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The Union at Netflix #1

New action comedy, The Union, in which Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg star as high school sweethearts reuniting to take on an international crime syndicate, debuted at #1 on Netflix’s English Films List with 33.1 million views, making it the platform’s most-watched title in the week commencing August 12th. The film, which marks the first […]

August 21, 2024

DAZN signs content deal with Brinx WDSC

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has announced a global multi-year broadcast deal with Brinx World Downhill Skateboarding Championship (WDSC) which will see DAZN broadcast all WDSC events live across over 200 territories worldwide. The Brinx WDSC features the best action from both Downhill Skateboarding and Street Luge and fans of these disciplines can look forward […]

August 21, 2024By Nik Roseveare

BBC Sounds launches Tortoise Investigates feed

BBC Sounds has launched Tortoise Investigates, a new feed which will become the home of three new investigative podcast series from Tortoise Media. The boxsets will be released consecutively on BBC Sounds in the coming weeks. Each boxset series offers a complex story which aim to keep listeners guessing, including a Satanic hoax, a malicious […]

August 21, 2024

The Trade Desk partners with Nexxen

Nexxen, an advertising technology platform with expertise in data and advanced TV, has announced a strategic data partnership with The Trade Desk. Providing The Trade Desk’s advertisers access to automatic content recognition (ACR) data segments – available exclusively from Nexxen – this integration offers clients advanced cross-channel and cross-device targeting capabilities, for more efficient media […]

August 21, 2024

Secret Level gaming series coming to Prime Video

During the Gamescom global livestream on August 20th, Prime Video announced its new adult-animated anthology series: Secret Level, featuring original short stories set within the worlds of some of the world’s most celebrated video games. From Amazon MGM Studios and Blur Studio, creators of Love, Death + Robots, will come 15 episodes with each serving […]

August 21, 2024By Nik Roseveare

Netflix orders How to Kill Your Family with Taylor-Joy

Anya Taylor-Joy is set to star as murderous Grace Bernard, protagonist extraordinaire in How To Kill Your Family, a Netflix series inspired by Bella Mackie’s best-selling novel of the same name. The eight parter, announced at Edinburgh TV Festival, will be a first production for Netflix from Sid Gentle Films (Killing Eve) with Emma Moran (Extraordinary) […]

August 21, 2024

Research: Netflix’s new seasons significantly lift older seasons

Research from Ampere Analysis highlights how new season releases boost the viewing of older seasons. Analysis of a basket of shows debuting new seasons on Netflix in H2 2023 revealed that older seasons of these shows saw an increase of 86 per cent in viewing hours on H1 2023. Titles without a new season saw […]

August 20, 2024

Channel 5, My5 relaunching as 5

UK commercial PSB Channel 5 and its free streaming service, My5, will relaunch in 2025 under a unified parent brand of 5 across linear, streaming and digital platforms – giving its audience access to its range of programming and content, wherever and whenever they want it.  As part of the relaunch as 5, the free streaming […]

August 20, 2024

Netflix up 150% in upfronts

In Netflix’s second year of Upfront negotiations – after entering the advertising business in 2023 – the streamer said it closed deals with all major holding companies as well as independent agencies, and reported a 150+ per cent increase in upfront ad sales commitments, which was “in-line with expectations”. Amy Reinhard, President of Advertising at […]

August 20, 2024

Yospace to showcase the latest advances in SSAI for major live events

Yospace, the leader in dynamic ad insertion, will be showcasing the power of its technology to scale for major global events at this year’s IBC event in Amsterdam (RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre, September 13th-16th). Yospace will showcase insights from a big Summer of Sports, which demonstrate the sheer scale of addressable advertising in the streaming […]

August 20, 2024