Italy-based broadcasting group, MFE-MediaForEurope, has reported a 24 per cent annual growth in net profit for the first half of 2025, to €130.2 million. Even when excluding the impact of the investment in Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1, adjusted net profit remained positive at €80.7 million. Consolidated net revenues in the same period dipped 2.7 per cent to […]
A fifth of US adults now regularly get their news from TikTok, up from just 3 per cent in 2020, reports Pew Research. During that span, no social media platform studied by the research centre has experienced faster growth in news consumption, a TikTok is primarily known for short-form video sharing and is especially popular […]
RTVE and FORTA have officially launched the Spanish DVB-I Pilot, an initiative in Spain aimed at testing the DVB-I standard. The project seeks to assess its suitability as a strategic tool to enhance the visibility, accessibility, and relevance of audiovisual content, while adapting to new consumption habits. The pilot is framed within the Convenio Compostela, […]
Teads has released research with the MediaMento Institute showing its CTV HomeScreen ads capture attention significantly faster and hold it longer than skippable formats. The findings reveal that CTV HomeScreen placements drive significantly higher attention and more meaningful engagement compared to traditional formats. Using in-lab eye-tracking and brand-recall surveys with 100 Smart TV viewers, the […]
Paramount Skydance has named Makan Delrahim, a former senior US antitrust official, as its chief legal officer, amid apparent preparations for a bid for Warner Bros Discovery. Delrahim, a former assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, was part of the legal firm that advised Skydance Media throughout its long-drawn merger process with […]
Advertisers facing a shifting economy are sharpening their focus according to IAB’s 2025 Outlook Study September Update: A Snapshot of the Latest Ad Spend Trends, Opportunities, and Strategies for Growth. Amid rising tariff concerns and macroeconomic headwinds, ad buyers expect to spend less in the second half of the year than originally projected, leading IAB […]
The ARF DASH TV Universe Study captures how American households connect to and consume TV across platforms and devices. Hispanic Heritage Month and the release of the first wave of DASH 2025 present a timely opportunity to look into the TV habits of Hispanics, a segment that now represents more than 15 per cent of […]
MultiChoice, Africa’s major pay-TV operator, is now controlled by Canal+. The new management will need to act swiftly to cut subscriber losses. The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has reported that MultiChoice’s DStv arm had just 188,824 active accounts as at June 30th. This is dramatically down on the 1.19 million a year earlier. DStv […]
Gcore, the edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider, has announced the findings of its Q1-Q2 2025 Radar report into DDoS attack trends. DDoS attacks have reached unprecedented scale and disruption in 2025, and businesses need to act fast to protect themselves from this evolving threat. The report reveals a significant escalation in the […]
Broadband satellite operator Starlink is reported locally to launching its service over India later in 2025. Starlink has received provisional spectrum from India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT). Competition is likely to be tough with similar services promised by Reliance’s Jio Platforms (in conjunction with SES), Eutelsat’s OneWeb and Amazon Kuiper. Satellite-based Internet services are likely […]
The digital entertainment environment continues to evolve with increasingly complicated access restrictions across borders. Media companies and online platforms now routinely implement region-based blocking tools to comply with regional regulations and licensing agreements. These digital boundaries create varied accessibility depending on geographic location, often leaving consumers confused when unexpected access limitations appear. The technical structure […]
SES will pay its shareholders its dividend of 25 Euro-cents on October 16th “in line with its commitment to shareholder returns”. The 25 cent payment is the same as has been paid for a number of years. However, SES has over the past year or so promised an improved rate of dividend payments. Its announcement […]
There’s no moral in this story because, of course, it is about television. For as long as it has been around there have been moral panics about TV, as in ‘does what it puts on screen erode the moral fibre of a nation?’ As the word panic implies, the answer is, generally, no. Nowadays even […]