Apple TV+ has unveiled the teaser trailer and premiere date for “WeCrashed,” anew limited series from Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello, based on the hit Wondery podcast “WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork” and starring Academy Award and SAG Award winners Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway. The limited series also stars Kyle Marvin, alongside […]
Law&Crime, the 24/7 true crime and live trial network, has renewed Caught in Providence from Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury for a second primetime season.Appearing on the network since November 2020, the series brings viewers to Providence Municipal Court in Rhode Island, where social phenom, Chief Judge Frank Caprio, delivers everyday justice with heart and humor.Hearing real cases from […]
Netflix has unveiled its first LGBTQ+ podcast – The Gay Agenda, produced by MOST, the home of LGBTQ+ storytelling. The new podcast aims to take an entertaining and honest look into the lives of LGBTQ+ creatives at the top of their fields across different industries and celebrates their success stories. The Gay Agenda will launch […]
In 2021 (January to November) there have been 1.3 billion plays of radio, music and podcast on BBC Sounds, an increase of 8 per cent over a similar period in 2020, as listeners enjoy more brilliant BBC audio on their devices. The latest figures from the BBC also show there were 558 million plays of […]
BBC Sounds has launched in the Sonos app. Listeners with Sonos speakers in the UK will now be able to discover and listen tp BBC radio, music mixes and podcasts using the Sonos app for smartphones and tablets. BBC Sounds already has an average weekly audience of 3.6 million across mobile, TV, website and voice […]
Digital budgets have grown strongly following Covid-19 disruption and marketer enthusiasm for online channels shows no sign of slowing, according to a WARC survey of more than 1,500 practitioners. Online video and social media lead the pack, with 77 per cent and 68 per cent of marketers, respectively, expecting to increase their investment in 2022. […]
Blackmagic Design has announced that international entertainment portal WhatCulture has equipped five new studios with a streaming and web broadcast workflow based on the Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K Pro and ATEM Mini Extreme ISO. Reaching more than seven million subscribers a month, the media production company’s workflow also uses the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pros […]
TV drama producer Kudos has led a Banijay-group investment into the podcast space, by acquiring a 25 per cent stake in growing indie What’s the Story? Sounds. What’s the Story? is led by ex-TV producers Darrell Brown and Sophie Ellis. Its catalogue includes Body Of Proof, The Missing, and Emily Atack: Lie Detector. The deal […]
WARC analysis of advertising spending forecasts for 100 markets worldwide, and the results of a survey by GWI of more than 715,000 consumers, show that advertiser spend on TV and social media is highly inflated in relation to daily consumption. These findings are by WARC, the international marketing intelligence service, as part of its new […]
Digital Audio (streaming radio and podcasts) currently represents a limited market in Latin America. In 2020, it generated only $25 million (€21.4m) in advertising; a figure that, comparatively, was equivalent to 5 per cent of the total income of traditional radio stations. However, a wide range of regional media types have started to embrace digital […]