International distributor, Bomanbridge Media, has secured a multi-year partnership with Doclights, a German producer of natural history films, to take over their wildlife catalogue alongside new and upcoming productions. The agreement, cash valued at over $1 million, will see Bomanbridge take over the distribution of DocLights’ wildlife and factual content which totals close to 200 […]
Sandbox Group, a specialist in learning-focused entertainment, has announced a new partnership with Safaricom, Kenya’s largest telecommunications provider, to bring its PlayKids+app to millions of Kenyan families. This launch marks Sandbox Group’s African debut and the first step in a broader regional expansion across Sub-Saharan Africa. The PlayKids+ app offers thousands of games, videos, and […]
The Masai Mara is returning to WildEarth. From September 2nd, WildEarth will be broadcasting a Mara feed into the SafariLIVE Sunset and Sunrise shows. Then, from October 1st, this will expand this to two feeds with a new show called MaraLIVE offering an exclusive hour of Mara content after the sunrise safari and before the […]
Kenya’s largest telco Safaricom is urging the government to bar SpaceX’s Starlink from operating over the country, or at least to require the Elon Musk–owned business to take on a local partner. Safaricom’s letter to the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) said: “Satellite coverage inherently spans multiple territorial borders and in doing so has the […]
To measure people’s awareness of their phone use, gaming site Solitaired recently surveyed 667 iPhone users, asking them to guess how much time they spend on their phones, then had them send documentation of their actual usage data, courtesy of their iOS Screen Time dashboards. On average, respondents guessed they spend 25 hours and 54 […]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a market study into Apple’s and Google’s mobile ecosystems over concerns they have market power which is harming users and other businesses. It is taking a closer look at whether the firms’ effective duopoly over the supply of operating systems (iOS and Android), app stores (App […]