Comcast has announced strong subscriber growth in its Peacock streaming service which benefitfed from the return of major sporting events, as well as a post-pandemic boost from its theme parks. The company posted a 9 per cent increase in adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, at $9.2 billion in the first quarter, ahead […]
ITV Studios America has announced executive team promotions for Anuj Goyal being elevated to Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs and Neil Forcadela to Vice President, Production Finance, as well as the hire of Robert Sorkin as Vice President, Business Development and Strategy. The announcement comes following news of ITV Studios America producing FRANKLIN, starring […]
Amagi, a global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has launched the advanced version of its content planning and scheduling platform – Amagi PLANNER. The product, introduced in 2021, makes planning and scheduling of channel programming seamless and cost-effective for digital-first companies. Amagi PLANNER enhancements include flexibility in ad break scheduling, […]
Amagi, a global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has announced the general availability of Amagi ON-DEMAND, its robust content management solution for orchestrating Video-On-Demand (VoD) content workflows. The product has already seen successful deployments from early adopters. The product uses cloud automation to make every stage of the online content […]
NBCUniversal has announced two new additions to Peacock’s executive leadership team, naming Shannon Willett as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Brian Henderson as Executive Vice President, Programming. Both newly established roles report to Peacock President Kelly Campbell. “We are thrilled to welcome Shannon and Brian, two exceptional leaders that will play vital roles in making […]
Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, has joined the American Airlines inflight entertainment roster. Launching immediately, with a dedicated Peacock branded channel, the exclusive partnership features complimentary inflight access to the streamer’s catalogue of select Original content, with shows including Bel-Air, Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, Girls5eva and more Customers can access Peacock’s channel via seatback devices, […]
The US Soccer Foundation has named NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises as the organisation’s first official and exclusive Spanish-language media partner. Through this partnership, Telemundo joins the Foundation in its efforts to advance soccer as a means for helping children in underserved communities reach their full potential, including supporting the Foundation’s signature Soccer for Success youth programme, […]
At One22, NBCUniversal’s second annual local-to-global developer conference, the company laid out its vision for industry interoperability and cross-platform activation with new partner integrations and enhancements and updates to the company’s One Platform technology stack. Specifically, NBCUniversal says it is fully enabling programmatic buying on streaming platform Peacock and enabling programmatic guaranteed activation of NBCUnified […]
NBCUniversal has announced that Omnicom Media Group (OMG), the media services division of Omnicom Group, will be the first agency to integrate with the NBCU Audience Insights Hub, the company’s proprietary data clean room environment that unlocks data interoperability between NBCUniversal and its partners. By integrating with the Audience Insights Hub, OMG will be able […]
Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, has announced that its first WWE original series, WWE EVIL, will launch on March 24th. Created and hosted by John Cena, the 8-part docu-series is the latest expansion of WWE programming on Peacock, and the first-ever original from WWE Studios. Taking an unprecedented look inside the psyche some of the most […]