Verimatrix, a specialist in powering the connected world with people-centred security, has announced its support for the AWS for Media & Entertainment initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS) – enabling content service providers that deploy on AWS to implement Verimatrix’s Multi-DRM Core solution to negotiate premium content rights with pre-approved and pre-integrated security for the distribution of licensed […]
BT Sport is launching a beta of its new ‘timeline’ feature on its app for TV screens in time for this week’s UEFA Europa League and UEFA Champions League finals. While viewers have been able to use the timeline feature on mobiles and tablets for several seasons as part of the app’s enhanced player, this […]
Amazon Prime Video and National Theatre have announced a collaboration which will see four productions filmed by the National Theatre broadcast exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in the UK and Ireland from June 11th. The productions include the National Theatre’s Frankenstein, directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle and written by Nick Dear, in which […]
Bitmovin, a provider of video infrastructure for global digital media companies, has announced its support for the AWS for Media & Entertainment initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to optimize video encoding workflows, enhance the consumer viewing experience and significantly lower cost. AWS for Media & Entertainment is an initiative featuring new and existing services […]
Amazon Prime Video will premiere the British remake of acclaimed French series Call My Agent! exclusively in the UK and Ireland. BAFTA award winner John Morton (Twenty Twelve, W1A) is writing and directing the first two episodes and executive producing the series. It will feature cameos from Hollywood stars Kelly Macdonald, Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent, […]
The Six Nations rugby tournament is expected to remain on free-to-air television, with the rights being shared between BBC and ITV. The Six Nations organisers have been in talks with Sky Sports, BT Sport and Amazon who were each seeking to secure the broadcast rights to the tournament, which would see matches put behind a […]
At Prime Video Presents Australia 2021, Amazon Prime Video announced the greenlight of its first Australian Original feature-length documentary made in Australia, titled Burning. From executive producers Cate Blanchett and Eva Orner, who also serves as director, Burning takes an unflinching look at the deadly Australian bushfires between 2019-2020, known as the ‘Black Summer’. The […]
Eleanor Lawrence has joined London-based production company Lucky 17, sister of the multi award-winning talent agency UTC Artist Management (part of The UTC Group), as partner and Head of Scripted to spearhead their move into original content creation. Working closely with co-founders David Geli and Pollyanna McGirr, Lawrence will focus the creation of original IP […]
Amazon is in talks to buy MGM Studios, one of the world’s oldest production studios, for $9 billion (€7.3bn). A deal would see Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service gain access to a vast back catalogue of iconic content – including the James Bond franchise, the Rocky movies, The Hobbit trilogy and The Handmaid’s Tale TV […]
Based on analysis of over 80 OTT services (over 50 providers), led by Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO, Convergence Research estimates that US OTT access revenue grew by 35 per cent to $29.6 billion in 2020, and forecasts 35 per cent growth to $39.9 billion for 2021, and $59.4 billion for 2023 (double 2020). Although […]