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Study: Digital entertainment becoming interconnected

As the global entertainment market stabilises, findings from Futuresource Consulting’s Living With Digital study reveal a shift away from platform competition towards a more interconnected content ecosystem. Drawing on a nationally representative study of 14,000 consumers, across seven markets, the research highlights how audiences are increasingly engaging across cinema, streaming and transactional formats, with each […]

May 22, 2026

Mediaset ordered to pay ITV €73m

Mediaset Spain has been ordered to pay €73.2 million to UK broadcaster and format owner ITV in one of the largest television rights rulings ever seen in Spain. The Provincial Court of Madrid partially upheld an appeal by ITV that significantly increased the compensation Mediaset España must pay over profits generated from what the court […]

May 22, 2026From David Del Valle in Madrid

Studios reject Canada tariff

Hollywood studios have pushed back hard on the CRTC’s order that American streamers must direct 15 per cent of their Canadian revenues into local indie production as part of the country’s Online Streaming law. “The Motion Picture Association strongly condemns the CRTC’s decision to impose unprecedented, unnecessary, and discriminatory investment obligations on American streaming services […]

May 22, 2026

Italy: Major anti-piracy success

The Ravenna Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza), with the support of the Special Units for the Protection of Privacy and Technological Fraud and Goods and Services and numerous other units of the outfit, carried out over 100 searches and seizures throughout Italy. These were commissioned by the Bologna Public Prosecutor’s Office as part of an […]

May 22, 2026By Colin Mann

Ofcom: Harmful social media content still an issue

Ofcom has published its latest research into how children spend their time online and interact with different forms of media. The media regulator’s Children’s Online Experiences report contains a wealth of findings about what children do when they’re online, and how they feel about their online activities and the content they encounter. Children are using […]

May 22, 2026

Fremantle UK acquires minority stake in Craft Films

Production company Fremantle UK has acquired a minority stake in Craft Films, the multi-genre production company working across branded, commercial, digital and long-form content, as the production group continues to expand its capabilities across short and long-form production while strengthening its commercial and multi-platform offering. Founded in 2016 by Nick Brown, Rob Davies and Phil […]

May 22, 2026

Study: 80% Marketers optimise without verified purchase data

Despite years of significant technological investments, most marketers still cannot connect ad exposure to actual purchases in real-time for measurement or optimisation, according to research released by the Affinity Solutions Outcomes Marketing Council, a collaborative forum that includes leaders from DoubleVerify, Claritas, Lexitas and more, focused on advancing outcomes-based advertising and measurement.  The study found […]

May 22, 2026

Turkcell, Sateliot test 5G IoT

Sateliot, a leading 5G Internet of Things (IoT) satellite constellation operator, and Turkcell, Türkiye’s major telecommunications and technology company, have successfully completed a test of 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) IoT connectivity via satellite both in Barcelona and Istanbul. The demo was designed to test and confirm standards-based 5G NB-IoT NTN connectivity over Sateliot’s Low Earth […]

May 22, 2026By Chris Forrester

World Sevens Football London Edition on DAZN

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, will bring the upcoming World Sevens Football London Edition to fans around the world for free, in partnership with World Sevens Football (W7F). The first-ever London edition of the competition will be staged at Brentford FC’s Gtech Community Stadium from May 28th-30th.  DAZN is W7F’s exclusive global streaming partner as […]

May 22, 2026

MPs endorse Ian Cheshire Ofcom chair appointment

The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee of the UK House of Commons has endorsed the government’s preferred candidate, Sir Ian Cheshire, as the new chair of media and communications regulator Ofcom. The cross-party committee has produced a report setting out its endorsement of Sir Ian after holding a pre-appointment hearing on Wednesday May 20th. During […]

May 22, 2026By Colin Mann

CIMM calls for industry-aligned frameworks around media quality

The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) has released findings from its paper, Quality Matters: Navigating Quality in Media Buying and Measurement, advancing the thesis that Media Quality (MQ) signals – the non-user-specific attributes of an ad placement such as attention and situational context – are becoming a critical link for valuing media in an […]

May 22, 2026
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The world is getting very anxious about AI, and who can blame them? What can AI really do, what will it be able to do, can we trust those in charge of it, can we stop them, can we stop it? Not surprising then that politicians seem to circle the problem and then put it […]

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