Global Academy, a media school founded by Global, the Media & Entertainment Group, has launched a new alternative to University for young creatives in Manchester who want to pursue a career in the creative industries. The course is based in Global’s North West broadcast centre and is free for school and college leavers aged 18. […]
Adeia, a company known for its innovations in entertainment experiences, has announced that Altimedia, a provider of solutions for managing advanced media services, has signed a multi-year licence renewal for access to Adeia’s media intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Altimedia offers a user experience (UX) platform to pay-TV and digital media service providers in the Korean […]
In advance of the 2024 NAB Show, 2G Digital Post, a specialist in media services, localisation and content quality control, announces their partnership with XL8, a player in AI-powered machine translation & AI localisation tools, designed and built from the ground up for the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry. Combining 2G Digital’s captioning, localisation and […]
Backlight, a media and entertainment software solution provider, has announced the appointment of Kathleen Barrett as its Chief Executive Officer. After more than a decade of leading video businesses, Barrett most recently served as CEO of IAC subsidiary Mosaic Group, one of the largest non-gaming app developers in the world with over 40 products and […]
Advanced Systems Group has announces the availability of the company’s Diaquest plugin for direct communication between Adobe Premiere desktops and the NVIDIA Holoscan for Media platform. The plugin allows for real-time audio and video output from a Premiere desktop (virtual or metal) into Holoscan for Media signal flow, as well as recording directly within Premiere. […]
RTL AdAlliance, RTL Group’s international media sales house, has announced its commitment to support mediaforgrowth, a UK-based media capital firm designed for growth-stage start-ups aiming to expand through mass-media channels and strategic media partnerships. mediaforgrowth supports founders to raise their first round of media capital via its flagship MFG Fundraising Programme. The programme offers a […]
North AI, a new Manchester-based AI startup for the media sector, has received £280,000 grant funding from Innovate UK, the UK’s Innovation Agency, with further £300,000 funding led by SFC Capital, as well as private angel investors from the media industry. North AI has been co-founded by the team from ‘Paus’, a VC-backed tech start-up […]
Appear, a specialist in live production technology, has been chosen by Vivaro Media to support live contribution of a major sporting event taking place this summer in Paris. Vivaro Media, which provides solutions for the global transport of live audiovisual content to broadcasters and service providers across Latin America, will deploy Appear’s award-winning X Platform […]
Fremantle has entered into a conditional purchase agreement to acquire production studio Asacha Media Group and its portfolio of labels based in France, Italy and the UK. The deal sees Fremantle acquire the Group from Asacha’s founding partners, managers and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management Asacha is made up of eight labels across scripted, […]
Go Button Media has announced a partnership with ZDF Studios. The German producer/distributor has commissioned its first major factual series from the Canadian indie and will also be responsible for its global distribution (excluding Canada). Go Button will also be continuing its successful partnership with Canadian broadcaster Super Channel on this series. Into the Universe: […]