Extreme E, the pioneering electric SUV racing series, has announced that its magazine programme – Climate Changers – has been selected by acclaimed airline, Etihad Airways, for its inflight entertainment (IFE) service, E-Box. The airline’s E-Box service provides guests with hundreds of hours of on-demand video and audio content via touch screen technology. The wireless […]
The UK government is considering how better to level the regulatory playing field between mainstream VoD services and traditional broadcasters and is seeking views on the matter in a consultation. This could mean aligning the content standards rules for on-demand TV services with those for traditional linear TV such as BBC 1 and Sky. Now […]
Channel 4 has confirmed the launch of All 4 Private Marketplace, a new advertising initiative that enables brands to buy digital advertising space around All 4’s 14,500 hours of content via private programmatic auction. Channel 4 says it is the first UK broadcaster to make its inventory available through automated real-time bidding – a method […]
As streaming services seek to create content which has international appeal, research from Kantar has compared UK adults’ genre preferences against global audiences. Among the findings uncovered: Brits enjoy being kept on the edge of their seats, citing drama as their TV genre of interest, much more than the global average (55 per cent vs […]
Starting August 27th, Disney+ subscribers will be able to enjoy the movie event that kicked off the summer, Disney’s “Cruella.” All the fun, fashion and edge served up by Academy Award winners Emma Stone and Emma Thompson will be available for streaming again and again, exclusively on Disney+. Academy Award winner Emma Stone (“La La […]
Real Madrid TV, the DTT channel owned by La Liga football team Real Madrid, is set to become an OTT platform that offers VoD and live streaming content. The company aims to get up to €8 million from European funds under the España Hub Audiovisual plan to turn the channel into an OTT service branded […]
Streann Media, the interactive OTT streaming platform, and Blackbird, cloud native video editing and publishing platform, have joined forces to bring content providers a more efficient way to produce live events remotely. “Remote production is booming, and we are thrilled to join forces with Blackbird, as this partnership will bring clients the state-of-the-art live streaming […]
SPI/FilmBox’s streaming service FilmBox+ rolled-out in February 2021 and since then has integrated with 10 major European operators making its entertainment accessible to over 1 million subscribers globally. SPI says it is committed to achieving full integration of the FilmBox+ service with the platforms of their 700+ operator partners around the globe. FilmBox+ offers hundreds […]
As more Americans are approaching what their lives looked like before Covid, their attitudes are beginning to return to normal. However, Hub Entertainment Research’s newest wave of Predicting the Pandemic study shows there’s evidence that many changes in behaviour – including some of those most disruptive to the entertainment industry – are here to stay. […]
In the days, not so long ago, when terrestrial television was pretty much the only game in town, technology limited us to just a handful of channels. That was eased by the first cable systems which could deliver a few more, but in many territories, cable was available to only a small part of the […]