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Poland: OTT culture platform awarded to Redge Media

Theatre performances, concerts, exhibitions, workshops – all online and in one place. The Łódzkie Voivodeship in Poland is to create the OTT video platform common for its cultural units. This is to enable the inhabitants of Łódź to have broad access to culture, which is of particular importance in times of a pandemic and limitations […]

December 7, 2021

Progressive Generation launching PG Kids with Red Bee

PG Kids is a new subscription based streaming service for children’s content in the Middle East and North Africa, launched by Jordan based Progressive Generation Studios through Red Bee Media’s Managed OTT Services. The new venture aims to become a unique destination for educational and entertaining content for children in the region. PG Kids launches […]

December 7, 2021

Insys Video implements OTT platform for Olympique Lyon

Olympique Lyonnais (OL), one of the most successful football clubs in France from the Ligue 1 UberEats football division, has launched a new version of its OTT streaming service, OLPLAY. OLPLAY includes access to the 24/7 live channel with an EPG and a premium VoD library. The interface has undergone a complete graphical overhaul to […]

December 7, 2021

NASCAR, FloSports streaming deal

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 […]

December 6, 2021

New RuPaul’s Drag Race exclusively on WOW in UK

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 […]

December 3, 2021By Nik Roseveare

MediaKind, Arqiva cloud migration partnership

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 […]

December 2, 2021

Report: Is SVoD undermining MENA pay-TV market value?

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 […]

December 1, 2021

Indonesia: SPI/FilmBox’s Dizi on Transvision

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 […]

December 1, 2021

Unruly launches content-level targeting solution

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 […]

December 1, 2021

Turbidite and AsiaSat announce partnership

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 […]

December 1, 2021