report: Public service media foster safe digital spaces for minors

The European Parliament has adopted its own-initiative report on the protection of minors online, addressing the need to safeguard the youngest and most vulnerable members of society from the mounting risks of the digital age. The EBU commends the European Parliament’s direction and commitment to protecting minors from harm while ensuring their access to a […]

November 27, 2025

UK ministers green light £750m Marlow Film Studios

The UK government has given planning permission for a £750 million (€855.5m) film and TV studio on green belt land following an appeal. In 2024, Buckinghamshire Council had rejected the proposed Marlow Film Studios (MFS) because of concerns regarding traffic, biodiversity and harm to the local landscape. That decision has now been overturned by a […]

November 26, 2025