A+E Networks EMEA has launched streaming service HISTORY Play in Hungary. The SVoD brand will offer exclusive documentaries and premium factual entertainment and will be available via RTL Most+ in the Hungarian market. The launch of HISTORY Play in Hungary marks the premiere of the brand in the Central-Eastern European region. HISTORY Play is already […]
The Global Internet Phenomena Report from network intelligence specialist Sandvine, which aggregates data from more than 160 Tier 1 and Tier 2 fixed and mobile networks worldwide, reveals what the company describes as “unprecedented” trends, including: Rapid growth of 1 Terabyte per month ‘heavy app users’, a trend that is expected to accelerate with the […]
Local reports seem to confirm China’s intentions to build and launch 13,000 low Earth orbiting satellites. The mega-constellation would rival the existing Starlink system from SpaceX, the UK and India-backed OneWeb scheme and a planned similar constellation from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) has called […]
Honeybee Robotics is to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Origin. A deal between Honeybee’s parent organisation, Ensign-Bickford Industries, and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, is expected to close in mid-February. Financial terms were not disclosed. Since 1983, Honeybee has delivered more than 1,000 advanced projects to government and industrial customers in the spacecraft, planetary […]
SPI/FilmBox has announced that FilmBox Arthouse, which delivers a curation of contemporary arthouse movies and world cinema, has launched on Prime Video Channels in the Netherlands as add-on paid monthly subscription package. The package currently features a SVoD proposition that allows viewers to choose the movies they would like to watch with the linear channel […]
Fox News International, Fox News Media’s international streaming service, has announced its expanded distribution on Roku. Starting January 31st, the direct-to-consumer platform will see increased reach across the UK, Chile, Costa Rica, Germany, Ireland, Mexico and Panama. Featuring live streams of Fox News Channel (FNC) and Fox Business Network (FBN) along with a catalogue of […]
Netflix dominated the latest Whip Watch Report of streaming originals among German viewers for the week of January 17th to January 23rd, thanks in large part to Archive 81 and the return of both Ozark and Too Hot to Handle. Overall, eight of the top 10 shows on the report were Netflix shows. The rankings […]
ThinkAnalytics, a global provider of cloud-based personalised content discovery, viewer insight, and targeted advertising solutions, has reported overall revenue growth of 20 per cent year on year. Significantly, four major new customer signings in North America, as well as others in Europe and Asia Pacific, will bring the total number of subscribers served by ThinkAnalytics […]
Prime Video has announced that season two of its Amazon Original series, Star Trek: Picard, will launch exclusively March 2th, excluding the US and Canada. Following the premiere, new episodes of the 10-episode-long second season will drop weekly on Fridays. Season two of Star Trek: Picard takes the legendary Jean-Luc Picard and his crew on […]
Quay Street Productions, the Manchester-based production company launched by prolific multi-award-winning producer Nicola Shindler OBE in 2021, has made five new hires across production, development and business affairs, ahead of its first raft of productions. Richard Fee, Davina Earl, Chris Leach, Athena Stavrakis and Kate Boyle join the growing team as Executive Producer, Head of […]