The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI have reached an agreement for Disney to become the first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI’s short-form generative AI video platform, bringing the two companies together “to unlock new possibilities in imaginative storytelling”. As part of a three-year licensing agreement, that signifies Hollywood’s growing acceptance of AI, Sora […]
Josh Withrow, a Fellow at public policy think tank R Street Institute, suggests that blocking of copyright infringing sites carries a number of risks. In an opinion piece, he notes that several tech-related legislative proposals have flown under the radar in 2025, including a renewed push to force internet service providers (ISPs) to take down […]
Antipiracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has dismantled India-based piracy network MKVCinemas and its associated domains. Additionally, ACE shut down a high-traffic drive-to-drive cloning tool frequently used by piracy services in India and Indonesia. Most of MKVCinemas’ traffic came from India, a rapidly expanding entertainment market. Collectively, the MKVCinemas domains accounted for […]
The global wireless industry continued its rapid expansion in the third quarter of 2025, with global 5G connections reaching 2.8 billion worldwide, according to data from Omdia and trade body 5G Americas. North America remains one of the world’s most technologically advanced 5G markets, achieving exceptionally high adoption levels driven by strong consumer uptake and […]
Sports broadcaster and streaming service Premier Sports has agreed to deal to screen live coverage of Copa del Rey for the next three seasons. The new agreement adds to with existing coverage of La Liga and La Liga 2 on the service. Coverage of the 2025/26 knockout competition kicks off with the Round of 32 […]
American Airlines currently uses Viasat’s satellites for its ‘direct-to-seat’ In-Flight Connectivity. There are numerous reports that it is to switch suppliers and use a Low Earth orbiting (LEO) fleet of satellites for improved speed and bandwidth. However, while many airlines have chosen Starlink to connect their aircraft, it seems that American has quietly chosen Amazon’s […]
Tubi, Fox’s ad-supported streaming service, has announced it will support instant app download and native launch through Matter Casting, a next-generation casting standard enabling seamless mobile-to-TV viewing. With Matter Casting, viewers can cast Tubi content directly from iOS and Android devices to Fire TV with no separate app installation required. “In a world where content […]
Mobile services revenue in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is set for a steady compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4 per cent over 2025-2030, as surging demand for high-volume data plans and widespread 5G adoption reshape the market’s growth dynamics. This shift, from declining voice revenues to rapidly rising data usage, signals a decisive […]
At the NEM Zagreb conference, María Rúa Aguete, Head of Media and Entertainment at Omdia, unveiled insights that signal a historic transformation in the US pay-TV market. According to Omdia’s latest forecasts, YouTube TV is on track to surpass Charter and Comcast to become the largest pay-TV operator in the US by 2027. Presenting on […]
AppsFlyer has released its annual analysis of mobile app trends, revealing how AI shaped both consumer behaviour and marketing strategy in 2025. GenAI adoption accelerated across the app ecosystem, with installs up 16 per cent and category spend reaching $824 million (€707.9m) across iOS and Android. GenAI apps ranked among the fastest-growing categories of the […]
TiVo, a wholly owned subsidiary of entertainment technology company Xperi, has announced that TiVo OS, the company’s independent media platform, has achieved Freely certification from the platform’s owner and operator Everyone TV, for streaming media devices. The certification, in a newly defined category of streaming media devices that do not require an integrated screen or […]
Crossroads Capital Investment Partners, an investor in AST SpaceMobile, has provided a quarterly update and valuable comments on the continued rationale behind its investment. The letter reminded clients that its stake in AST is up 34 per cent this year. “We wanted to take a quick moment to note the company made significant strides in […]
You don’t have to be as old as me to remember the dotcom crash of March 2000. But, by the same token, there are plenty of senior executives and fund managers around who would have been children at the time. Are their perceptions of the inevitability of AI’s success, their assumption that we are all […]