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Discovery appoints Australia and New Zealand boss
Discovery has appointed Rebecca Kent as general manager, Australia and New Zealand, following a nine-month stint doing the…
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BBC poaches Channel 4’s finance director
Channel 4’s group finance director, Glyn Isherwood, will swap public service broadcasters in the new…
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Vevo president and CEO Erik Huggers steps down
Erik Huggers has stepped down as the president and CEO of major label-backed music video…
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UK selects BBFC to enforce age verification of adult sites
The UK government has formally proposed that the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) be…
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FCC votes to repeal net neutrality as Netflix and web giants protest
The FCC has voted to repeal net neutrality laws in the US, in a move…
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SpotX: OTT video ad spend up 18-fold in 2017
The amount of advertising dollars spent on over-the-top (OTT) video inventory grew nearly 18-fold year-on-year…
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VR Industry Forum to publish guidelines at CES
The Virtual Reality Industry Forum (VRIF) is due to make its first set of VR…
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T-Mobile buys Layer3 TV, plans ‘disruptive new TV service’ in 2018
T-Mobile in the US has acquired TV technology company Layer3 TV and has announced plans…
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UK government appoints new Ofcom chairman
The UK government has appointed former Channel 4 chairman, Terry Burns, as the new chairman…
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Ooyala Video Index: 58% of video plays occur on mobile
More than 58% of video plays globally occurred on mobile devices in the third quarter…
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Globecast ups Sylvain Merle to COO
Globecast has upped chief technology officer (CTO) Sylvain Merle to chief operating officer (COO), replacing…
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Disney secures US$66bn Fox entertainment takeover
The Walt Disney Company has secured a US$66 billion deal that hands it most of…
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Deloitte: TV viewing among 18-24s to decline by 5-15%
Traditional TV viewing among 18-24 year-olds will decline by 5% – 15% per year in…
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Dataxis: DVB-T2 to reach 72% of European homes by 2022
By 2022 some 72% of European households will receive digital terrestrial television (DTT) using the…
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Netflix ISP Index: Austria overtakes Belgium in EMEA rankings
Austria overtook Belgium to claim the fourth-fastest average internet speeds in the Europe, Middle East…
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eMarketer: UK programmatic ad spend to reach £3.39bn this year
Programmatic digital display ad spend in the UK will reach some £3.39 billion by the…
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Euskaltel taps Nagra for 4K Android STB content security
Spanish regional cable operator Euskaltel has partnered with Nagra to secure content on its 2017-launched,…
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BBC launches Amazon Alexa voice service
The BBC has launched an Amazon Alexa skill for Echo devices – its first full…
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Ericsson: AR and VR ads to replace physical products
More than half of augmented and virtual reality users think that ads will become so…
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Report: Apple to acquire Shazam for roughly US$400m
Apple is reportedly close to acquiring Shazam in a deal that could value the music…
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France looks to extend network tax to cable and fibre
French parliamentarians have proposed extending a tax hitherto placed on copper telecom lines to cable…
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Sweden’s TV4 to record ‘highest turnover ever’ in 2017
Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 said it expects to record its “highest turnover ever” in 2017,…
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PlayStation VR reaches sales of two million
Sony has sold more than two million units of its PlayStation VR headset as of…
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Ampere: Online advertising now almost twice as valuable as TV ads
Globally online advertising now generates almost twice as much money per-viewer, per-month than TV advertising,…
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Google media strategy chief apologises to advertisers
Google’s director of global media strategy and planning, David Benson, has apologised to advertisers for…
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Ofcom makes two appointments to content board
UK regulator Ofcom has made two new appointments to its content board. The media and…
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CNC unveils changes to film support fund system
France’s Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC) has unveiled changes to the…
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Juniper: Amazon and Facebook to battle for sports rights
Amazon and Facebook will turn sports events into “the next content battleground” by bidding for…
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BT launches 360º sports highlights
BT is making 360º highlights and instant replays available from a range of sporting events…
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Syfy launches on Now TV
NBCUniversal International Networks’ science fiction channel, Syfy, is launching on Sky’s over-the-top service Now TV….