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Year2017
Net Insight teams up with Ericsson
Media transport and scheduling specialist Net Insight has struck a strategic partnership with Ericsson to…
Harmonic adds capabilities to VOS Cloud
Video technology provider Harmonic has added new media management and scheduling capabilities to its VOS…
Global pay TV revenue growth slows significantly
Global pay TV revenue growth slowed significantly last year, with North American revenues peaking in…
Modern Times Group names new Viaplay chief
Modern Times Group (MTG) has named Ira Gladnikoff as head of its subscription video-on-demand service…
Sky Italia secures Champions League rights as Mediaset mulls options
Sky Italia has secured the exclusive rights to European Champions League and Europa League football…
Sony bosses to lead Apple programming push
Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg are joining technology giant Apple to lead its push…
Altice names new marketing chief
Cable and telecoms group Altice has named Nicolas Petit as its new group chief marketing…
Proximus hires Canal+ marketing chief
Belgian service provider Proximus has named Guillaume Boutin as chief consumer market officer and a…
Story Lab parent buys into Gleam Futures
The Story Lab parent Dentsu Aegis Network has bought into UK-based digital talent management firm…
SES suffers anomaly on AMC-9 satellite
Satellite operator SES has started transferring capacity from its AMC-9 satellite following what it described…
Axing takes majority control of DEV Systemtechnik
German cable and satellite equipment provider Axing has taken majority control of technology outfit DEV…
Vodafone Ghana teams up with Showmax
Vodafone Ghana has teamed up with Naspers-owned subscription video-on-demand service Showmax to provide content for…
Futuresource: smart TVs the top way to tune into Netflix
Viewing Netflix via smart TVs is the favourite way for customers to access content from the…
OTT data firm Conviva raises US$40m in funding
Conviva, a data intelligence firm that works with clients like Sky, HBO and Turner, has…
Rakuten-owned Viki names new CEO
Rakuten-owned streaming service Viki has upped its senior vice-president of partnerships and programming, Joanne Waage,…
Antenna Group agrees Viceland distribution deal
Antenna Group has signed a deal with Vice Media to become the exclusive distributor of…
Awesomeness TV partners with Viaplay for Nordic launch
Awesomeness TV’s series will launch in the Nordic market for the first time following a…
Scripps creates talent incubator
Scripps Networks Interactive has created a talent incubation unit within its social and digital production…
Sony Pictures Television co-presidents out
Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht are leaving their roles as co-presidents of Sony Pictures…
Dataxis: 22% of TVs sold in Europe last year were 4K
Sales of 4K TVs represented 22% of the overall European TV market in 2016, up…
Viacom creates advanced advertising group
Viacom has created an Advanced Advertising group to lead product innovation and advanced analytics across…
TiVo: 93% of North American pay TV subscribers use SVOD
Some 93% of pay TV subscribers in North America also use one of more subscription…
Sky and Virgin Media strike targeted ad partnership
Sky and Virgin Media have struck a deal to let businesses offer targeted ads across both…
European court of justice rules against Pirate Bay
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that sites like The Pirate…
Ericsson’s Simon Frost joins AWS Elemental
AWS Elemental has appointed former Ericsson executive Simon Frost as head of marketing and business…
Endemol Shine closes US digital studio
Endemol Shine North America has closed digital video studio Endemol Beyond USA. This will see…
EBU calls for protection of PSB in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The collapse of public service broadcasting in Bosnia and Herzegovina would be “completely unacceptable,” attendees at…
TDG: two thirds of US web users watch SVOD on TVs
Roughly two thirds of US adult broadband users now take online subscription video-on-demand services on…
A+E Networks launches Blaze on Virgin TV
A+E Networks UK has today launched entertainment channel, Blaze, on Virgin TV in the UK and Ireland on…
Ooyala: mobile now accounts for 57% of all video plays
Mobile viewing accounted for nearly 57% of all video plays worldwide in Q1 2017 marking…