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ZEE5 Global announces third collab with Applause

ZEE5 Global, the largest platform for South-Asian content, has been consistently entertaining viewers with premium and diverse content offerings. The platform aims to be home to the best storytellers and as part of this vision, ZEE5 Global collaborated with Applause and announced a multi-show partnership at the end of last year. After successfully launching Kaun […]

February 17, 2022

24i powers Waoo

24i, the video streaming specialist, has announced its streaming platform is now being used by Danish fibre broadband provider Waoo to bring its pay-TV service to a new generation of Android TV set top boxes, adding third party aggregated content and enhanced search functionality. Waoo has used the 24i streaming platform since 2010 to bring […]

February 16, 2022

Streaming drama could be a horror show

This columnist’s conviction that Netflix’s business model is fundamentally a plate-spinning act, with the same potential mishaps, has waxed and waned as results have continued to boom, with just the odd bump in the road. But the conviction has never gone away completely, even as the company seemed to reach the status of 800lb gorilla […]

February 14, 2022

French creatives slam SVoD investment rules

French authors association SACD, along with producers’ bodies USPA and AnimFrance, have asked France’s Conseil d’État (Council of State) to scrap the conventions signed by US SVoD platforms Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ with regulatory body Arcom (formerly the CSA) in December 2021. The SACD and its allies also wrote to Arcom requesting the withdrawal […]

February 10, 2022From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

t4h’s ALVA RCU wins Red Dot Design Award 2021

t4h (Tech4home), a global remote control service provider, has won the Red Dot Design Award 2021, for one of the company’s latest innovations, the ALVA RCU. This award comes for the fifth consecutive time as t4h manages to dominate the market with its innovative designs yet again. “It truly is a surreal moment for all […]

February 10, 2022

Forecast: Digital ad spend at $753bn in 2026

A Juniper Research study forecasts that global digital advertising spend will increase from $407 billion (€356.3bn) in 2022 to $753 billion in 2026; representing growth of 85 per cent. The report found that mobile in-app revenue will account for 56 per cent of global spend by 2026. The research, Digital Advertising: Emerging Trends, Key Opportunities […]

February 7, 2022

Vevo launches on Google TV, Android

Music video network Vevo is bringing the Vevo app to Google TV and other Android TV OS devices. Vevo’s TV app will be available on Android TV OS devices across the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Mexico, and Brazil, significantly boosting Vevo’s global TV footprint. Given the popularity of Android […]

February 3, 2022

Google invests $1bn in Bharti Airtel

Google says it is to invest up to $1 billion in India’s Bharti Airtel as part of its ‘Google for India’ digitisation fund. The Google/Bharti deal includes investment of $700 million to acquire 1.28 per cent ownership in Airtel and up to $300 million toward potential multi-year commercial agreements. The agreement is a multi-year, long-term […]

February 2, 2022By Chris Forrester

Telenor reports strong cash flow in 2021

Telenor has reported that several years of modernisation and digitalisation initiatives enabled it to deliver solid operational results for 2021, despite impact from the ongoing pandemic. For the full year the multinational telco delivers stable subscription and traffic revenues and EBITDA. The strong free cash flow of NOK 13 billion (€1.31bn) supports the proposed dividend […]

February 2, 2022

Report: Video everywhere driving heavy app usage

The Global Internet Phenomena Report from network intelligence specialist Sandvine, which aggregates data from more than 160 Tier 1 and Tier 2 fixed and mobile networks worldwide, reveals what the company describes as “unprecedented” trends, including: Rapid growth of 1 Terabyte per month ‘heavy app users’, a trend that is expected to accelerate with the […]

January 31, 2022