NASCAR and US sports streaming service, FloSports, have announced a multi-year partnership that will make FloRacing, FloSports’ dedicated motorsports platform, the home of NASCAR Roots properties including: the ARCA Menards Series, NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, NASCAR Pinty’s Series, and NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series. The partnership will also deliver investment in grassroots racing, including […]
The 14th season of RuPaul’s Drag Race is coming in January 2022, and, for the first time, the series will stream exclusively on World of Wonder’s own streaming platform, WOW Presents Plus, in the UK. Premiering on January 7th 2022 in the US (and 4am on January 8th in the UK) the latest season of […]
Media technology and services specialist MediaKind and broadcast and utilities services provider Arqiva have formed what they describe as a “pioneering” partnership to introduce a media service proposition that will address the core challenges that broadcasters and operators face in migrating broadcast and streaming services to the cloud. The new strategic partnership will deliver a […]
In advanced TV markets, OTT developments have initially entailed revenue losses for operators who had been counting on high pay-TV penetrations for years, often associated with a preponderance of expensive cable offers, as is the case in North America, reports Dataxis. In MENA, the TV market follows an opposite model, characterised by the predominance of […]
SPI/FilmBox’s drama brand Dizi, which offers a slate of popular Turkish series, is now traveling to Indonesia through a new distribution agreement with Transvision, one of the leading telecommunications providers in the country. Dizi will be available on all of Transvision’s linear pay-TV services via DTH, IPTV, Smart TV, cable, and OTT, including the XStream […]
Unruly, a global video and Connected TV (CTV) programmatic advertising platform, has announced the introduction of its content-level targeting solution that segments inventory based on publisher bidstream attributes that mirror linear TV buys, such as genre and rating. The solution brings standardisation to the programmatic Over-the-Top TV (OTT) and CTV ecosystem, and will serve publishers […]
Turbidite Limited, Asia’s newest edge data centre platform and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), the region’s premier satellite solutions provider, have announced a partnership that will leverage AsiaSat’s existing satellite and ground infrastructure with Turbidite’s dynamic edge data center platform to support the accelerated demand for digital services. “We are delighted to enter into […]
Alchimie, the OTT video subscription platform, has announced the appointment of Sam Thompson to the role of Chief Content Officer. In his new role, Thompson will be responsible for acquiring English, Spanish, French, German and Italian programming across all genres to add to Alchimie’s library of multi-language content. Alchimie’s library is one of the largest […]
Verimatrix, a specialist in powering the modern connected world with people-centered security, has announced the launch of its new Verimatrix Streamkeeper solution, a cybersecurity and anti-piracy solution that it describes as a “gamechanger” for the media & entertainment industry. Streamkeeper empowers customers to hunt down and take out OTT pirates who steal content such as […]
South Africa’s public broadcaster, SABC, has issued a Request for Proposals (RfP) from potential suppliers of a streaming service that forms a key part of the broadcaster’s future strategy. The 73-page RfP is designed to build on data and suggestions received a year ago from potential streaming technology suppliers. Currently SABC leaves its content to […]