Mad Men has found a new streaming home. From July 15th, all seven seasons of the multi-award winning drama starring Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss — which were previously available on Netflix until June of this year — will stream for free, with commercials, on the Amazon-owned IMDb TV. IMDb TV is currently only available […]
Amazon Prime Video is beginning to roll out a co-viewing feature to Amazon Prime members in the US. The ‘Watch Party’ feature, which is included at no extra cost with a Prime membership, allows participants to watch video content together at the same time with the playback synchronised to the host’s account. The host of […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reaching even further into the sky with a new division called Aerospace & Satellite Solutions. A report in the WSJ says that it will focus on space projects for a variety of customers including NASA, the US military and Space Force and important aerospace companies such as Lockheed Martin and […]
Ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform Pixalate has launched the Connected TV/OTT Seller Trust Index (CSTI), describing it as a “breakthrough” addition to Pixalate’s suite of programmatic seller quality ranking, and the world’s first quality-based ranking system for programmatic OTT/CTV sellers. Pixalate’s new CSTI ranks the overall quality of programmatic sellers across three major […]
The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen to build a £100 million space-tech incubation centre in Leicester, UK. The ESA is not part of the European Union Space Park Leicester is an extension of ESA’s existing Business Incubation thrust for R&D. It joins Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire, Sci-Tech Daresbury in the North West and the […]
Amazon Prime Video has announced the return of the Spanish football icon, Captain of Real Madrid and the Spain’s National Football team, Sergio Ramos, with a new docuseries following the success of the 3 Daytime Emmy Award nominee El Corazon de Sergio Ramos. The Legend of Sergio Ramos will launch exclusively on Prime Video in […]
The Boys, arguably the biggest breakout TV series of 2019, will return to Amazon Prime Video with a second season on September 4th. The announcement was made in an online event featuring the cast, and hosted by actor and comedian Patton Oswalt – who himself will join the cast in Season 2. The first three […]
Amazon would seem to be preparing to add live TV to its services, according to recently posted job adverts. One of the adverts indicates that Amazon is looking to hire someone to “redefine how customers watch 24/7 linear broadcast TV content” by “designing the end-to-end customer experience for how customers discover and watch Linear TV […]
Amazon Rekognition Video is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyse videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect any inappropriate content. Now, the service can automate four common media analysis tasks – detection of black frames, end credits, shot changes, and colour bars using fully managed, […]
World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji will launch on Amazon Prime Video on August 14th in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. This 10-episode adventure series, hosted by Bear Grylls and executive produced by Mark Burnett, tells the story of the ultimate expedition race, in which 66 teams from 30 countries race non-stop for 11 […]