Apple TV+ has announced Widow’s Bay a new 10-episode series from creator Katie Dippold (Parks and Recreation, Ghostbusters), with Emmy Award winner Hiro Murai (The Bear, Atlanta) set to direct the pilot. Widow’s Bay is about a mysteriously cursed New England island and its superstitious citizens, led by a mayor who refuses to believe their […]
LiveU has launched its Lightweight Sports Production solution making fully featured, professional live sports production accessible and affordable for every event size. LiveU says that Lightweight Sports Production opens up new frontiers for diverse and minority sports that were previously sidelined due to economic, resource or time constraints. Built on a remote production ‘ground-to-cloud-to-crowd’ model […]
Key US women’s sports have huge upside potential in rights value based on fan engagement relative to men’s sport when pegged to current rights value, according to research from Ampere Analysis. Ampere has calculated the difference in media rights deals for women’s and men’s US sports competitions based on value per engaged fans per game […]
Gracenote, the content solutions business unit of Nielsen, has launched Gracenote Watch Prompts, a new dataset that equips video platforms and services with facts about TV programmes and movies to influence consumer viewing decisions. Designed to be paired with viewer preference and consumption behaviour data, the new offering enables customers to deliver more personalised viewer […]
The Australian entertainment subscription market, which includes video, music and game services, grew by 5 per cent to 52.3 million services in the 12 months to June 2024, despite cost-of-living pressures and services’ increasing focus on profitability, according to new research by emerging technology analyst firm Telsyte. The Telsyte Australian Subscription Entertainment Study 2024 found […]
Eutelsat Group and MuxIP, a specialist in media SaaS technologies for ad-supported streaming, have announced a strategic initiative, bringing together a selection of global sports channels from FAST TV platforms around the world, via satellite to audiences in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EMENA). Per the agreement, MuxIP is distributing an initial selection […]
Teen comedy Incoming topped Netflix’s English Films List in the week commencing August 26th with 16.9M views, making it the most-watched title of the week. Lee Daniels’ horror thriller The Deliverance, starring Glenn Close, debuted in third place with 14.5 million views. Returning to the list were the action-packed comedy The Union starring Halle Berry […]
THEMA, a subsidiary of Canal+ International and a specialist in the production and distribution of multicultural TV content, has renewed its partnership with OKAST for the distribution of its African content through the OTT service My Bouquet Africain. My Bouquet Africain, named after the original ‘Le Bouquet Africain’ (launched in France in 2008), is tailored […]
STV, the Scottish media group, has reported that total revenue rose by 20 per cent to £90.4 million (€107.2m) in H1 2024 (compared to H1 2023) and adjusted operating profit increased by 33 per cent to £10.6 million.. Studios revenue was up 38 per cent with improved forward order book of £101 million. Broadcast revenue […]
A study from Juniper Research, the specialist in technology markets, forecasts that the global AdTech market will grow by 60 per cent over the next five years, with AdTech platforms anticipated to generate $27 billion (€24.4bn) in 2024, and $43.5 billion by 2029. The study identified the need to improve audience targeting to increase ad […]