Fastly has said that its global outage on June 8th was triggered when one of its customers changed their settings. Cisco-owned ThousandEyes, which constantly monitors the Internet, released a statement from its Director of Product Angelique Medina in reaction to the news. Medina commented: “Most of the sites we visit, the apps we use and […]

An outage at edge CDN provider Fastly saw several high-profile sites off air for over an hour earlier today (June 8th) including the BBC, HBO, Hulu, Vimeo, FT, CNN, Twitch, the UK government and many more. The firm said there were issues with its global CDN and was implementing a fix. A statement said: “We […]

With the pandemic seeing the Glastonbury Festival cancelled for a second consecutive year, BBC Music is once again hosting a celebration of the iconic event across BBC television, BBC iPlayer, BBC radio and BBC Sounds, from June 25th to 27th. Lorna Clarke, Controller, BBC Pop Music, commented: “Summer wouldn’t be complete without a celebration of […]

There are significant opportunities in podcast advertising in Europe and the US, according to Dataxis. In terms of audiences, the two continents have experienced strong growth since 2015. The podcast penetration of podcast listeners in Europe tripled between 2015 and 2020, reaching almost 25 per cent of the European population in the US, the penetration […]

Michaela Coel became the first person in BAFTA history to win awards in the key categories of Leading Actress, Writer, Director and Mini-Series for her BBC drama, I May Destroy You. Coel picked up Leading Actress and Best Mini-Series at the BAFTA TV ceremony in London on June 6th. Last month, she won writing and […]

Liliane Landor has been appointed as Senior Controller of BBC News International Services, responsible for the corporation’s global news strategy. In this role she will be the Director of the BBC World Service and oversee BBC Monitoring and BBC Media Action. While Landor joins the BBC from Channel 4 News – where she has been […]

Iconic children’s show Bagpuss is debuting on the BBC iPlayer, with every episode arriving on May 30th. Made by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, the children’s stop motion animation was first broadcast in 1974. Despite only having 13 episodes, the programme has remained hugely popular across generations. The puppet series is set in Emily’s shop, a […]

Extreme E’s second race – the Ocean X-Prix – in its inaugural season calendar takes place on May 29th – 30th at Lac Rose in Senegal where it will again be teaming up with short video platform, TikTok, to produce digital live content to further bolster the series’ social media offering. Extreme E’s broadcast of […]

The BBC says that this year’s Proms heralds “a summer of live music on a scale not seen since before the pandemic”. With 52 concerts over 44 days featuring 30 orchestras and ensembles, over 100 soloists and conductors and more than 2,000 musicians, this ambitious season celebrates the 150th anniversary of the event. Audiences will […]