Manchester City FC Launches Dedicated New OTT Service
Manchester City has launched Man City for TV, a new streaming platform which is now available to download worldwide. Man City for TV is designed to provide unrivalled access to Manchester City videos before being released anywhere else. It will live stream City’s upcoming pre-season tour fixtures in ...
Amino Acquires Online Video Specialist 24i
Amino Communications, the global media and entertainment technology solutions provider, today announced that it has acquired the privately-held Amsterdam headquartered 24i, an industry leading provider of online video solutions and services. “The fast-growing 24i is a great strategic acquisition for us, moving us closer to a decisive market ...
RTL Group Creates Europe’s Leading Digital Studio for Digital Content Creators
RTL Group today announced that it will combine its digital video business in the Nordics (United Screens) with Divimove, RTL Group’s Berlin-based digital video company. The Group also plans to integrate the Dutch RTL MCN into the combined entity. The combination will make Divimove Europe’s leading digital studio ...
ThinkAnalytics Scales to over 100 million Users in the Cloud
ThinkAnalytics™ today announced that its cloud-based personalized content discovery platform is the first in the industry to scale to over 100 million monthly active users in the cloud. ThinkAnalytics’ customers rely on this ability to deal with massive scale to power personalized user experiences as they undergo rapid ...
49% of Video Ad Impressions in the US go to Connected TV
With impressions increasing nearly 60 percent year over year, connected TV (CTV) advertising now accounts for nearly half of impressions served, reveals the latest Video Benchmark Report from Extreme Reach (ER), the complete creative asset management solution for the ad industry. Based on Q1 2019 performance metrics from ...
TVSquared Releases D2C TV Advertising Performance Report
TVSquared, a leader in TV attribution, released the findings of its 2019 Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) TV Advertising Performance report. DTC brands are one of the fastest growing groups of TV advertisers, devoting $3.8 billion in media spend to it last year alone. TVSquared’s report uncovers the TV buy elements that ...
Global Pay-TV Market Losing Ground to Social Video Viewing
Released today, a new global report from Grabyo has found video audiences are watching on social media and online streaming services more often than pay-TV services in all major markets except the UK. The report surveyed over 9,600 people across the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Australia, and ...
Comscore & MediaScience Announce Strategic Partnership for Industry Thought Leadership Studies on Cross-Platform Advertising
Comscore, a trusted currency for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms, and MediaScience, a global leader in scientific, lab-based measurement of consumer interaction with media and advertising, are joining forces to provide deeper insights into how advertising works in the digital era. Through this partnership, Comscore and MediaScience will ...
Optus Sport Selects DAZN CONNECT for Live Sports Content Distribution
DAZN CONNECT, the newly launched cloud-native content distribution service from DAZN Group and Optus, the Australian telecommunications company, owned by Singtel, Asia’s leading communications group, have today announced a new content distribution partnership. The partnership sees DAZN CONNECT deliver to Optus Sport, video IP back-up feeds across its ...
IMDb TV Triples Content Selection and Plans European Expansion
IMDb, the #1 movie, TV and celebrity website in the world, announced today that IMDb TV, a free streaming video channel formerly known as IMDb Freedive, will triple its content selection, bringing thousands of new titles to the ad-supported service in the coming months. Additionally, IMDb TV will ...
Channel 4 Posts Strong 2018 Annual Results with Record Digital Viewing and Digital Revenues
C4's VOD service, All4, served 915m views over the year; digital revenues climbed 11% to £138m.
UKTV Play Arrives on Apple TV
UKTV has announced that its on demand app, UKTV Play, is now available on Apple TV where its vast catalogue of shows can be easily discovered. The service is also integrated with the all-new Apple TV app which brings together different ways to watch TV, as well as universal search and ...
Channel 4 Announces Development of Ground-breaking Ad Data Product
Today at the Channel 4 Upfronts event at London’s Roundhouse, Chief Commercial Officer, Jonathan Allan announced to 1,200 members of the advertising community the development of a new first in broadcaster VOD advertising. Codenamed “Project Agora”, this Channel 4-developed technology will enable advertisers to match their own custom ...
ProSiebenSat.1 & Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland Establish JV to Boost Addressable Advertising
Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland and ProSiebenSat.1 are entering into a groundbreaking partnership that will drive long-term growth in the addressable TV and online video advertising market in Germany. Advertisers will be able to target relevant audiences in the area of addressable TV and online video across the complete portfolio ...
BBC and BT in UK’s First Live 5G Production Trial
The BBC and BT successfully made the UK’s first live TV contribution over a public 5G connection, using EE’s 5G network. On BBC Breakfast this morning, viewers will have seen BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones cover the launch of the UK’s first 5G network from Covent Garden. But ...
China Claims 3 of the World’s Top 5 SVOD Services
The three ‘BAT’-owned SVOD services - iQIYI, Youku-Tudou and Tencent Video - dominate China’s streaming landscape
Mediaset Acquires 9.6% Stake in German Broadcaster, Prosiebensat.1
Mediaset Italy has announced the acquisition of a 9.6% stake in the German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media corresponding to up to 9.9% of the voting rights, excluding treasury stocks. Mediaset Italia and Mediaset España have have a strong relationship with ProSiebenSat.1 in the European Media Alliance (EMA) for five ...
CANAL+ Buys M7
CANAL+ Group has announced the acquisition of M7, one of the largest independent pay-TV companies in Europe operating in Benelux and Central Europe. M7 is owned by Astorg, a leading European private equity firm. This acquisition is subject to the European Commission’s approval. M7 is an aggregator and ...
TiVo Announces Plan to Separate IP Licensing and Product Businesses into Two Independent Companies
TiVo today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2019. Earlier, the Company also announced a plan to split its Product and IP Licensing businesses into two separate independent companies. “We had a solid quarter with a strong focus on company execution,” said Raghu Rau, Interim President ...
Top 10 TV Service Providers in the US lose 1.28 million subscribers in Q1 2019
The top 10 service providers in the United States collectively lost over one-and-a-quarter million television subscribers in the first quarter of 2019, as reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index. AT&T moved to the top of the table, with 22.36 million premium television subscribers in the United States, as ...
















