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High School premieres on Amazon Freevee in October

Amazon Freevee has unveiled a first look at its new series High School, an eight-episode coming-of-age drama based on the New York Times best-selling memoir of the same name from Canadian music artists Tegan and Sara. The first four episodes of High School will premiere on October 14th, with new episodes available every Friday exclusively […]

August 15, 2022By Nik Roseveare

Saltbox TV selects Bitcentral

Bitcentral, a efficient media workflows for broadcast and digital video, has partnered with Saltbox TV, a content studio and online platform dedicated to older adults, to expand Saltbox TV’s audience reach and enable monetisation through programmatic advertising. The partnership sees Saltbox TV use Bitcentral’s recently acquired Powr.tv platform to distribute its content to many kinds […]

August 15, 2022

Prime Video releases first-look at UK original series Jungle

Prime Video has released the first-look teaser for the highly anticipated UK Original six-part scripted series, Jungle, produced by Nothing Lost. The new series will launch exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories on September 30th. Jungle follows the connected lives of several strangers, each facing their own struggle, viewed through the prism of UK […]

August 12, 2022

Survey: UK terrestrial TV consumption trending upwards

Attest, a consumer research platform, has released the findings from the latest edition of its Quarterly UK Media Consumption Tracker. It provides continuous insights into how Brits’ habits across television, audio, news, and social media continue to evolve. The effects of inflation can be seen in Attest’s Q2 UK media consumption tracker results, with the […]

August 11, 2022

Amazon Freevee now on Apple devices in UK

Amazon Freevee, formerly IMDb TV, is now available in the UK through the App Store on iPhone and iPad, as well as Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD. Amazon Freevee offers a number of originals including crime drama Bosch: Legacy, home-design series Hollywood Houselift with Jeff Lewis, and the service’s first Original film, Love Accidentally, as well as the upcoming premiere […]

August 11, 2022By Nik Roseveare

Bank: “LADbible outperforming the market”

LADbible’s social media brands have an audience of around 1 billion, with 262 million followers globally and claims 28 billion content views every year. Investment bank Berenberg has compared and contrasted the progress of LADbible, part of LBG Media, against some heavyweight peers including Google, Amazon, Criteo, Snap and ITV, and importantly, online and video […]

August 9, 2022

History Hit launches on Prime Video Channels UK

History Hit, the SVoD and content platform founded by historian Dan Snow and acquired by Little Dot Studios (an All3Media company), has launched on Prime Video Channels in the UK. Already available on Amazon devices as an app via Amazon Fire TV, this launch will enable Prime Video Channels customers to access the full History […]

July 28, 2022

Amazon raising Prime price

Amazon has announced that it will soon increase the cost of its Prime service subscription – which gives access to the Prime Video streaming service and a range of shopping incentives. A Prime subscription will rise from £7.99 a month to £8.99 on September 15th for new customers, or on the date of the customer’s […]

July 26, 2022

Country Music Awards returning to Prime Video

Prime Video has announced the return of the Academy of Country Music Awards, in collaboration with the Academy of Country Music and MRC, which will livestream exclusively for a global audience in 2023 from Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. The 2023 awards show, the 58th annual ACM show, is set for May […]

July 20, 2022

Riot Games taps AWS

Riot Games and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have teamed up to transform how Riot’s esports content is created and distributed in the cloud. Riot is the first company to use AWS’s data analytics integration for esports broadcasts to reimagine how fans experience League of Legends (LoL), VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift events. As […]

July 19, 2022