M+E Europe Headlines
Beatles’ 1970 ‘Let It Be’ Documentary Headed to Disney+ After Restoration by Peter Jackson’s Team (Variety)
For decades, the attitude toward the documentary “Let It Be” in the Beatles‘ camp seemed to be: Let it it rest in peace. But the film is finally going to be seen again. A res... More
Slalom Elevates Steven Polster to Lead Media & Entertainment Globally
Slalom, the global business and technology consulting company, announced Steven Polster will serve as the company’s first head of Global Media and Entertainment (M&E). With a tra... More
European SVOD Players Gained Terrain in 2023 (Señal News)
The accumulated operating revenues of the top 100 audiovisual groups in Europe grew twice as fast in 2022 (+23% as compared to 2016) as the AV service revenues for the overall mark... More
Xperi Releases Top 100 Most Listened-to Songs In-Vehicle in the U.S., Globally for 2023 and Q1 2024
New insights from DTS revealed its full year 2023 and Q1 2024 data highlighting the top songs users listened to in-vehicle, in addition to sharing insights from DTS AutoStage's Son... More
Veritone Enhances Advertising, Content Intelligence Suite to Support Future-Proofing of Client Broadcast Revenues
Veritone announced feature enhancements to its Advertising and Content Intelligence Suite designed to embrace data privacy while helping to safeguard ad revenues. (more…)... More
Zywave Partners with HTEC to Streamline Insurtech Platform
To remain at the forefront of the rapidly evolving insurance industry, Zywave relies on robust, resilient, and scalable systems. Zywave’s all-in-one platform is a crucial technol... More
BBC Appoints Alex Kay-Jelski as New Director of Sport (SN)
The executive will lead the teams across commissioning, production, digital, and journalism and work closely with talent and partners to help drive the sport's growth across the BB... More
French Production Returned to Pre-pandemic Levels in 2023 as Mid-budget Films Make a Comeback (ScreenDaily)
A total of 298 films were approved by the CNC last year, driven by French-initiated films which totalled 236, up from 208 in 2022. There were 18 animated films compared to 13 in 20... More
The Rise of Foreign Music and Film/TV Content in the U.S. (Luminate)
U.S. audiences are engaging with non-English music more than ever before. And it appears this trend is here to stay, as Millennial (57%) and Gen Z listeners (59%) show even greater... More
EPAM Achieves Platinum Partner Status with commercetools, Signaling Growing Expertise in Composable Technologies
Fueled by exceptional delivery, product contribution and extensive sales and technical enablement, EPAM's commitment to excellence drives achievement of the highest partner status ... More
Portugal Offers 30% Cash Refund to Lure High-budget Global Productions (Senal News)
It will complement the existing cash rebate aimed at small and medium-sized productions, while the new incentive will aim at productions with higher budgets.... More
Voice Marketplace AI Voices are Now Available on Stellar (Respeecher Blog)
Respeecher integrates with Yella Umbrella to provide a seamless speech-to-speech AI voice conversion experience to Stellar users.... More
2G Digital Post, XL8 Team Up to Provide Advanced Hybrid AI Media Services for Captioning, Localisation
In advance of the 2024 NAB Show, 2G Digital Post announced a partnership with XL8. Combining 2G Digital’s Captioning, Localization and Content Optimization services offering with... More
Fabric Partners with Katch to Enhance Content Discovery with Genomic Data
Fabric has partnered with Katch, a leading technology and data company in the recommendation space, to offer Genomic data to Fabric customers. Katch's highly differentiated, descri... More
NAB 2024: Synamedia Loads the Bases for a Homerun with Quality, Reliability, Scalability
Synamedia will demonstrate its dynamic video network portfolio at the 2024 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 13-17. From B2B distribution, D2C streaming, edge delivery, ad-insertion and... More
NAGRA, Eluvio Extend Forensic Watermarking Collaboration
In advance of the 2024 NAB Show, NAGRA, Kudelski Group’s provider of content protection and media and entertainment solutions, and Content Fabric pioneer Eluvio have announced th... More
BBC Film Celebrates Four Films in Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival 2024
Andrea Arnold’s Bird will world premiere in competition; Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Sandhya Suri’s Santosh and Ariane Labed’s September Says will premiere i... More
VSI Selected as Prime Video Preferred Vendor for Localisation
VSI Group has been awarded the Prime Video Preferred Vendor badge for localization as one of five global localization partners.... More
Optimizing Revenue Streams in Digital Gaming Through Scalable Rights (Qvest Blog)
There is a lot of passion in the digital gaming industry, both from the side of digital game publishers, who are excited about their creations, and the side of the fans who are loy... More
AMC Networks Int’l Names Ruiz as Southern Europe Chief (DTVE)
Ruiz will lead the management of all the company’s brands in Spain and Portugal. He will report directly to Eduardo Zulueta, president of AMC Networks International.... More
