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ITV Studios reveals slew of APAC content sales

ITV Studios has announced a host of deals in Asia Pacific for scripted content across its catalogue, including pre-sales for brand new shows Anne, The Ipcress File, Holding, Redemption, Our House and season two of Noughts + Crosses. Anne (World Productions), the story of Anne Williams, an inspirational mother who dedicated her life to campaigning […]

December 3, 2021

Mosaku, Dooley, Maitlis, Coel, Moore amongst winners at The 30th Women in Film and TV Awards

The 30th Women in Film and TV (UK) Awards have taken place at the Park Lane Hilton celebrating 2021’s inspiring women from the film and TV industry, with fourteen awards categories covering all aspects of the industry including directing, performance, producing, business and project management. Hosted for the first time by Mel Giedroyc, a previous […]

December 3, 2021

Xmas content on ITV Hub ahead of broadcast

ITV has revealed plans to make Christmas shows available on ITV Hub each morning, ahead of their evening broadcast. The feature length Christmas special of The Larkins and the Christmas Day episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale will be among the content viewers will able to stream for those who don’t wish to wait. The […]

December 1, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Beyond Rights appoints Smyth as CEO

Beyond Rights, the content distributor, has announced that David Smyth will be joining the business as its new CEO on January 3rd. Smyth’s most recent role was founder and CEO of YouLook.tv, the UK multi-channel AVoD service. Before that he worked for lengthy periods at both 20th Century Fox where, latterly as SVP and managing […]

November 29, 2021

ITV launches ITV AdLabs

ITV has announced the launch of ITV Adlabs – a new enterprise and strategy to bring together all of ITV Commercial’s innovation. Unveiled at the ITV Palooza by Commercial MD Kelly Williams, and Deputy Commercial MD Simon Daglish, ITV AdLabs will exist to bring ITV’s customers closer to the development pipeline as new innovations are […]

November 24, 2021

Analyst: Is Britbox in trouble?

Earlier this month ITV unveiled its Q3 numbers with analysts praising the broadcaster for a much stronger than expected advertising take up and anticipating an advertising increase of around 24 per cent by the end of the trading year. But Britbox, the ITV and BBC-backed OTT service, could be in trouble. Analysts from investment bank […]

November 23, 2021

SnapLogic supports ITV’s digital project

SnapLogic, provider of its Intelligent Integration Platform, has been supporting ITV as it undertakes a new digital transformation project that will allow it to better distribute shows and content around the world. ITV creates, owns, and distributes content on multiple platforms globally with over 46,000 hours of content in their catalogue. After deploying SnapLogic as […]

November 23, 2021

ITV launches I’m A Celebrity in Fortnite with John Lewis

As part of the new series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, ITV is launching the show into the Metaverse, with a bespoke I’m A Celebrity experience in Fortnite Creative. The iconic Castle set has been recreated allowing players to take on their very own Castle Coin Challenges and camp trials throughout […]

November 23, 2021

The Switch works with ITV America on Love Island

The Switch, a provider of production services and global delivery of live video, joined forces with ITV America to create a unique workflow to support 24/7 live production of the reality show Love Island. The Switch installed a dedicated network between the main “Villa”, a second villa at “Casa Amor”  and the master control room […]

November 23, 2021

Winners of 2021 Rise Awards Celebrate Success

Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for gender diversity in the media technology sector, is thrilled to announce the winners for the 2021 Rise Awards. The awards ceremony, held on November 18th in London as part of the DPP Tech Leaders’ Briefing, was attended by over 200 in-person guests bringing the industry together for a great […]

November 19, 2021