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Indycar renews global broadcast reach

A robust line-up of international broadcast partnerships will help deliver the NTT Indycar Series to a growing global audience in 2021. A series of renewals and expanded broadcast and streaming relationships will bring the stars of North America’s premier open-wheel racing series to many markets across Europe, Asia and more. Existing and renewal partnerships will […]

April 7, 2021By Colin Mann

Sky Creative delivers new programme identity and virtual studio for The Daily Climate Show

Sky Creative’s dedicated News Design team, which works directly with the Sky News broadcast and editorial teams across design and innovation, has delivered the final output for The Daily Climate Show. As Sky’s in-house advertising and creative agency and the largest in-house agency in Europe, Sky Creative has been responsible for delivering a brand new […]

April 7, 2021

Free TV ad worth £5k up for grabs on TV Warehouse

TV Warehouse, an independent London teleshopping channel is offering small businesses with a unique product innovation the chance to sell their products for free in a TV advert worth up to £5,000 on Sky TV as part of its ‘Road to Recovery’ campaign. TV Warehouse has put its weight behind supporting SMEs that have suffered […]

April 7, 2021

UK ministers welcome broadband jobs boom

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden have met with broadband industry leaders and praised the sector for creating more than 22,000 jobs over the last year as forecasts for gigabit rollout are revised further upwards. They welcomed the firms’ work to help the nation build back better from the pandemic with […]

April 6, 2021By Colin Mann

Data: 954,000 watch Snyder’s Justice League on Sky

Samba TV reports that 954,000 UK households watched the colour version of Zack Snyder’s Justice League cut between March 18th and 24th on Sky Cinema Premiere. Almost half (48 per cent) of the UK households actually finished the movie during the first seven days, yet the average number of minutes of the movie watched per […]

April 1, 2021

Sky Q adds new voice search innovations

Sky is rolling out a raft of new features and voice innovations on its Sky Q platform. Over the next month, movies and series from Disney+, will begin to appear in broader voice and text searches on Sky Q. Users can search for Disney+ exclusives, such as Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier and […]

March 31, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Pay-TV, RIP?

In this new edition of Euromedia we asked if pay-TV was on its deathbed. A trifle morbid perhaps, especially in a pandemic, but it seemed important. Certainly, pay-TV in some markets – the Americas in particular – is in decline, and the absence of some live sports events has not helped. Broadly speaking, contributors think […]

March 30, 2021

Sky launches £2m Sky Zero Footprint Fund

As part of its commitment to reducing its impact on the environment, and inspiring others to do the same, Sky is launching the ‘Sky Zero Footprint Fund’. Established by Sky as part of its Sky Zero campaign to be net zero carbon by 2030, the new £2 million initiative will support brands that are committed […]

March 30, 2021

Sky and Creative Access launch TV placements for under-represented groups

Sky, Europe’s leading media and entertainment company, has partnered with Creative Access to provide under-represented groups placements in the media industry. 18 placements will be available across Sky News, Sky Sports, UK Content and Sky Studios. The collaboration will provide talented TV aspirants who are Black, Asian or from a minority ethnic background, disabled or […]

March 30, 2021

Italy: DAZN scores Serie A rights

Sports streaming platform DAZN has acquired the rights to broadcast all of Serie A including seven out of 10 exclusive matches per match-week in Italy from 2021 to 2024 – and becomes the new primary broadcaster of the competition. It is paying a reported €840 million a season for the deal, replacing Sky, which offered […]

March 29, 2021By Colin Mann