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NBCU, Sky name ad leadership team

NBCUniversal and Sky have named the leadership team for the companies’ new One Platform Global Advertising & Partnerships offering. Newly-named President & Managing Director of Global Advertising & Partnerships KC Sullivan will lead the unified Global Advertising & Partnerships Team, and bring this offering to market. Sullivan, who most recently served as President & Managing […]

June 18, 2020

Moonbug launches channel on Sky Kids

Moonbug, a global entertainment company that develops and distributes values-based content for kids, has launched the Moonbug channel on Sky Kids. Families in the UK and Ireland with Sky can now access Moonbug’s kids’ content, ad-free, through the new VoD channel, including global sensation Little Baby Bum, Go Buster, Playtime with Twinkle, Digley and Dazey, […]

June 16, 2020

All Sky Originals now carbon neutral in UK

Sky has published its annual social and environmental impact report highlighting the progress it has made in 2019 and setting out its ‘Bigger Picture’ ambitions for 2020 and beyond. The publication of the report comes as Sky announces a commitment toward its ambition to be net zero carbon by 2030, with all its Sky Originals […]

June 16, 2020

Golding named NOW TV Director of Strategy

NOW TV has announced that Michelle Golding will be joining the Sky-operated streaming service immediately as Director of Strategy and Propositions. Covering Louisa Taylor’s maternity leave, Golding will report into Marina Storti, Managing Director of NOW TV, and will be responsible for managing the customer proposition and business strategy strands of the OTT business. Storti […]

June 15, 2020

Sky: Additional £1.5m support for SMEs to use AdSmart

Due to what Sky Media describes as “overwhelming interest” in its AdSmart SME Support Scheme, it has announced it will provide an additional 150 businesses with targeted TV advertising support. The initial SME100 campaign now becomes SME250 as Sky Media invests a total of £2.5 million into the fund, bringing the total number of small […]

June 10, 2020

Superfilm & Sky Studios resume shooting for Ich und die Anderen in Austria

Sky Original, Ich und die Anderen, (‘Me and the Others in English’) resumed production in Austria this week, after suspending shooting due to COVID-19 in mid-March. The restart in Vienna, under strict COVID-19-safe guidelines as set out in Austrian regulations, marks the first Sky Original and Sky Studios show to return to production. Only five […]

June 10, 2020

Comcast commits $100m ‘to diversity’  

Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts has written to all staff outlinging a plan to invest $100 million over the next three years to combat racism and advance social justice and equality. Roberts said Comcast EVP and chief diversity officer Craig Robinson will be spearheading the efforts along with himself, and will coordinate with executives […]

June 9, 2020

Sky releases trailer for Lovecraft Country

Sky has released the exclusive teaser trailer for Lovecraft Country. The one-hour drama series based on the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff, follows Atticus Freeman as he joins his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father. What follows is […]

June 9, 2020

Sky commits £30m to support the fight against racial injustice

Sky has announced a series of commitments to help tackle racial injustice. To ensure the commitments are delivered, Sky will invest £10million per year across its markets for each of the next three years, and its work will be overseen, implemented and measured by new diversity action and advisory groups. Sky’s commitments to support anti-racism […]

June 9, 2020

Sky unveils Premier League viewing innovations

To mark the return of the Premier League next week, Sky Sports will launch a series of innovations and features to give fans a more immersive experience and the opportunity to share the big moments live with family and friends on virtual platforms. With an additional 25 matches to be screened ‘free to air’ on […]

June 8, 2020