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Mobile Premier League, Prime Focus Technologies Partner for Content Creation (MESA)

PFT Brands, the branding arm of entertainment supply chain software specialist Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), has been tapped by India-based mobile eSports platform Mobile Premier... More

Arsenal Football Club Transforms Live Video Backhaul With AWS (MESA)

Since its founding in 1886, UK-based Football Club Arsenal has garnered an estimated fanbase of more than 100 million worldwide, and today, social media and digital video play a cr... More

Quibi’s Giant Bets (Monday Note)

Quibi is the boldest venture Hollywood has seen in its recent history. It involves multiple breakthroughs in every area: narrative, production and the business model. Here is a bre... More

Will AT&T’s HBO Max Gamble Pay Off? (Digital TV Europe)

AT&T’s WarnerMedia is not necessarily putting all of its eggs in the HBO Max basket, but it is certainly putting a lot of them there. One billion, two hundred million eggs, to be... More

Disney Plus Expected to Reveal More Than 25M Subscribers (Variety)

Disney has Wall Streeters and the industry eagerly awaiting the company’s quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, which will include the first official subscriber numbers for... More

Ampere: Streaming Adapter Market Becomes Competitive Battleground (Rapid TV News)

Research from Ampere Analysis has revealed the unique nature of the streaming adapter market with leading players around globe each with wildly different strategic imperatives batt... More

Fox Taps Verizon Media to Stream Super Bowl in UHD HDR for First Time (DTE)

Verizon’s Media’s streaming workflow and delivery technology will support the streaming of the Super Bowl on the Fox Sports app, the Fox Now and the Yahoo Sports mobile app to ... More

The Streaming Wars Move to Madison Avenue (Forbes)

With tens of billions of dollars being invested in original and licensed content, programs will be heavily promoted to differentiate from their competitors.... More

5 Media, Entertainment Tech Trends to Watch Out for in 2020 (PFT Blog)

2019 was truly action-packed for the Media & Entertainment industry! The wheels of consolidation gained major momentum with several mega-mergers taking place. With all these change... More

Connected TV: Three Things Marketers Need to Know (Adobe Blog)

As the television ecosystem continues to explode in complexity and viewer choice, here are three ways advertisers can stay a step ahead.... More

Super Bowl LIV Looks for Another Record Number of Streams (Next TV)

As always, the power of traditional linear broadcast television will be on full display Sunday, when the San Francisco 49ers face the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV at Hard R... More

Facebook’s Future is Going One of Three Routes (Forbes)

Facebook’s future is likely one of three scenarios; dramatic fall from grace, decline into obscurity or evolution into something more pervasive. Signs of all are there but the ex... More

How Verizon 5G and the NFL are Reinventing Mobile Gaming (Personal Tech)

As the football season marches toward one final showdown, an equally fierce competition has been raging away from the gridiron. Part of a two-year innovation partnership, Verizon a... More

Whip Media Group Closes $50M in Funding to Drive Expansion (MESA)

Whip Media Group has raised $50 million in Series D funding led by Eminence Capital, LP, a $7.2 billion asset management firm, with continued participation from Raine Ventures. The... More

Infront Invests in Videocites Video-Tracking Tech (SportsPro)

Infront Sports has acquired a stake in Israeli artificial intelligence video-tracking firm Videocites, with a view to integrating audience analytics technology into partnerships. T... More

Global OTT Revenue to Grow More Than 50% Over Next Three Years, Surpass $200B (Next TV)

Revenue generated globally by over-the-top services is on pace to surpass $200 billion by the end of 2023, according to new data published by global tech market advisory firm ABI R... More

Procter & Gamble Gets Ready to Enter TV’s Streaming Wars (Variety)

AT&T, Comcast and Walt Disney aren’t the only big companies eager to get into streaming-video. Procter & Gamble, one of the world’s most influential advertisers, is looking to ... More

Netflix, Hulu Consumers Watch 20 Minutes More Streamed Content in 2019 (Rapid TV News)

Research from the NPD Group has found that in 2019 weekly time spent watching the top two subscription video on-demand services Hulu and Netflix rose 7% annually, growing to 4 hour... More

Alexa, Read Me a Story: Audio Content for Kids on the Rise (NY Times)

There are plenty of quality audiobooks, podcasts and music for the young, but weeding through thousands of selections and jumping from platform to platform is a challenge since aud... More

Disney+ Nears Integration Deal With Sky (FierceVideo)

Disney’s new streaming video service, Disney+, is reportedly on the verge of an integration deal with European pay TV operator Sky. According to the Telegraph, Sky is working wit... More

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