Mega Movie Weekend returns for June, running from June 21st to 23rd, featuring recent big-screen hits and a number of classics at promotional prices to help audiences build their digital libraries. The campaign runs across key retailers, including Amazon Prime Video, Sky Store, the Apple TV app, Rakuten TV, Virgin Media and EE TV Store, […]
Mattel has announced Barbie Mysteries: The Great Horse Chase, Mattel Television Studios’ all-new animated children’s series, will debut globally on Netflix this autumn. Featuring an all-new animation style and storyline, Barbie Mysteries: The Great Horse Chase will consist of eight 25-minute episodes. The series follows Barbie ‘Brooklyn’ Roberts and Barbie ‘Malibu’ Roberts as they embark […]
OSN, the MENA entertainment company, has acquired the rights to all-new first run Max Originals and Warner Bros Pictures feature films in an exclusive multi-year deal with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). Subscribers will now enjoy access to Warner Bros Pictures film catalogue and exclusive Pay 1 features in MENA following their theatrical and home entertainment […]
Mattel has partnered with Samsung to deliver its first three 24/7 Free Ad Supported Streaming (FAST) channels on Samsung TV Plus, the free TV streaming service. The Barbie and Friends, Hot Wheels Action, and Mattel Jr channels are set to go live in the US later this year and will be free to access from […]
Mattel has announced that their fan-favourite animated series Barbie: A Touch of Magic is returning for a second season. Premiering April 18th on Netflix, the 13 new episodes will follow Barbie ‘Brooklyn’ Roberts and Barbie ‘Malibu’ Roberts as they embark on a new adventure. When a magical crystal gem goes missing, Barbie and Barbie are […]
ITV1 and ITVX’s extensive Oscars coverage tripled UK Oscars viewing year-on-year while viewers also flocked to stream Ryan Gosling’s I’m Just Ken performance. In total, the combined reach of all of ITV1 and ITVX’s Oscars content offerings – including exclusive red carpet and behind-the-scenes moments – hit 5.2 million viewers, 7-day figures across devices show. […]
The new movie from Mattel, Barbie and Stacie to the Rescue, will make its UK linear TV premiere exclusively on free-to-air children’s channel POP on March 23rd. This new adventure sees the Roberts family head to Wisconsin for a hot air balloon festival where Stacie finds herself caught in between, too young for the adult […]
Barbie has accumulated a far larger audience than any other Oscar-nominated movie, after their arrival to streaming platforms, far surpassing Netflix’s nominee, Maestro, by 45 per cent according to data from Plum Research. In the first seven days of its release Barbie (on Max) was viewed by 4.1 million unique viewers in the US, compared […]
Do films with certain characteristics tend to get nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards? Nielsen’s Gracenote ran an analysis to answer this question tapping its descriptive metadata around entertainment content.Among other characteristics, the taxonomy of Gracenote Video Descriptors cover 294 different Video Moods organised hierarchically from broad, high-level concepts (Level 1) to more […]
Mattel has announced that Barbie, Stacie and friends are returning for an all-new journey in Barbie and Stacie to the Rescue. Coming to Netflix on March 14th (September 5th in the UK), the hour-long special will follow Barbie’s middle sister, Stacie, as she comes to the rescue of Barbie and Skipper. Barbie and Stacie to […]