According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, global smartphone shipments increased 6.5 per cent year over year to 285.4 million units in the second quarter of 2024 (2Q24). Although this marks the fourth consecutive quarter of shipment growth and builds the momentum towards the expected recovery this year, […]
A union representing workers at tech giant Samsung Electronics has called on its roughly 30,000 members to go on strike indefinitely, as part of its campaign for better pay and benefits. The announcement came on the last day of a three-day general strike being held by the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), which said it […]
Bitcentral, a provider of professional media solutions for broadcast and digital video, has announced that its ViewNexa streaming platform is now available on Samsung TV Plus, the connected TV service owned by Samsung Electronics. With Samsung TV Plus enjoying a 60 per cent year-over-year increase in worldwide viewership, the platform allows ViewNexa customers to provide […]
Samsung Electronics expects profits for Q2 2024 to jump 15-fold compared to the same period last year, attributed largely to the AI boom which has transformed the prices of advanced chips. The South Korean firm is the world’s largest maker of memory chips, smartphones and televisions. The news pushed Samsung shares up more than 2 […]
Amuse Animation, a digital-first animation studio, has announced the launch of Car City Adventures, a fully localised 24/7 linear FAST channel on Samsung TV Plus. Now available in eight languages across ten countries, Amuse partnered with Xumo Enterprise, the business-to-business arm of Xumo that provides FAST solutions to the industry, on the development, creation, and […]
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has announced a new sponsorship agreement with Samsung, a Worldwide Olympic and Paralympic Partner. Home of the Olympics in Europe, WBD will harness two of its sports brands – Eurosport and Bleacher Report – to further elevate its sports storytelling while connecting Samsung with Olympic culture and fan-first moments through its […]
Samsung Ads Europe, the advertising division of Samsung Electronics, has announced the launch of its new machine-learning advertising solution for clients, Smart Outcomes, allowing advertisers to automatically optimise CTV campaigns and leverage the largest single-source, deterministic TV data set in the European market. Powered by data from more than 60 million Samsung Smart TVs in […]
Samsung is expanding its investment in the Samsung TV Plus service with all-new premium programming partnerships. Content creators and partners alike recognise the incredible value in Samsung TV Plus. In fact, viewership of the service grew over 60 per cent year-over-year in Canada. “Samsung strives to deliver quality entertainment that resonates with consumers. New content […]
The yallo TV app is now available on Samsung TV models from 2020 or later (Tizen 5.5) for viewers in Switzerland, and will come preinstalled on new TVs. The app for Samsung TV complements yallo TV’s existing ‘big-screen’ offering for Android TV and Apple TV. As on all other devices, the yallo TV app for […]
Samsung Ads, the advertising arm of Samsung Electronics’ media division, has announced the scaling of its Insights Planner tool to all of its UK clients and advertisers, providing CTV insights to help plan future total TV campaigns. Samsung’s Insights Planner is powered by Samsung’s proprietary first party and ACR data, as well as additional data […]