All Consume articles – Page 12
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NewsWBD Max European Launch Set for 2024
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is to launch its Max streaming service in 22 European countries in Spring 2024, followed by launches in France and Belgium later in the year.
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NewsBBC Blames Soap Cancellation on ‘Super Inflation’ in Drama Production
The BBC has cancelled daytime soap Doctors after 23 years on air, blaming ‘super inflation in drama production.”
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NewsGerman Broadcasters ARD and ZDF Launch Streaming Network
German broadcasters ARD and ZDF have officially launched a joint streaming network which allows viewers to watch their shows on either of their platforms.
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NewsITV Launches Linear Addressable TV Ad Offer
ITV has started offering linear addressable advertising across its ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and ITVBe networks in YouView homes, opening up addressable targeting for advertisers in live broadcast viewing across 1.3 million households.
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Industry TrendsThe Future of Cinema: Doom or Boom?
Covid-related venue closures and the giant rise of streaming have cost the cinema culture a significant loss in audience numbers, and now with the aftershock of the Hollywood writers’ strike, cinema needs an innovative force if it is to avoid a prolonged decline in viewership, writes Sheryl Hickey.
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NewsMeta Rolls out Generative AI Tools for Advertisers
Meta Platforms has begun rolling out generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can create content like image backgrounds and variations of written text for all advertisers.
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NewsGlobal Streamer Content Spend Up 7% to $42bn
The major global streaming platforms will invest $42bn in original and acquired film and TV content in 2023, according to research by Ampere Analysis.
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Industry TrendsIBC Changemakers Podcast: F1 Cars, a Yellow Bear and Supporting Young People
In episode Seven of the IBC’s Changemaker series of Podcasts, Actors and Changemakers, Lisa Kelly, Head of Content Innovation & Development, Children in Need, BBC, speaks to Nadira Tudor about how Pudsey Bear will be stepping into a sim-rig to drive supercars, and dancing his way through this year’s appeal.
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NewsSports Rights Ownership Fragments as Western Market Spend hits $35bn
Broadcast rights to popular sports competitions are increasingly being split across a growing number of services in major Western markets, according to research from Ampere Analysis.
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NewsAmazon to Introduce Ads for Prime Video Streaming
Amazon Prime Video is to introduce adverts to its streaming service in 2024.
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NewsUK broadcasters team to launch live TV streaming service Freely
The BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 have collaborated on the development of Freely, a new free TV service that will deliver live TV over broadband.
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NewsStreaming homes in Western Europe set to overtake North America in 2024
The number of households taking at least one subscription OTT service in Western Europe is set to surpass North America next year, with the UK and Germany driving much of the growth.
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NewsPact Census: TV production revenues hit all time high in 2022
TV sector revenues reached their highest ever levels in the UK in 2022, according to the annual 2023 Pact Census.
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Technical PapersIBC2023 Tech Papers: Sign Language Interpreter Virtual Human Avatar "KIKI"
IBC2023: This Technical Paper presents KIKI, a virtual human avatar sign language intepreter, the importance of this creation and it’s goals for the future.
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Technical PapersIBC2023 Tech Papers: Recommendations for improving on-demand content, post-broadcast derived from an analysis of minute by minute consumption patterns
IBC2023: This Technical Paper outlines a survey of minute-by-minute audience consumption of radio and television programmes, describes the four main patterns of consumption and the way in which these can be characterised through mathematical modelling.
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NewsIBC2023: Sports streaming - ‘Critical to monetise younger viewers’
A key challenge facing sports streaming services is harnessing the potential of younger sports fans, that was the view of a panel of experts in sports streaming, speaking at the IBC2023 Content Everywhere stage.
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VideoIABM identifies key drivers of change in MediaTech
At IBC2023 in Amsterdam, industry body and IBC co-owner IABM presented its latest research on the key drivers of change in MediaTech. Lorenzo Zanni, Head of Insight & Analysis, IABM, discussed the research findings with Jade Kurian, President and Co-Founder, latakoo, Kishore Ak, CTO, Zee, Aditi Pandey, Head of Vendor ...
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VideoHow broadcasters can win over Gen Alpha
At IBC2023 in Amsterdam, John Olivieira, Publisher, OneWorld, and Matt Risley, Managing Director, 4Studio, Channel 4, discussed the creation, distribution and monetisation of content for Generation Alpha, those born from 2013 onwards.
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NewsIBC2023: Omdia – Value of Gaming IP is Rocketing
At a premium delegate session at IBC2023 in Amsterdam, Maria Rua Aguete, Technology Fellow and Executive Director, Media, Service Providers & Platforms, Omdia, unveiled the research company’s latest report on gaming IP, drawing the audience’s attention to a series of factors that are combining to super-charge the market.
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VideoThe rise of gaming IP across the entertainment industry
At IBC2023 in Amsterdam, Maria Rua Aguete, Technology Fellow and Executive Director, Media, Service Providers & Platforms, Omdia, unveiled the research company’s latest report on gaming IP and the rapid rise of the bonds between games, movies and TV. In particular, she examined how TV show “The Last of Us” ...
