Discovery has announced it will join the On Addressability initiative, along with other major media organisations and distribution partners Charter’s Spectrum Reach, Comcast Advertising and Cox Media, to unlock addressable advertising capabilities across the organisation’s suite of 18 US networks. The On Addressability initiative enables Discovery to offer advertisers dynamic ad insertion in both VoD […]
Electric off-road motor racing series Extreme E and Discovery have agreed one of the championship’s most expansive broadcast and streaming partnerships that will see millions of motorsport fans offered live and on-demand race coverage across Europe and North America. The three-year agreement will see Extreme E screened in over 50 European markets on Eurosport, Discovery’s […]
Eurosport is set to kick-start its exclusive on-site coverage of the World Snooker Championships by showing every round – including qualifying – from July 21st across Europe in more than 50 markets. The main draw of snooker’s biggest event will also be broadcast live from July 31st across Eurosport channels and the Eurosport App alongside […]
Discovery Italia has seen the highest growth in audience share over 24 hours (+8 per cent) among Italian broadcasters during the first six months of 2020. However, the Covid-19 health emergency impacted the group’s advertising sales, dropping by 14.6 per cent in the first four months of 2020 (-49 per cent in April alone). On […]
Discovery has announced the launch of OneGraph, a new ad product that will unify audiences across all of Discovery’s linear and digital platforms. When combined with Discovery Engage, the company’s advanced advertising solution, OneGraph will offer marketers a single platform to reach and analyse Discovery’s 30 per cent share of cable television viewers across all platforms, including […]
Discovery brands reached numerous ratings milestones among core female viewership for 2020, the recently closed second quarter and the month of June, led by the top four non-news cable networks among W25-54 in Q2: HGTV (#1), Food Network (#2), TLC (#3) and ID (#4). Discovery holds the #1 most-watched pay TV portfolio in the US […]
Whip Media Group, a company offering data-driven content value management platform powering global entertainment organisations, has announced a strategic global partnership with BB, a media intelligence and content distribution researcher. As part of the exclusive partnership, the companies will provide a real-time streaming availability for more than 4+ million television episodes and movies across 60 […]
The Singapore High Court has granted an order sought by BBC Studios, Discovery, the Premier League, La Liga and broadcaster TVB for Singapore’s Internet Service Providers to block access to seventeen domains associated with popular piracy streaming sites and forty-one domains associated with popular illicit streaming device (ISD) applications. These apps, which flagrantly infringe copyright […]
Discovery has acquired German FTA entertainment channel Tele5 from media company Leonine and agreed a long-term deal with the former owner for its scripted content. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals. “This enables us to tap new target audience groups and expand our marketing potential with the reach of Tele 5. In addition, the […]
CuriosityStream has named media, entertainment and digital education veteran Bill Goodwyn to the newly created role of Chief Revenue Officer and Executive Vice President of Strategy, Business Development & Partnerships. CuriosityStream President and CEO Clint Stinchcomb, to whom Goodwyn will report, made the announcement. Stinchcomb said: “Imagine if Bill’s fellow Tarheel Michael Jordan returned to […]