TAC Studios, the production arm of The Africa Channel, has concluded deals for several of its lifestyle shows to broadcast and digital networks around the globe. Networks include Tastemade (USA), SBS Food (Australia), Radio Television Brunei (RTB), Discovery Networks (Middle East and Africa), OSN (Middle East), and SABC (South Africa). These follow previously announced agreements […]
Premium content services and media technology solutions provider Vubiquity, part of the Amdocs Media Division, has secured a long-term content services partnership with the Liberty Global group and its affiliates across Europe. The multi-year contract includes the expansion of the existing, long-standing relationship Virgin Media maintains with Vubiquity. Vubiquity will be providing content licensing and […]
European club rugby fans around the world will have better access to the Heineken Champions Cup and European Rugby Challenge Cup with the launch of a new OTT platform, epcrugby.tv, supplementing continuously increasing global audiences. Powered by live video and OTT specialist StreamAMG, the direct-to-consumer service will show matches in both tournaments live in territories […]
Digital giant Tencent has agreed a one season deal to broadcast Premier League football in China after the previous local partner, PPTV, stopped paying when the league was suspended during lockdown. The Premier League thus terminated the contract. The league, which kicked off its 2020/21 season last weekend, confirmed that viewers in China will be […]
A study carried out by rights licensing body PRS for Music has found that overall usage of stream-ripping services dramatically increased by 1390 per cent between 2016 and 2019, overshadowing all other illegal online music activity in the UK. Online rights monitoring company INCOPRO was commissioned by PRS for Music to produce Stream-ripping: its role […]
The US’s National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) as well as industry marketing organisation CTAM, have formed a multi-layered partnership designed to strengthen innovation and collaboration within the organisations’ collective […]
UK DTT platform Freeview has welcomed the latest arrival to its free-to-air channel line-up – Sky Arts. The channel, which broadcasts a wide range of programming focused on theatre, art, music and culture, has recently announced a whole suite of new shows for the autumn. These include Tim Marlow’s Sky Arts Late, Danny Dyer on […]
A study of the online content viewing behaviour of Malaysian consumers has revealed a 64 per cent decrease in consumers accessing piracy websites over the past 12 months. The survey commissioned, by the Asia Video Industry Association’s Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) and conducted by YouGov, found that 22 per cent of online consumers currently use […]
Sky Arts has announced four new Sky original programme commissions, as it becomes free for everyone to watch. With a renewed focus on bringing more of the arts to more people, Sky Arts is embarking on what it describes as an ambitious programme of activity to support and champion the arts at a vital time […]
The share of content licensed to services owned by Studios across European markets has increased from 18 per cent in 2018 to 30 per cent in the last year, according to data from international content consultancy 3Vision. Media consolidation has helped to fuel direct-to-consumer (D2C) growth over the past few years with multiple services launched […]