It seems that the Media Relations team at beIN Sport were a little quick with their claim of victory in their dispute with Arabsat. The ‘victory’ was widely publicised over the past weekend. Setting aside the obvious merits of Qatar-based beIN claim against the Saudi beoutQ pirates, it is now clear that the French Tribunal […]
More people around the world are tuning into the BBC than ever before, reaching a new high of 426 million a week – an increase of 50 million (13 per cent) over the year, according to new figures released by the Corporation. The Global Audience Measure (GAM) shows BBC News has an audience of 394 […]
MX1, an SES subsidiary and global solutions provider of media services and pay-TV operator Sky Deutschland have agreed a new service agreement extension, which will see the German broadcaster’s customers receive perfect audio and video signals under any conditions. In particular, the scope of MX1’s contingency service will be expanded to include Sky Deutschland’s over-the-top […]
French producer and adult content distributor Marc Dorcel is to launch the first adult channel in Africa. Dorcel TV Africa will be exclusively carried on pay-TV offering Les Bouquets Canal+, which covers more than 25 countries across the continent. Available from the Evasion+ package and with a parental password, the channel will deliver exclusive African […]
Malaysian media group Astro Malaysia Holdings has entered into a strategic partnership with Chinese online entertainment service iQIYI. Under the partnership, Astro has the exclusive rights to deliver iQIYI content on TV, On Demand and OTT in Malaysia including the world’s first iQIYI branded channel comprising iQIYI’s extensive slate of original content from drama to […]
More than half of Australia’s adult population were paying for subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) services in April 2019, with Netflix alone reaching 5.3 million subscribers, according to AMPD Research, a subsidiary of independent research and consulting firm Media Partners Asia. AMPD Research’s latest study examined SVoD viewers as well as account holders who pay for streaming […]
UEFA has officially launched its new OTT streaming platform – a first for a football governing body – which is aimed at giving viewers greater access to live and on-demand video content from a variety of competitions. The service, branded UEFA.tv, will initially provide football fans with an entertainment platform which will offer original programming […]
A report from the European Audiovisual Observatory finds that pay-TV and SVoD get the lion’s share of the audiovisual (AV) services market in the EU. Pay AV services accounted for 40 per cent of the AV services market in 2017 with pay-TV representing 90 per cent and SVoD the remaining 10 per cent. Pay AV […]
DoubleVerify (DV), an independent provider of marketing measurement software and analytics, has released its 2019 Global Insights Report, providing a market-by-market benchmark on the current and future state of media quality on the Internet. The new 2019 data indicate that mobile app brand safety violations have grown 194 per cent in the last year – […]
Despite the rapid rise of digital, time spent with traditional media remains dominant in France. However, as consumers max out on how much they can multitask per day and reach a media saturation point, total time spent with media will likely plateau within the next few years, reports eMarketer. Daily average time spent with media […]