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Freedom movie coming to Prime Video

Prime Video has revealed the official trailer for Freedom, the new film directed by Mélanie Laurent (The Mad Women’s Ball), starring Lucas Bravo (Emily in Paris), Léa Luce Busato (Alex Hugo) and Yvan Attal (Ad Vitam). Rasha Bukvic (Breathe), Steve Tientcheu (Aka), David Murgia (The Night of the 12th), Léo Chalié (Reign Supreme) and Slimane […]

September 16, 2024

Prime Video unveils Citadel: Diana

Prime Video has debuted the trailer and official key art for Citadel: Diana, the highly anticipated Italian series born from the world of Citadel, produced by Cattleya – part of ITV Studios – and Amazon MGM Studios, and executive produced by the Russo Brothers’ AGBO. Citadel: Diana stars Matilda De Angelis (The Undoing) in a […]

September 11, 2024

Report: Marketers continue to pull back on X ad spend

Kantar, the marketing insights and analytics company, has found that marketer confidence in X (formerly Twitter) has declined significantly in the past year, driven by brand safety concerns and poor perceptions around innovation and trust. The findings are included in Kantar’s Media Reactions 2024 report, an annual study exploring the evolving media landscape. The study, […]

September 5, 2024

Evergent’s Captivate Smart now available in AWS Marketplace

Evergent, a player in customer management and monetisation for streaming and digital subscription businesses, has announced that Captivate Smart, the company’s AI-backed payment recovery engine, is now available in AWS Marketplace. AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors, making it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy […]

September 4, 2024

Ateme, AWS partnership

Ateme, a player in video compression technology, has announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring their compression expertise to the Graviton platform with their Titan product line. By adopting AWS Graviton processors, Ateme will bring the benefits of ARM-based CPU architectures to AWS media customers with up to 60 per cent […]

September 3, 2024

Kelce brothers sign Amazon podcast deal

NFL stars and brothers, Travis and Jason Kelce. have signed a podcast deal with Amazon, reportedly worth $100 million (€90m). The three-year deal gives Wondery, an Amazon partner company, exclusive multimedia rights to the brothers’ popular New Heights podcast. The siblings launched the podcast in 2022, which sees the pair interviewing celebrity guests and discussing […]

August 28, 2024By Nik Roseveare

The new WNBA TV deal worth $2.2bn through 2036 

The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has had a record-breaking year in 2024, thanks to Indiana Fever’s addition of rookie Caitlin Clarke. The hype around this young superstar has created rivalries that raised the intensity and competition of games, which has attracted more viewership from sports fans across the US and resulted in a new […]

August 27, 2024

Forecast: Global ad spend to top $1tn in 2024

A study from WARC, specialists in marketing effectiveness, has found that global advertising spend is on course to grow 10.5 per cent in 2024 to a total of $1.07 trillion (€0.96tn) – the best performance in six years if the post-Covid recovery of 2021 (+27.9 per cent year-on-year) is disregarded. Ad spend growth is also […]

August 22, 2024

Jimmy Carr hosts Last One Laughing UK on Prime Video

Prime Video will launch a UK version of the international hit format, Last One Laughing, which will be hosted by comedian, television presenter and writer, Jimmy Carr. The series will see Carr challenge 10 of Britain’s best-known comics to spend the day together without so much as cracking a smile. Over the course of the […]

August 22, 2024By Nik Roseveare

Amazon acquire’s Xperi’s Perceive for $80m

Xperi has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Amazon.com Services to sell substantially all of the assets and certain liabilities of Perceive Corporation, a subsidiary focused on edge inference hardware and software technologies, for a gross amount of $80 million (€72.5m) in cash. “Since Perceive’s inception, the landscape for edge inference technology has evolved, […]

August 19, 2024