Athvance Capital has announced its launch as a European investment platform fully dedicated to unlocking long-term value across the global sports industry. Backed by a senior team of entrepreneurs and investors with decades of experience in sports, media, technology and finance, Athvance invests in emerging and under-commercialised sports IP with global reach, and in the […]
The GSMA, on behalf of Europe’s mobile operators, has issued a statement in response to the Digital Networks Act. The statement in full is presented below: For Europe to compete on the global stage, it needs a best-in-class digital ecosystem to underpin its industry, security and innovation capabilities. Reforming Europe’s framework for telecoms with the […]
Fibre rollout across Europe is falling short of operators’ financial expectations. Kearney’s latest European Telecom Health Index shows that in slow-adopter markets – Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Ireland and Denmark – returns on capital employed (ROCE) have dropped to 6 per cent, with fibre take-up closer to 45 per cent. By contrast, high-performing markets such […]
Eurovision Classical Concerts, a new pan-European music series developed under the Eurovision brand, is set to be broadcast by 22 public service media organisations across Europe. The four-concert series is a co-production led by BBC Arts, in partnership with WDR (Germany), RTP (Portugal) and Yle (Finland), and represents the first new Eurovision music co-production with […]
TripleLift, the creative SSP, has announced a significant expansion into the dynamic Southern European market through preferred partnerships with top digital marketing agencies: Amazing Agency in Spain and Witailer in Italy. The expansion, which significantly enhances the company’s footprint in one of Europe’s fastest-growing ad markets, will be overseen by Prune Nouvion, TripleLift’s France Country […]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), France Télévisions and Cartoon have announced a new collaborative animation production project, developed for young audiences across Europe. Following a competitive selection process, French production Elle(s) was chosen from over 70 projects presented at the 2025 edition of Cartoon Forum, a pitching & co-pro forum for animated TV projects. Produced […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has created a €500 million fund for Space-based technology. The fund, ‘Space Tech EU’ is intended to bring together the skills of the of EIB, the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA) to help de-risk space projects, making them more acceptable for other financing from European banks. The […]
Harmonic and Normann Engineering announced a major milestone in their strategic collaboration, celebrating 20 successful broadband deployments with leading operators across Europe. The partnership brings together Harmonic’s industry-leading cOS virtualised broadband platform and suite of network devices with Normann Engineering’s trusted engineering expertise to help operators modernise their networks, accelerate next-gen broadband rollouts and deliver […]
Even though some programme approvals are still pending, the European Space Agency (ESA) wrapped up its two day Ministerial meeting in Bremen, Germany, by announcing it had received commitments from its 27 member states which total €22.1 billion for the next three years. The sum is the largest-ever with the ESA noting: “Confirmed support for […]
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ministerial meeting in Bremen, Germany, on November 26th has hit its first snag. The meeting was due to approve an overall €22.5 billion budget including expenditure for a major satellite constellation which would have seen a global intelligence, surveillance and reconnaisance project started. Now the 27-nation ministries have an additional […]