In research and consulting firm Futuresource’s perspective report, Battle for the Living Room, published before Christmas, it stated that Apple was to make a big play in TV in 2019, highlighting that: “Apple’s Achilles’ heel to date has been its lack of reach on the big screen in the living room, where most premium content […]
Trade bodies the Digital Entertainment Group Europe (DEGE) and the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) are launching Mega Movie Week, a category-wide campaign to drive consumer engagement with the growing digital transactional market, running for the week commencing January 21st, 2019. During Mega Movie Week, BASE and DEGE members, including BBC Studios, Entertainment One, […]
A ‘reveal all’ website has been published by pay-TV operator beIN Media Group which it claims publicly exposes what it describes as the “industrial scale theft” of world sports and entertainment carried out by beoutQ – the Saudi Arabia-based pirate TV channel – and Arabsat – the Riyadh-headquartered satellite provider – for the past 18 […]
Research from analyst firm Parks Associates finds 16 per cent of US broadband households admit to sharing their passwords for their video service accounts with other people. Innovations in Authentication and Personalization Technologies reports that service providers will have a difficult time moving subscribers to new methods of password-free authentication. Only one-third or fewer of […]
A report by global digital infrastructure provider Tata Communications examining the commercial transformation of sports identifies 2019 as a defining tipping point for the global sports industry, with digital technology innovation set to kick-start a new era of unprecedented commercial growth for broadcasters, rights holders and sports organisations. The Show Me the Money! report – […]
The Premier League’s first international office has opened in Singapore. Based in Tanjong Pagar, the office will provide a base for the Asia-Pacific region and has primarily been established to fight piracy of Premier League content and support broadcast partners. This will include deploying the league’s hugely successful enforcement programme across multiple markets and assisting […]
Signalling how the UK television industry has become a truly ‘mixed ecology’ of different players, investment in the creation of home-grown television programmes by multichannel broadcasters has hit £1.1 billion (€1.23bn) a year, according to a report from industry body the Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA). The watershed moment
Alita: Battle Angel, an epic adventure of hope and empowerment from visionary filmmakers James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez, has become the latest film to receive an exclusive trailer as part of pro-copyright education body The Industry Trust for IP Awareness’s Moments Worth Paying For campaign. “You can’t bring a story like Alita to life without […]
The National Basketball Association (NBA), Turner Sports and Twitter have agreed a live streaming deal that will provide fans in the US with a complementary experience on Twitter (via @NBAonTNT) for 20 NBA on TNT games this season. During the second halves of those games, fans can watch the action through a single-player, isolated camera […]
Football fans of Italy’s premier football cup tournaments can look forward to live coverage of the Coppa Italia and the Super Coppa Italiana in Singapore and Indonesia following an agreement to showcase the upcoming 2018-2019 season, staring this week. Coppa Italia’s Round of 16 kicks off on January 12th with Sampdoria vs Milan, Torino vs […]