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Andrew McDonald
Andrew is Contributing Editor at Digital TV Europe. Follow him on Twitter @andy_mc_donald
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Iflix appoints CEO of MENA region
Iflix has appointed former Mobily and Vodafone executive John Saad as CEO of Iflix Middle…
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Médiamétrie launches French social TV ratings
French audience measurement company Médiamétrie has launched social TV ratings in France to gauge the…
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ProSiebenSat.1 CEO to step down in 2018
ProSiebenSat.1 Media chief executive officer Thomas Ebeling is due to leave the company after its…
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Fullscreen to shut down SVOD service
Fullscreen Media is due to shut down its Fullscreen subscription video-on-demand service in January 2018….
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Night Manager prodco inks $180m funding deal
The Ink Factory, the production company behind BBC and AMC drama The Night Manager, has…
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Banijay Group ups deputy CFO to studios role
Banijay Group has upped deputy chief finance officer Frédéric Balmary to chief operating officer of…
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Viacom makes gains, despite increased programme costs
Viacom reported a year-on-year increase in revenue and earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter, but…
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Love Nature goes live on Amazon Channels in Germany
Wildlife and nature video streaming service Love Nature has launched on Amazon Channels in Germany…
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GroupM: young will ‘erode TV viewing’ as they age
Growing older no longer increases television viewing time, according to GroupM’s ‘The State of Video’…
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Piracy costing service providers ‘up to $8bn a year’
Video service providers lose between US$6 billion and US$8 billion in revenue to piracy each…
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Parks Associates: top US SVOD services hold steady
Netflix, Amazon and Hulu continue to hold places one, two and three in the US…
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Rakuten TV mulls wider European expansion
Video-on-demand service Rakuten TV is mulling plans to expand its footprint across more European countries….
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Sky threatens to cut Sky News ties to ease Fox deal
Sky has threatened to review its ownership of Sky News if were to impede Fox’s…
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Popcornflix acquired by Chicken Soup
Video content firm Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (CSS Entertainment) has acquired consumer-facing VOD…
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Iflix launches in Bangladesh
Emerging market SVOD service Iflix has launched in Bangladesh in partnership with local mobile operator…
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BBC launches interactive voice drama
The BBC has launched what it describes as its first “interactive voice drama” – an…
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Facebook wants focus on communities, not consumption
Facebook has again emphasised its video ambitions, but said its aim is to foster communities…
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Sandvine: 6.5% of US homes access pirate streams
Some 6.5% of households in North America are accessing pirated live television services each month,…
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Ownzones & Zoomin.TV agree app and content deal
OTT entertainment and technology provider Ownzones has struck a three-year partnership deal with MTG-owned online…
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France is ‘king of multilingual Euro content’
France is “the king of multilingual content”, according to new research that shines a light…
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Liberty Global appoints Nair as CEO of LatAm
Liberty Global’s chief technology and innovation officer, Balan Nair, is set to become president and…
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Amazon pledges to up video investment in 2018
Amazon has pledged to increase its investment in video next year, tailoring its content decisions…
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YouTube living room viewing ‘up 70% in a year’
Viewers now watch more than 100 million hours of YouTube in the living room every…
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NPD: video eats up most US smartphone data
Streaming video accounts for 78% of total data used by smartphone owners in the US,…
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VR studio Here Be Dragons makes three hires
Virtual and augmented reality studio Here Be Dragons has added two executive producers and a…
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comScore: 37m Brits turn to YouTube
In the UK some 37.1 million adults watched an average of 311 videos each on…
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Netflix raises further $1.6bn for content spend
Netflix has announced plans to raise US$1.6 billion from investors, a week after the SVOD…
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Snap and NBCUniversal launch digital content studio
Snap and NBCUniversal are partnering on a new digital content studio that will make made-for-mobile…
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Netflix plans $8bn content spend in 2018
Netflix added a record number of third quarter subscribers in its most recent quarter and announced…
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YouGov: Netflix most liked brand among millennials
Netflix is the most positively talked about brand among millennials, according to YouGov BrandIndex data….