In the early to mid 20th Century, there were the movie moguls; Mayer, Zukor, the Warners, Zanuck, Goldwyn, Fox. In the mid-late 20th Century came the media moguls: Murdoch, Berlusconi, Redstone, Maxwell, Turner. All of them were big in business but all of them were also characters about whom their studios could have made scarcely […]
The EBU and the Alianza Informativa Latinoamericana (AIL), have formed a content-sharing agreement that they say “opens a new chapter in global news collaboration between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean”. The agreement connects the EBU’s Eurovision News Exchange (EVN) with AIL’s network of 21 broadcasters, enabling reciprocal access to diverse news content. For the […]
News UK has announced the launch of a new Synthetic Audiences Product, Times ExplorAItion, as part of its Nucleus data platform. Rolling out across Times Media’s properties, the seeks to help brands and agencies drive advertising effectiveness by testing strategies, creative & hypotheses against a synthetic audience before committing real budgets in the market. Built […]
GB News has launched in India as part of a distribution deal with NeoTV+, giving the channel access to English-speaking audiences across Asia and accelerating its international expansion. The channel is now available to viewers across India and wider Asia via the NeoTV+ app, under an agreement delivered in partnership with technology provider iKO Media […]
A study commissioned by the EBU, and carried out by Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates (O&O), shows that when Lithuanians use their public broadcaster, LRT, more, they also use private news websites more. Looking at four years of audience data (2022–2026), the study finds consistent positive links across all key metrics. For instance, a 1 per cent increase in LRT page views is […]
With the opinion polls pointing to a political earthquake of a result in the Welsh Parliament elections, Channel 4 News will bring together all six party leaders for a live hour-long debate in Cardiff at 7pm on April 21st – just over two weeks before polling day. This will give voters in Wales, and a TV […]
Amagi has launched Newspulse, an Agentic AI platform that watches live news broadcasts and scans VoD libraries, automatically identifying individual stories and packaging them as social-ready clips, vertical videos, and news bulletins. Today, 93 per cent of young adults (ages 18–29) get their news via digital devices, and 76 per cent rely directly on social […]
A new episode of the ITV News digital-first history brand Reporting History, published today (April 1st), has shared previously un-broadcast footage of Princess Diana’s trip to Angola in January 1997, in support of a worldwide ban on the use of landmines. Starring Steve Scott, the Africa Correspondent for ITV News at the time, the episode […]
StudioB, the creative, strategy and production agency founded by leading YouTuber and entrepreneur Brandon Baum, has appointed Olly Lewis as Head of Agency and Senior Vice President. Olly will lead StudioB’s rapidly growing advertising business, marking a significant milestone as the company aims to build on its explosive commercial growth. StudioB partners with some of […]
Locality, the US local TV advertising platform connecting brands to local audiences across broadcast and streaming, has announced the acquisition of Deben, a media planning software company focused on cross-channel planning and optimization. The acquisition adds advanced planning and optimisation technology that strengthens data-driven broadcast media buying and expands how audience reach is evaluated and […]