One of Wales’ biggest festivals will air live and on more S4C platforms than ever before as Tafwyl returns to Cardiff’s Bute Park from July 12th to 14th. Tafwyl is a Welsh language festival celebrating Welsh music and culture in the capital city that has long established itself as one of Wales’ most iconic events. […]
A peak of 21.6 million viewers across TV and streaming watched ITV’s coverage of England vs Netherlands on July 10th as Gareth Southgate’s team secured their place in the Euro 2024 final. This is the highest peak audience on a single channel since December 2022, when the nation watched England’s quarter-final game against France on […]
France’s TF1 group has announced an aggregation strategy by adding contents from sports media brand L’Équipe, daily newspaper Le Figaro, and music-streaming platform Deezer to its to its TF1+ free-to-view streaming platform. “These first agreements mark a step change in our digital acceleration strategy, with the aggregation of appealing third-party content that complements nicely our […]
TGI Sport, a specialist in sports technology and media rights, has announced an agreement to acquire Supponor, the live media virtual advertising company, with proprietary technologies and software that delivers virtual ads across live sports broadcasts worldwide. The deal is scheduled to close mid-summer. Since 2019, TGI Sport has been a Supponor minority shareholder, collaborating […]
The DVB Steering Board has approved the publication of an update to DVB’s Targeted Advertising specifications as well as commercial requirements for the addition of a new CDN-related functionality to DVB-I and DVB-DASH. Both documents are available from the DVB specification library as BlueBooks. DVB’s specifications for Targeted Advertising come in three parts. DVB-TA Part […]
Barb, the industry’s standard for understanding what people watch, has issued an invitation to tender (ITT) for Barb Data Hub, a new centralised system for accessing its viewing figures. As part of its strategic priorities, Barb is undergoing a change in its data distribution strategy and is planning to set up a centralised Barb Data […]
Redge Technologies, a premium end-to-end technology provider for streaming services in CEE and MENA, has won a public tender to provide a VoD platform for National Film Archive (Filmoteka Narodowa). Ninateka is a VoD service offering a wide range of cultural and educational content, including films, documentaries, animations, theatre recordings,and other audiovisual materials. The service […]
A+E Networks EMEA has announced a partnership with Europe’s Titan OS to launch five FAST channels in the UK and Ireland – Inside Crime, Mystery TV, World War TV, History Hunters and Deal Masters. Titan OS powers Philips smart TVs in the region. The channels are accessible via the channel EPG from the homepage and […]
ITV has partnered with eBay and PropUp Project, a not-for-profit organisation which specialises in rehoming and reselling props and other items from the film and television industry, to launch ITV ReLoved, an official eBay marketplace. ITV ReLoved will offer fans the chance to purchase a wide range of props, costumes, furniture and other behind the […]
Starting this July, Netflix will exclusively produce and distribute new series and films by Japanese producer Aki Isoyama for the next five years. Her most recent hit, the time-traveling comedy Extremely Inappropriate!, topped Netflix’s most-watched list in Japan for three weeks running. In June 2023, Let’s Get Divorced, which she produced with a screenplay co-written […]