Netflix has upped its spend on UK productions to £750m ($1bn) this year as the company works to maintain its pipeline of shows despite the disruption caused by Covid-19. The streaming giant makes original shows including The Crown and The Witcher in the UK and has increased its budget by 50% on from the £500m […]
MTV Play has launched on Amazon Prime Video Channels in the UK. The ViacomCBS Networks UK-operated SVOD service will be available to Prime subscribers at an additional cost of £3.99 per month. It offers access to over 1,000 hours of MTV content via the Prime Video App, including shows like Catfish and Geordie Shore along […]
Italian football top flight league Serie A has excluded the MENA region from the launch of its 2021/22-23/24 broadcast rights tender. The league has launched the rights tender for 57 international territories, including 52 country-specific contracts, four continental tranches and one global offer. In addition, the body has launched mirrored packages for the Coppa Italia […]
League of Legends maker Riot Games has announced the first official esports tournament for its fledgling title Valorant. Announcing the launch of The Champions Tour, Riot’s senior director of esports Whalen ‘Magus’ Rozelle said that the series will “launch Valorant into a global esport” and that there will be an expanded competition calendar spread across […]
ViacomCBS is reportedly close to the sale of its Simon & Schuster book publishing business in a deal valued at over US$2 billion. According to sources cited by Bloomberg, German media business Bertelsmann has agreed to pay US$2.1 billion for the publisher, with an announcement potentially to be made this week. The sources noted that […]
Informa Tech, along with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Singapore Tourism Board (STB), has signed a Memorandum of Intent (MOI) to launch a new flagship event for Asia in 2021. Taking place in H2 2021, the first edition will be a hybrid event bringing together Government, businesses in the infocomm, media and tech […]
Hamburg-based white-labelled turnkey smart TV and OTT ecosystem provider NetRange has announced the launch of its cloud-powered VISNOS platform. Standing for Virtual Smart TV NetRange OS, the platform promises to cut CE device manufacturers’ Smart TV costs and add CTV capabilities to existing low-powered TVs. A way that the VISNOS achieves cost-cutting is by removing […]
Users of smart speakers, like Amazon’s Echo or Google’s Nest ranges, are increasingly switching to smart displays. According to Strategy Analytics, the share of all smart speaker sales incorporating a display was 26% in Q3 2020, compared to 22% a year earlier. Smart displays sales in Q3 rose year-on-year by 21% to 9.5 million units, […]
Samsung’s media and advertising business Samsung Ads Europe has opened up access to its premium video inventory. Available via their preferred DSP, Advertisers in ‘EU5’ (UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy) will have programmatic access to exclusive Samsungconnected TV (CTV) inventory on Samsung’s premium AVOD service, Samsung TV Plus. Advertisers will also have access to […]
Ligue 1 operator Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) are reportedly mulling a return to Canal+ as its relationship with Mediapro teeters on collapse. According to RMC Sport, LFP could turn to Canal+, which previously held the rights up until last season should Mediapro continue to refuse to pay. Mediapro did not pay the second installment […]
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