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BBC Studios Signs First Look Deal with Blink Industries (Advanced Television)
It marks BBC Studios Kids & Family’s first first-look deal since it became part of BBC Studios in 2022. The partnership gives exclusive access to Blink Industries’ slate of... More
Mobile Accounted for $90.4B of Global Games Revenue in 2023 (GamesIndustry)
Consumer spending experienced 2% decrease to $107 billion.... More
The French Open Pulls Record Audience Numbers for WBD (DTVE)
Its programming of the French Open has delivered its highest tournament television audience on its linear networks in eight years.... More
Streaming Overtakes Dutch Linear Viewing (BTN)
For the first time, Dutch viewers spent more time watching streaming services than live TV. In Q1 streaming made up 25% of average daily viewing time compared to 21% for linear TV.... More
The Olympics Is Personal(ized) (TV Tech)
The Olympics are not the same as the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl provides an unusual moment where most households in the US tune into the same channel and watch the same broadcast a... More
SAP Infuses Business AI Across Enterprise Cloud Portfolio (TM)
SAP has announced Business AI innovations and collaborations with partners including Google Cloud, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia at its 2024 Sapphire event. As SAP embeds its advanced... More
ITV Teams With Friend MTS in the Battle Against Piracy
Friend MTS announced that ITV, the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster, has chosen Friend MTS’s anti-piracy services to help protect ITV content. With Friend MTS’s 24×7 Glob... More
AWS, SAP Partner to Offer AI Cloud Tools to Power Business Applications (AI Business)
As part of a newly expanded partnership, Amazon’s generative AI platform Bedrock will be made available through SAP’s AI Core infrastructure service. Businesses using SAP’s s... More
ZDF & Rai Strike Pre-sale Deals for TF1 Manga Adaptation ‘Cat’s Eyes’ (TBI)
Germany’s ZDF and Italy’s Rai have struck pre-sale deals for Cat’s Eyes, the live action drama based on the cult manga series, with Newen Connect.... More
How Technology is Driving C-suite Expansion (SDxCentral)
Every organisation is familiar with CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CTOs and CISOs — the first three positions, at least, have been around for as long as modern business itself. But business c... More
AI Hype Soars, but Businesses Confront Adoption Challenges (AI Magazine)
A recent survey conducted by the Reuters Institute and Oxford University highlights that, whilst young people are the most frequent users of AI, not as many people are harnessing t... More
Is Super Aggregation Still the Way Forward for Pay-TV Operators? (TVB)
Steve Russell, vice president, video entertainment solutions at Irdeto, looks at ways to meet the challenges of super-aggregation in a fragmented content environment.... More
BBC First Launches in Czech Republic, Slovakia (Advanced Television)
BBC Studios has announced that its British drama channel BBC First is now available in Czech Republic through T-Mobile and O2, and in Slovakia through Slovak Telekom.... More
The Kitchen Will be Present at Natpe Budapest (TTV)
The Kitchen Hungary’s key executives, along with Julie Bénéteau, Director of International Sales, will be representing the studios’ global team at the event in June.... More
Breaking Down Language Barriers with Real-Time Translation (XL8 Blog)
The online news platform market allows traditional news organisations and digital-native players to connect with global audiences. However, the sheer volume of content can be chall... More
DTS Artist Impact Report: How Jelly Roll ‘Rolls’ with In-Vehicle Listeners (Xperi Blog)
New data from DTS AutoStage and TiVo tracks rap artist Jelly Roll’s crossover to country and beyond.... More
Global SVOD Revenue to Grow by Nearly $117B Over the Next 8 Years (DTVE)
Global SVOD revenue growth will average 13.3% per year over the next eight years, adding $116.6 billion in net new revenue, according to new data. The report emphasises that the ke... More
MetaBroadcast: Learn How We Helped ITV Transform Their Descriptive Metadata
With priorities to grow its scripted business, attract more monthly users to ITVX and maintain its leadership position in the UK broadcast market, ITV realised its descriptive and ... More
Forecast: India SVOD Revenue at $2.1B in 2028 (Advanced Television)
The SVOD service revenue in India is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.7 per cent from $1.5 billion (€1.38bn) in 2023 to $2.1 billion in 2028, driven ... More
The 4 Types of Generative AI Transforming Our World (Forbes)
The term generative AI refers to a relatively new field of AI that can create human-like content, from pictures and videos to poetry and even computer code. To achieve this, severa... More
