Cadent, the advanced TV platform company, has announced the expansion of its addressable advertising management platform in Europe in partnership with Liberty Global. Cadent has now expanded its automated addressable linear and VoD Advertising Platform into Liberty Global’s Irish footprint, Virgin Media Ireland, with its continental European markets to follow starting in 2021. Cadent and […]
YouTube has removed TalkRadio’s channel from its platform. It has not given an explanation for its action, but there is speculation that it relates to its rules on Covid-19-related misinformation, according to the BBC. Fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the station. TalkRadio said it was seeking an […]
All four seasons of iconic US teen drama The OC will be launching on the All 4 streaming service on January 22nd. The multiple award-winning show presents the lives of a group of friends and family whose lives have forever been changed by the arrival of an outsider to their affluent oceanside community of Newport […]
US streaming platform HBO Max has announced that it will be the exclusive home to WarnerMedia Germany’s series Arthur’s Law, which is set to premiere on January 7th. The German-language dark comedy has won multiple awards including a Rockie Award as “best non-English comedy series.” In the show, unemployed Arthur Ahnepol ekes out a bleak existence. Drawn from the strains […]
A new BBC Radio 1 podcast, Di’s Salon with Dianne Buswell, will launch on January 21st on BBC Sounds. Before Strictly Come Dancing, Buswell was a full-time professional hairdresser and for her new podcast she’ll be going back to her roots as she invites some famous faces to join her in a virtual salon. Over […]
A report from Juniper Research has found that there will be nearly 2 billion active global subscriptions to on-demand video services in 2025; a 65 per cent increase over the end of 2020. The primary engine for this growth will be from traditional broadcasters, who are increasingly turning to streaming services in order to
SVoD services added 2.1 million subscribers in Italy during 2020, taking the total to 10.7 million in October, according to a study by EY in collaboration with Discovery and Fastweb. The study took into account OTT services Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, TIMVision, Infinity, NOW TV, Eurosport Player, Apple+ and DAZN. However, the overall number […]
Short-form mobile streaming service Quibi is in discussions to sell its content catalogue to streaming device and platform specialist Roku, according to the Wall Street Journal. The platform from Jeffrey Katzenberg launched in April 2020, as the pandemic began to take a firm hold, before announcing in October 2020 that it would wind down operations […]
Nearly 17 million pay TV subscribers will be added in Africa between 2020 and 2026 to take the total to 51 million, according to the Africa Pay TV Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. Nigeria will be close to 11 million, with South Africa bringing in another 9 million. “Multichoice had 15.51 million […]
Music consumption increased for a sixth year in 2020, with 155 million albums or their equivalent either streamed or purchased in 2020 – an 8.2 per cent rise on 2019, with growth led by streaming fuelled by label investment. There were some 139 billion audio streams – up by over a fifth – with nearly […]