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Synamedia Hires New VP & CFO

Synamedia has boosted its senior team with the appointment of Scott Kewley as VP Advanced Advertising and Data Products. Kewley will lead Synamedia’s addressable advertising and data monetization business, building on the firm’s heritage as an industry pioneer through its collaboration with Sky on the development of the ...

How Quickly Could BritBox Grow?

In all of my conversations with industry people this year - at conferences, networking events and private meetings - I've yet to find anyone who thinks much of Britbox's long-term prospects. At best, any enquiry is met with a resigned shrug.  Is Britbox, the new SVOD service from ...

UK Becomes a Nation of Streamers says OFCOM

Around half of all UK homes now subscribe to TV streaming services, according to a major Ofcom report revealing rapid shifts in the nation’s viewing habits. The number of UK households signed up to the most popular streaming platforms – Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Now TV and Disney ...

ITV Doubles Number of Hub+ Subscribers

ITV has presented a mixed bag of results in its latest financial performance report, published this morning. Advertising revenues were down 5% in the first half of 2019 falling from £890m to £849m. ITV Studios revenues also declined by 6% from £803m to £758m. On the upside, however, ...

DAZN Partners with Discovery to Expand Distribution of Eurosport

DAZN, the leading global live and on-demand sports streaming service and Discovery, the global leader in powering people’s passions across all screens, have announced a new distribution partnership that will see Eurosport 1 HD and Eurosport 2 HD made available to DAZN subscribers in Austria, Germany, Italy and Spain. Eurosport, the number one sports destination in ...

Netflix Posts Q2 2019 Results – Misses Subscription Growth Target

Netflix has posted erratic results in its latest financial results statement for Q2 2019. The streaming giant had expected to grow its user base by 5 million last quarter but could only manage 2.7m new subscribers. Despite this, Netflix still increased average paid memberships by 24% YOY while ARPU ...

Bitmax Signs Content Management and Distribution Deal with High Octane Pictures

Bitmax, the digital media management and licensing company, has signed a multi-year agreement to provide content management and services to High Octane Pictures (HOP), a full-service film distribution and sales agency that cultivates relationships with distributors, financiers, talent agencies and various strategic entertainment partnerships to sell and distribute motion ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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