Channel 4 has announced a partnership with V to sell home screen ad formats on its VIDAA Smart TV platform, which is used by Hisense, Toshiba, Loewe. Offering high attention as the gateway to the CTV viewing experience, home screen ad formats are a relatively new way for brands to reach audiences from the moment […]
Channel 4 has announced the launch of Enhance – its new creative, dynamic optimisation platform designed to amplify advertiser’s existing TV creative on Channel 4 streaming. The UK public service broadcaster is partnering with Brightline’s ScreenSense on the new portal for building enhanced CTV ad formats. The platform delivers Clearcast compliant, data-driven, dynamic streaming ads. […]
Proper Music Distribution (PMD), a UK-based independent distributor of physical music, has signed anime brand Crunchyroll to distribute its home entertainment products. PMD will provide B2B fulfilment, invoicing and cash collection services for Crunchyroll’s DVD, Blu-ray and 4K UHD catalogue across the UK and Ireland, supporting distribution into major retailers including HMV and Amazon. Crunchyroll […]
Anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), together with ACE Live Tier member UEFA and with support from Mexican authorities, has disrupted a major PirloTV-linked sports piracy ring primarily targeting audiences across Latin America. The action targeted 44 associated domains ahead of the UEFA Champions League final, reflecting ACE’s broader strategy of using […]
The BBC has extended its rights agreement with UEFA for a further two years, ensuring every Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland senior men’s international football match remains live and free-to-air until June 2028. The new agreement will see the BBC broadcast around 60 live matches across the next two years, including this autumn’s UEFA Nations […]
Film London has announced changes to its senior leadership team, with Helena Mackenzie taking on the new, expanded role Head of Talent and Business Development and Rose Cupit promoted to Head of Artists’ Moving Image. Mackenzie continues to oversee film and TV inward investment into London, running landmark projects such as the Production Finance Market (PFM) […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has finalised a series of recommendations designed to drive action by online platforms, broadcasters and streaming services to give people the skills and information they need to critically and safely engage with the content they see. Ofcom has a statutory duty to promote media literacy and its three-year strategy outlines the regulator’plans […]
UK consumers are becoming more informed, more deliberate and less forgiving when it comes to how companies collect and use their personal data, according to research from Usercentrics. The State of Digital Trust 2026 report found that four in five (80 per cent) UK consumers would stop using a service if they discovered their data […]
Brussels is set to approve Paramount’s $111 billion (€97.9bn) takeover of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) on condition of certain remedies. The deal, agreed after a bidding war with Netflix, will combine some of the industry’s most valuable assets. The exact remedies are still being worked out between the companies and the European Commission after they […]
Following the creation of two new Director roles for Entertainment and Factual at the BBC earlier this year, the corporation is continuing to evolve how it commissions content by introducing a new entertainment structure. Kate Phillips, BBC’s Chief Content Officer, commented: “Commissioning needs to evolve so we can serve our audiences, and the creative community, right […]
With an overall score of 126,638 nPoints, the UK ranks just behind Romania (128,587 nPoints) in the ranking of the most efficient fixed internet connections between January and May 2026. This analysis, conducted by nPerf, covers 20 countries with land areas ranging from 119,000 to 477,000 km² – a scope that includes diverse territories such […]
June 22nd saw SpaceX’s share price tumble 16.4 per cent, and an overall fall of 31 per cent since the IPO’s all-time high. This fall represented a $927 billion (€816.5bn) fall over just three days of trading. SpaceX issued a Bond offering on June 22nd which didn’t help market confidence. The Bond is looking to […]
In the latest issue of Euromedia we take the temperature of the FAST business. Guess what? It is running very hot. There are hundreds more channels streaming out thousands more hours and carrying tens of thousands of ads. And viewers? Of course there are viewers, but enough to go around? The major platforms, Prime Video, […]