Disney+ has acquired live rights to men’s Champions League football for the first time in the auction for the 2027-31 cycle. The agreement will see Disney+ provide coverage of all three men’s club competitions together in Sweden (Champions League, Europa League and Conference League – while exclusive rights to the Europa League and Conference League […]
Netflix is rolling out out a new mobile experience that it says makes it faster, easier and more fun to find something to watch, listen to, or play. The new design puts personalised content suggestions front and centre, with streamlined navigation and a visual, vertical discovery experience. Netflix is also introducing Clips, a new vertical […]
Canal+ has announced the acquisition of UEFA Men’s Club Competition rights across several European markets for four seasons from 2027/2028 to 2030/2031: • In Poland, renewal of 100 per cent of UEFA Champions League rights on an exclusive basis. • In Austria, 100 per cent of UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League rights on […]
Everyone is talking about FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV), which for content owners, channel operators, and streaming platforms, is both an opportunity and a challenge. Distribution has never been more accessible, but attention has never been harder to earn. So, how do you stand out without falling into the trap of over-promising or over-spending? FAST […]
The Advertising Association and WARC has published a refreshed advertising Expenditure Report, following extensive collaboration with industry stakeholders to ensure advertising investment reflects the evolving media landscape. The latest report – drawn from a survey of media owners and the industry bodies that represent them – reveals that UK advertising investment increased by 6.4 per […]
Sports streaming platform DAZN has reached an deal to acquire ViewLift, a provider of streaming and digital solutions for content owners, in a deal valued at $100 million (€85.4m). ViewLift’s sports clients include 15 major US pro sports teams, five Regional Sports Networks, and global sports properties (including the NBA, NHL and MLB), as well […]
IP House and the Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA) have released research exposing the growing convergence between global piracy networks and organised crime. The report, Organised. Piracy. Crime.: How Global Piracy Networks Became Organized Crime Syndicates – And What Needs to be Done About It, provides comprehensive analysis of how large-scale digital piracy has evolved into […]
Mediator, the Spanish audiovisual group, reports it has reached an agreement with employee representatives to implement a workforce reduction plan at its subsidiary, Grup Mediapro SLU, as part of a broader effort to reinforce the company’s position in an audiovisual sector “undergoing profound transformation”. The agreement provides for the departure of 189 employees – which […]
DAZN, the sports streaming platform, is partnering with TikTok to offer users in the UK & Ireland the chance to livestream a Serie A fixture on the TikTok platform for the first time. On May 3rd at 2pm (BST), Sassuolo v AC Milan will stream live on the DAZN Football TikTok channel, offering access to […]
Groupe M6 and OpenAI have announced a partnership to launch the M6+ application on the ChatGPT Store. This initiative marks the first time a streaming platform in France has been integrated directly into a conversational AI ecosystem. At the core of this collaboration is M6+, the free streaming service operated by Groupe M6 which aggregates […]
Four of the world’s biggest tech giants – Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft – have published their earnings for the first quarter of 2026. All four companies beat analyst expectations on the top and bottom lines, fuelled primarily by a massive re-acceleration in AI-driven demand and an increase in cloud expenditure. However, the market’s reaction […]
SES CEO Adel Al-Saleh met with FCC chairman Brendan Carr and senior staffers earlier this April to discuss and hear more of the FCC’s plan to reallocate certain C-band frequencies for the benefit of US cellular operators. The amounts involved are considerable. The first time the FCC reallocated C-band spectrum saw SES and Intelsat (which […]
The worst kept secret in broadcasting is out; Matt Brittin becomes BBC DG to wrestle with the myriad challenges facing the corporation. News focuses on his background as a senior European Google executive. He’s also a white, male, British, Oxbridge graduate in his late fifties. Don’t hold your breath for radical moves. He’s also a […]