Jamie Hindhaugh, COO of BT Sport, has suggested that object-based delivery will be the next major initiative as the broadcaster continues to innovate in its goal of putting the customer at the heart of sport. Delivering a keynote address at the Love Broadcasting Summit in London, Hindhaugh noted BT’s previous initiatives in sports coverage, such […]
Motor cycle racing’s premier category MotoGP is seeing its partnership with cloud-based video specialist Grabyo pay off as it uses social video and live streaming to grow the global community around the world championship, building its digital fan base to more than 22 million. “MotoGP is the oldest motorsport world championship but its digital strategy […]
Cisco has been selected by The Walt Disney Studios as a founding member and Innovation Partner of The Walt Disney Studios StudioLAB. StudioLAB will be based on The Walt Disney Studios Lot in Burbank, California The announcement was made on stage at the first annual ‘XR On the Bay’ Conference hosted by the Advanced Imaging […]
Pact – the trade association representing the commercial interests of UK independent television, film, digital, children’s and animation media companies – has published its new-look TV Exports report, which it says reinforces the UK’s position as a world leader in producing high-quality programmes that are popular with viewers around the world. The report – produced […]
Viacom has announced it will be producing a Nickelodeon-branded show to be exclusively streamed on Netflix. Viacom CEO Bob Bakish, speaking to The Information, said Viacom is seeking out new ways to make money despite some risk: Such a move could indeed further drive audiences towards Netflix rather than Viacom’s own cable networks. Bakish hopes […]
US programmer AMC has renewed its popular and critically-acclaimed anthology series, The Terror for a second season. The next iteration of The Terror anthology will be set during World War II and centre on an uncanny spectre that menaces a Japanese-American community from its home in Southern California to the internment camps to the war […]
Research on upcoming commissions by Ampere Analysis reveals that Netflix and Amazon are ramping up co-productions with local broadcasters in a bid to provide viewers with high-quality content at lower cost. The BBC and Sky are just two of the high profile public broadcasters and pay-TV operators who have been unable to resist the lure […]
Hulu CEO Randy Freer, speaking to CNBC, has taken a subtle shot at rival Netflix regarding its incredibly high content spend. “I think money is a relative term. I think it’s how you spend that is really important. We are not going to make 800 shows next year, we’ll probably make 20 or 25,” he […]
Netflix has signed a multi-year content deal with the creative minds behind one of the most-watched non-English shows on Netflix, Dark. Under the terms of the deal, Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, who hail from Germany, will produce new series and projects exclusively for Netflix. Erik Barmack, Vice President of International Originals at Netflix, […]
Apple has announced a multi-year content partnership with Oprah Winfrey, the esteemed producer, actress, talk show host, philanthropist and CEO of OWN. Together, Winfrey and Apple say they will create original programmes that “embrace her incomparable ability to connect with audiences around the world”. Winfrey’s projects will be released as part of a line-up of […]