Imagine Communications, which helps broadcasters and content owners monetise TV, has entered into an agreement with Sky Media, the advertising sales arm of Sky, to transform the way that multiplatform media advertising is bought and sold. In a collaborative five-stage project, Imagine will work with Sky Media to evolve its existing, on-premises Landmark Sales application […]
At the end of December 2020, there were 390 TV channels, owned by 114 broadcasting groups, that could be received in Italy via the main distribution platforms. The report, published by Confindustria TV, considered all channels distributed on the national DTT multiplexes, the subscription-based satellite platform Sky Italia and FTA DTH service TivùSat. The figures […]
Sky has announced the eight-episode limited series The Flight Attendant will air from March 19th on Sky One and NOW TV. The series tells the story of a flight attendant (series star and executive producer Kaley Cuoco) who wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man – and no […]
Already hard hit by Covid-19, cord-cutting and underlying pressures on TV advertising, sports’ tough time isn’t over yet, according to analysis by Ampere Analysis:
Her rise was a global phenomenon. Her downfall was a cruel national sport. People close to Britney Spears and lawyers tied to her conservatorship now reassess her career as she battles her father in court over who should control her life. Since airing on Hulu, the Framing Britney Spears documentary has already sparked conversation around […]
The Premier League, Serie A and La Liga should come to market for their domestic media rights in 2021. The tender results for the Premier League, always considered as a gauge of the sports broadcasting market dynamics, will be even more closely scrutinised this year, at a time of a global pandemic, reports market research […]
Italy’s Serie A has turned down Spanish group Mediapro’s bid for the football TV rights to the Italian League for the 2021-2024 period. With Eurosport also excluded, Sky and DAZN are the main remaining bidders. Sky has offered €750 million for the whole rights, whereas DAZN has submitted the highest bid for around €840 million […]
Sky has boarded filmmaker Alba Sotorra Clua’s feature documentary The Return: Life After ISIS ahead of its premiere in competition at the upcoming SXSW Film Festival. The Sky Original documentary has been commissioned for Sky Documentaries by Zai Bennett, Managing Director of Content, Poppy Dixon, Director, Documentaries and Factual, and Jack Oliver, Head of Co-Productions. […]
A TV shopping channel is giving SMEs a potential ‘financial lifeline’ by offering businesses a way of advertising its products on Sky TV for as little as £10 per day during the current UK lockdown. TV Warehouse, founded in 2012, which is also available on Freeview, has an advertising reach of 23 million households and […]
Sky and XYZ Films, in association with BuzzFeed Studios, have announced the start of production in March for Book of Love, which will be a Sky Original in all Sky markets. Starring Sam Claflin (Peaky Blinders, Enola Holmes) and Veronica Echegui (Fortitude), the romantic comedy about two writers thrown together on a book tour in […]