Amid fast-growing interest and investment in Connected TV (CTV) across the UK and Europe, a report, The Power and Potential of CTV in Europe, reveals that CTV advertising still suffers from a lack of transparency and need for quality verification. Only 30 per cent of advertisers and publishers have full transparency into where ad placements…

Spanish telco Telefónica has reported a 2023 operating a loss of €892 million as a result of a write-off of its UK business (Virgin Media O2) and the cost of its layoff plan in Spain affecting some 3,400 employees. Telefónica suffered its first annual losses since 2002, although the future trend is pssitive. The company…

Comscore, a specialist in planning, transacting, and evaluating media across platforms, has unveiled an update to its Comscore Campaign Ratings (CCR) in the US. This enhancement now extends deduplicated audience measurement to the local market level, which can be applied to all programmatic environments and platforms. CCR will integrate national and local linear TV, digital,…

RTL Deutschland and ProSiebenSat.1 have announced a partnership will bring together the content and services of each group’s adtech company, Smartclip and Virtual Minds, so that advertisers can run campaigns spanning the two partners’ platforms – ranging from linear TV to smart TV advertising and campaigns on the RTL+ and Joyn streaming platforms. The media…

Luxembourg-based M7 Group, the pay-TV provider owned by Canal+, has concluded a satellite distribution agreement with Prague-based Stanice O. for its music channels ÓČKO TV and ÓČKO STAR. ÓČKO TV has been broadcasting since 2002, making it the first Czech thematic television focusing on music and modern lifestyle. ÓČKO Star features hits from the eighties…

Former Reef Television CEO, Richard Farmbrough, has partnered with Executive Producer Owen Rodd to create Somersault Studio, a new indie production company with bases in London and Cardiff, creating factual content for broadcasters, streamers, brands and the podcast market. Farmbrough and Rodd share a background in factual content. Farmbrough launched and ran Reef Television for 15 years…

France24, international news channel, has launched on Freeview UK channel 266. This expansion allows Freeview users across the UK to access France 24’s coverage of global news, culture, and current affairs in French, English, Spanish and Arabic languages.  With this launch, France 24 aims to further strengthen its presence in the UK market and provide…

11 hours ago Radio Duration 1:14:30 Before his death, Alexei Navalny was the most visible symbol of the opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia. Now, the opposition is in a precarious state. Matt Galloway speaks with Navalny’s friend and Putin critic Boris Akunin, a celebrated Russian author; and political scientist Jan Matti Dollbaum, co-author of…

As an ’80s baby who was truly raised by the ’90s, I will forever be grateful for the robust number of stellar and diverse Black voices and artists that shone bright during what I feel was a golden age of television. While comedy may have felt like King, we never had a shortage of dramatic…