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US to boost satellite communications budget

US President Joe Biden, in his plans for next year, shows a potential increase in the US space budget for defence and satellite communications. While the overall budget grows by 2 per cent, the amount suggested for the US Space Force is upped by 26 per cent. A report from investment bank Exane/BNPP says that […]

March 30, 2022

FreeWheel launches audience-based TV buying tech

FreeWheel announced that it is bringing new self-service capabilities to TV buyers that enable unified audience-based planning on premium Connected TV (CTV) inventory, with deduplicated reach in relation to linear TV. This new technology also allows advertisers to build and create custom audience segments and activate CTV campaigns with streamlined access to FreeWheel’s premium publisher […]

March 30, 2022

Blu Digital appoints Epure as VP of Content Globalisation

Blu Digital Group, a media & entertainment technology company, has appointed Silviu Epure as Vice President of Content Globalisation of Blu’s current localization division. He will be tasked with leading the growing division that supplies dubbing, subtitling, and accessibility services to leading content distributors and platforms around the world. Epure joins Blu Digital with over […]

March 30, 2022

Cadent Aperture Viewer Graph continues to scale

Cadent, the independent platform for advanced TV advertising, has announced that Aperture Viewer Graph, its patented technology for bridging connected devices and households, continued to grow its coverage during Q1 2022. Purpose-built for the dynamic world of TV advertising, Aperture Viewer Graph supports precision audience targeting, deep audience insights, and transparent measurement and attribution solutions.  […]

March 30, 2022

iQIYI launches on Roku in US

iQIYI, an online entertainment service in China, has announced that its IQIYI channel is now available on Roku devices in Canada and the US. iQIYI’s current overseas subscribers will now be able to enjoy iQIYI content through their Roku devices by simply logging on to the iQIYI channel on their Roku device. iQIYI International service […]

March 29, 2022

WrestleMania 38 to air in Dave & Buster’s across the US

WWE has announced a new partnership with Joe Hand Promotions that will bring all of WWE’s Premium Live Events to Dave & Buster’s locations nationwide beginning with WrestleMania 38 on April 2nd April 3rd from AT&T Stadium in Dallas. “Dave & Buster’s is a staple of fun and entertainment in the United States and that […]

March 28, 2022

US Soccer Foundation names Telemundo as Spanish-language media partner

The US Soccer Foundation has named NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises as the organisation’s first official and exclusive Spanish-language media partner. Through this partnership, Telemundo joins the Foundation in its efforts to advance soccer as a means for helping children in underserved communities reach their full potential, including supporting the Foundation’s signature Soccer for Success youth programme, […]

March 24, 2022

Avid Learning Academy partners with ThinkEDU

Avid has announced a partnership with North American academic marketing company ThinkEDU that will provide even more K-12 educators with the opportunity to inspire future generations of video and audio creators. ThinkEDU will work with existing Avid partner Rowman & Littlefield to help high schools across North America enhance their arts and media education tracks […]

March 24, 2022

Kymeta signs OneWeb agreement

Kymeta, a flat panel antenna company, and OneWeb ahve announced a distribution partner agreement to offer broadband connectivity services across the globe. The OneWeb LEO satellite network will give Kymeta customers access to high-speed, low-latency broadband connectivity while on the move or while stationary, anywhere in the world. Kymeta offers a high-bandwidth, low power, fully […]

March 23, 2022

Starlink at 250,000 subs; ups price

A panel session at the Satellite 2022 show heard Jonathan Hofeller, VP of Starlink commercial sales at SpaceX, say that whilst Starlink is best known for its consumer broadband service, it was also working to provide services for enterprises and other sectors. He also stated that Starlink currently has 250,000 subscribers around the world. Hofeller […]

March 23, 2022By Chris Forrester