Ad tech company Adform has agreed to acquire Splicky, the advertising technology division of Switzerland-based marketer Goldbach Group, in a move aimed at strengthening its omnichannel media buying capabilities in […]
Liberty completes withdrawal from CEE with Slovakia sale
Liberty Global has agreed to sell UPC Slovakia to O2 Slovakia, an affiliate of e& PPF Telecom, for around €95 million.
ProSiebenSat.1 sells wetter.com to Funke Mediengruppe
German media company ProSiebenSat.1 has agreed to sell online weather portal wetter.com to Funke Mediengruppe, underlining its strategic focus on its core entertainment business while the publishing house is strengthening […]
Brussels attacks Google for ‘unfairly harvesting’ web and YouTube content for AI
The European Commission has launched a formal antitrust case into Google over allegations the company is using content from web publishers and YouTube creators for its AI services in breach […]
Harmonic to sell video business to MediaKind in $145m deal
Harmonic has agreed to sell its Video business to MediaKind in an all-cash deal worth approximately $145 million (€134.9m), in a move that will see the US vendor concentrate on […]
Netflix seals $82.7bn deal to acquire Warner Bros and HBO
Netflix has struck a definitive agreement to acquire Warner Bros, including its film and TV studios, HBO and the HBO Max streaming service, in a cash-and-stock deal that values the […]
RTL Deutschland confirms job cuts as shift to streaming accelerates
RTL Deutschland has confirmed it will cut around 600 jobs as part of a major organisational restructuring, following reports circulating yesterday about large-scale redundancies at the German media group.
ECHR faults Italy’s DTT frequency regime over lack of safeguards
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Italy’s framework for allocating digital terrestrial television frequencies breached freedom of expression rights, finding that the legal and regulatory safeguards in […]
iPlayer growth lifts BBC viewing as BVOD climbs
Ofcom’s latest annual report on the BBC shows that increasing use of BBC iPlayer is now propping up overall BBC television viewing, as traditional broadcast audiences continue their long-term decline.
Ofcom says VOD safeguards “broadly adequate” but calls for clearer warnings and better signposting
Ofcom has published its first review of audience protection measures used by UK video-on-demand providers, concluding that most services are deploying tools that are “broadly adequate” to protect viewers but […]