As part of its ongoing commitment to protecting intellectual property rights, Spain’s top-flight football league La Liga has successfully blocked illegal broadcasts from the DazcFutbolios and RBTV77 platforms. These illegal platforms, which allowed the unauthorised broadcasting of football matches, operated via both website and app, utilising Cloudflare’s infrastructure to conceal their criminal activities alongside legitimate […]

Canal+ and Samsung Electronics have extended their strategic partnership to cover over 40 territories globally. This new partnership reinforces will include the distribution of Canal+ applications on over 25 million Samsung Smart TVs. The deal marks the expansion of the collaboration between the two groups in Canal+ European, Asian and French Overseas Territories, alongside the […]

UK media regulator Ofcom is publishing two consultations as part of its implementation of the Media Act. These new laws seek to ensure, among other things, that audiences can easily find and discover public service broadcasters’ content on connected TV platforms, and that they are well served by this content. Specifically, the new laws require […]

LG Ad Solutions, the specialist in connected TV and cross-screen advertising, has announced findings from its study titled Stadium to Screen, which reports on the evolving habits of sports viewers across the UK, US and Canada. The study reveals a shift toward connected TV (CTV) as the primary platform for live sports, signalling a new […]

Last year brought big changes to the streaming industry – from major mergers to shifting viewer habits – with last year’s What to Expect from Fast Channels TV  report predictions of seeing more niche content, greater sports coverage and significant advancements in user experience all proving to be spot on. Now, it seems ad-supported streaming […]

M6 Group is continuing to develop its M6+ streaming platform and is extending its accessibility to connected televisions receiving DTT, thanks to HbbTV technology. M6+ will be accessible in France via the M6, W9 and 6ter channels and will provide free access to the entire programme catalogue. Compatible with HbbTV 2.0 televisions (post-2021), the service […]

It was a banner year for NBC Sports in 2024, from the industry-record three NFL playoff games on one weekend in January – highlighted by Peacock’s record-setting presentation of the first-ever exclusive live streamed playoff game – to the most-watched Kentucky Derby in 35 years, the conclusion of the most-watched Premier League season ever, golf’s […]

YouTube has become a key destination for viewers in France, and is now the leading destination for video viewing in the country among users aged 15 to 49 years old. YouTube says it has also overtaken traditional linear channels, citing Médiamétrie’s figure of 42 million users each month. “YouTube is a unique video platform that […]

YouTube has revealed new insights about viewing in the living room. Total daily viewing via a TV set has reached 1 billion hours, the Google division said. The scale is consistent with Nielsen’s monthly Gauge report, where YouTube has consistently outranked Netflix and other streamers. Viewing time of sports content via TV sets rose 30 […]

Entertainment technology company Xperi has become the newest hybrid member of trade bodies the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) and DEGI: The Digital Entertainment Group International. It joins the one-hundred-plus organisations in the ever-growing BASE and DEGI member and partner community as the bodies round off another successful year of growth and innovation in […]