Despite the the new Serie A season kicking off this weekend, the TV and streaming rights for the Italian football league remain unsold – at least officially – across all Nordic countries. Whoever picks up the right to distribute the Italian top league will have a solid fan base of around a million interested viewers […]
Chyron has announced the appointment of Adam Bowley as Regional Sales Director for the UK and Nordics. Bowley comes to Chyron with over 23 years of experience in the industry, having worked across various roles in sports broadcasting, motion graphics, and strategic management. His background includes time spent as a graphics operator and designer at […]
For Nordic founders, London Tech Week (June 10th – 14th) may end up shaping the futures of their businesses. For visitors from the Nordics and Baltics, London is also special because it’s where Tech Nordic Advocates – Northern Europe’s largest – and only pan-Nordic/Baltic tech startup ecosystem originated. The first non-UK sibling of Tech London […]
Viaplay Group has secured the exclusive rights to football from the men’s UEFA Champions League in Sweden and Denmark, exclusive rights to the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League in Norway and Finland, and shared rights to the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League in Iceland up to and including […]
Piracy has been a challenge for the Nordic media market for many years. Despite efforts to limit piracy, illegal consumption of films, series and live sports is growing in most Nordic markets, according to data from Mediavision. Currently, 25 per cent of all 15-74-year-olds in the Nordics say they have downloaded or illegally streamed content […]
Password sharing is a topic that has received a lot of attention in the past year. Also in the Nordics, SVoD services have communicated their intentions to restrict password sharing, reports Mediavision. Simply put, their desire is to get paid for all users that consume content on their platform and, as the market matures, the […]
Viaplay Group has renewed its rights to show Formula 1 in the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland up to and including the 2029 season. Motorsport fans in all six countries can continue to follow every second of action live on Viaplay Group’s platforms, together with local-language commentators and expert analysts, exclusive documentaries headlined […]
BBC Studios has announced that its enhanced linear channel, BBC Nordic, has achieved 1 per cent audience share and grown its ratings by 86 per cent over the past six months following its launch on April 17th 2023. BBC Nordic, which has been the number one channel in its competitive set three months in a […]
Agile Content, the Spanish publicly listed company and provider of streaming and internet TV solutions, has announced an agreement with Ålcom, a mobile and network operator based in the Åland Islands which provides converged mobile, broadband IPTV, CATV and ICT services to over 210.000 broadband customers across Finland. The alliance will provide scalable high quality […]
Nordic online video viewers’ demand for local content grew in autumn 2023 compared to the same period in 2022 reports Mediavision. Local fiction and entertainment now accounts for 25 per cent of all online viewing on curated on demand content. This excludes live sports, news and social media content. However, the available streaming supply of […]