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Bloomberg Adria to launch in SE Europe

Bloomberg Media and Mtel Swiss – a broadcaster majority-owned by Telekom Srbija – have announced an agreement to create Southeast Europe’s first pan-regional, multi-platform business news network, with hubs in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia. Launching in 2022, Bloomberg Adria will serve business and financial news, analysis and data to the […]

October 15, 2021

Whip Media expands European footprint with Glance

Whip Media, the leading enterprise software platform and data provider to the world’s largest entertainment organizations, has partnered with Glance, the leading global audience and content insights specialist, to provide global data and insights for its Glance VOD Landscape Report. Part of Médiamétrie, Glance is the one-stop shop service providing official TV ratings for over […]

October 12, 2021

EC creates New Symphonie broadband consortium

The European Commission (EC) is bringing together a consortium of more than 20 European space sector businesses to collect and create ideas for what the EC describes as “an innovative European broadband constellation”. The grouping is headed by Unseenlabs and Euroconsult and the 22-member grouping has responded to an EC call for “New Space solutions […]

September 28, 2021By Chris Forrester

United Media engages Content Arena

Content Arena, the software partner for sports media rights industry, has reached an agreement with United Media, leading media company in Southeast Europe, for the digitization of its sports media rights management and sales processes. Under the agreement, Content Arena will provide a software solution tailored specifically to United Media’s sports media rights business. The […]

September 28, 2021

Forecast: 302m European homes passed with FTTH by 2026

The FTTH Council Europe has released two reports: the latest figures of the FTTH Forecasts for 2021 and 2026. and an overview of fibre deployments in rural areas. The market forecasts cover 39 countries and provide an individual analysis for 15 countries. Numbers are consistent with previous estimates and plan for around 197 million homes […]

September 15, 2021

Survey: Whip Media gauges thoughts on EU’s AVMSD

Whip Media has surveyed TV viewers in Spain, France, Germany and Italy to gauge their thoughts on the EUs Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) – where streaming services are required to devote at least a 30 per cent quota to European content. The majority of viewers in Spain (69 per cent) and France (58 per […]

September 15, 2021

Rakuten TV serves up food and culinary channels

Rakuten TV, the European VoD platform, has added a selection of food and culinary focused channels to its current portfolio. With the addition of Bon Appétit, Tastemade, Brindiamo!, L’Atelier des Chefs and iFood.tv the latest acquisitions further enhance the content offering in partnership with  number of European content creators and media groups. Rakuten TV now […]

August 3, 2021

Alpha Networks, blackpills announce exclusive partnership

Alpha Networks is the exclusive technical and business partner for the deployment of blackpills’ SVoD platform to several telecom operators in Europe, and more regions to follow. The new platform by the French production and distribution company is dedicated to short-form content and debuted in Spain with Telefónica/Movistar on July 19th. With the aim of […]

July 27, 2021

Insight TV FAST channels on Xiaomi devices

Insight TV, the global millennial-focused channel and content producer, has partnered with TV and smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi to bring its FAST (Free Advertising Supported Television) channels to Xiaomi mobile phones and TVs. The distribution agreement sees lifestyle channel Insight TV, action sports-focused channel inTrouble, science/technology channel inWonder and nature and wildlife channel InWild available to […]

July 26, 2021

European Cricket Network joins Recast

European Cricket fans are now able to watch video content from European Cricket Network (ECN) thanks to its new partnership with Recast, the sports OTT platform. The ECN are the latest organisation to join Recast in a bid to maximise revenue generation through fan viewership whilst ensuring fans have affordable access to the content they […]

July 5, 2021