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Keywords to Acquire Heavy Iron, Expanding Game Development Services
Keywords Studios has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire Heavy Iron Studios, a provider of specialised game development services located on the West Coast. (more&hellip... More
12 Million New Online Service Users in CEE: Can Businesses, Governments Satisfy Their Digital Appetite? (Emerging Europe)
The number of people in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) who have accessed at least one online service has risen by 15 per cent points since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, acc... More
Britbox Now Available on Next-Gen Freesat Boxes (SeenIt)
Britbox, which offers a growing selection of dramas, comedies, documentaries and films from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, is now available on Freesat’s next-generation s... More
Disney Confirms UK Shift of Linear Content to Disney+ (DTE)
The company announced the October 1 UK closure of Disney Channel, Disney XD and Disney Junior, exactly 25 years after the broadcaster began operating in the country. The Sky Cinema... More
French Audiovisual Exports Rise 18 Percent (World Screen)
Revenues from the export of French content rose by 18 percent in 2019 to reach €325.3 million ($384.6 million).... More
Cloud Gaming Revenue to Reach $585M in 2020 (GamesIndustry)
Cloud gaming made an estimated $170 million in revenue in 2019, and its growth is set to continue at full speed, with revenue expected to reach $4.8 billion by 2023, "with even mor... More
Ampere: Still Room for 3B More SVOD Subscriptions Across 20 Markets (Videonet)
Ampere Analysis has studied the 20 largest TV subscription markets to establish what it believes is the theoretical ceiling for SVOD stacking behaviour and sets the figures at appr... More
How Gaming Has Thrived in a COVID-19 World (A TransPerfect World )
COVID-19 established itself quickly and spread worldwide, leaving chaos and disruption in its wake. Many industries, such as travel and the housing market, were devastated by the p... More
Report: UK Consumers Seeing Less Value in TV-Broadband Bundles (DTE)
A new survey has indicated that a fifth of UK households which subscribe to bundled broadband and TV are considering separating their subscriptions and no longer see value in them.... More
La Liga TV Goes Free Until October (DTE)
Premier Sports’ dedicated Spanish football channel La LIga TV will be free for Sky customers in the UK through to the beginning of October. The channel, which launched in the UK ... More
Keywords Studios Acquires Maverick Media (Proactive)
Keywords Studios has acquired Maverick Media, a video games creative marketing agency, in a deal worth up to £3.6mln. The video game development services group said London-based M... More
BBC Targets 1B Global Audience (Advanced Television)
Tony Hall, Director-General of the BBC, has revealed the Corporation’s ambition to reach a global audience of one billion by the end of the 2020s, going beyond his original aim o... More
Deutsche Telekom Launches Cloud Gaming, Integration With TV Service to Follow (DTE)
The new offering, MagentaGaming, will initially enable users to stream games direct from the cloud to Windows PC, Mac and Android devices such as smartphones and tablets, removing ... More
Moore: BBC One, iPlayer Play ‘Valuable Role in People’s Lives’ (DTE)
The role of BBC One and the BBC iPlayer as a good for the public has been highlighted by Charlotte Moore, BBC Director of Content. Speaking at a digital iteration of the Edinburgh ... More
Fighting Piracy Requires Technological Solutions (NAGRA Blog)
Those who produce and distribute content need to look at the source of piracy through protection devices, considering the technological bias to avoid it.... More
Hall: BBC Crucial to Vision of Global Britain (BTN)
The outgoing director-general of the BBC has described the international reach of the BBC as being “absolutely crucial to any vision of ‘Global Britain’.” Lord Hall said th... More
ITV, BBC Invest in BritBox Australia (TBI)
UK commercial broadcaster ITV and BBC Studios are to inject more than A$35m into BritBox’s soon-to-launch Australian operation. BBCS and ITV, which revealed in March plans to lau... More
Report: UK Adults Doubled Time Spent on Streamers in April (TBI)
UK adults doubled the amount of time spent on streamers during the peak of the Covid-19 lockdown, a report from the country’s media regulator has found. Ofcom revealed the findin... More
The Binge Watching Crackdown Begins (Sifted)
France is preparing to crack down on binge-watching. The French government is looking at how much time consumers spend streaming videos online as part of its broader thinking on cu... More
iPlayer Requests Up 47% (Advanced Television)
A record-breaking number of viewers turned to BBC iPlayer in the first half of 2020, with 3.1 billion requests to stream programmes, up by 47 per cent on the previous year. April-J... More