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Chavez joins Tastemade as Head of Marketing

Tastemade has announced that marketing executive, Rubi Chavez, has joined the media company as Head of Marketing. Chavez has more than 15 years of experience launching and growing global entertainment and lifestyle brands. In her new role, Chavez will report directly to CEO & Co-Founder Larry Fitzgibbon, and will be responsible for building out the […]

June 11, 2021

WarnerMedia Kids APAC appoints Lim

WarnerMedia has appointed Melissa Lim as the new head of content acquisitions and co-productions for its kids networks in Asia Pacific, which include POGO, Cartoon Network and Boomerang. She also advises on licensing content to fuel the growing slate of kids and family programming on the regional streaming service HBO GO in Southeast Asia. Limis […]

June 10, 2021

Cisco: “Fastly out shows too few CDN providers”

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 […]

June 9, 2021

Sky Documentaries marks 1st anniversary with new Originals

Sky has announced five new Sky Original documentaries that builds on a successful first year for Sky Documentaries The channel has aired critically acclaimed Originals such as TINA, Bruno v Tyson and Exterminate All the Brutes in its first 12 months, as well as acquired documentaries including Framing Britney Spears and McMillion$ which attracted strong […]

June 9, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Fastly outage downs BBC, HBO, Twitch

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 […]

June 8, 2021

New Rick & Morty on HBO Max in SE Asia

WarnerMedia’s streaming service for Southeast Asia – HBO GO – has secured exclusive rights to season five of the hit animated comedy Rick and Morty. HBO GO will be streaming the multi-Emmy Award-winning series in the region from June 21st. Seasons 1-4 of the show are already available on the service. At the same time, […]

June 8, 2021By Nik Roseveare

HBO Max appoints Malhotra MD in SE Asia, India

WarnerMedia has announced that Amit Malhotra will join the company later this month as Managing Director for HBO Max in Southeast Asia and India. He will report to Johannes Larcher, Head of HBO Max International, and will be responsible for the rollout and management of WarnerMedia’s direct-to-consumer platform in Southeast Asia. He will immediately assume […]

June 7, 2021

HBO Max ad-supported tier now available

HBO Max, the US streaming service, has launched its new advertising-supported subscription tier. HBO Max now provides consumers the option to choose between the existing ad-free subscription option at $14.99 (€12.27) per month, or one with ads for $9.99 per month. HBO Max is also offering new and returning subscribers the option to pre-pay and […]

June 3, 2021

‘Warner Bros. Discovery’ name for merged company

Multichannel programmer Discovery has revealed the new name of the proposed standalone global entertainment company that will emerge from the combination of WarnerMedia and Discovery assets as ‘Warner Bros. Discovery’. It suggests the Warner Bros. Discovery name will honour, celebrate and elevate the world’s most-storied creative studio in the world with the high quality, global […]

June 2, 2021

HBO Max launches in LatAm on June 29

HBO Max, the WarnerMedia SVoD platform, will launch in 39 territories in Latin America and the Caribbean starting June 29th, with a collection of curated titles from across WarnerMedia’s catalogue and slate of original series and movies, Max Originals, plus live sports in Brazil and Mexico later this year. “Our launch in Latin America and […]

May 27, 2021