Category: Media & Entertainment

  • ‘Fear of missing out’ keeping girls and young women online despite sexism

    Almost half of girls aged 11 to 21 in Girlguiding survey say sexism and misogyny makes them feel less safe Girls and young women are seeing more unwanted sexual images and suffering more cyberstalking online, but still don’t want to take a break from social media because of a fear of missing out, a survey…

  • ‘Fear of missing out’ keeping girls and young women online despite sexism

    Almost half of girls aged 11 to 21 in Girlguiding survey say sexism and misogyny makes them feel less safe Girls and young women are seeing more unwanted sexual images and suffering more cyberstalking online, but still don’t want to take a break from social media because of a fear of missing out, a survey…

  • ‘Fear of missing out’ keeping girls and young women online despite sexism

    Almost half of girls aged 11 to 21 in Girlguiding survey say sexism and misogyny makes them feel less safe Girls and young women are seeing more unwanted sexual images and suffering more cyberstalking online, but still don’t want to take a break from social media because of a fear of missing out, a survey…

  • ‘Fear of missing out’ keeping girls and young woman online despite sexism

    Almost half of girls aged 11 to 21 in Girlguiding survey say sexism and misogyny makes them feel less safe Girls and young women are seeing more unwanted sexual images and suffering more cyberstalking online, but still don’t want to take a break from social media because of a fear of missing out, a survey…

  • Channel 4 appoints Spotify’s Patel as Chief Commercial Officer

    Channel 4 has announced the appointment of Rak Patel as its Chief Commercial Officer. In this newly created role, Patel will assume leadership of Channel 4 Sales, the commercial arm of Channel 4, with responsibility for driving the organisation’s advertising revenue. A key focus of the role is to accelerate the commercial elements of Channel…

  • France: Chérie 25 threatened by NRJ 12 axe  

    The economic viability and the very existence of DTT channel Chérie 25 would be impacted by the non-renewal of sister channel NRJ 12’s authorisation, according to French TV and radio NRJ Group. In July 2024, regulator Arcom decided against the renewal of the NRJ 12 DTT frequency, which will expire at the end of February…

  • Microsoft looks set to shutter its retail media business

    Five years after acquiring the retail advertising platform PromoteIQ, Microsoft now seems to be quietly shutting it down and pushing clients to use Criteo. Multiple sources say Microsoft began letting retail media publishers know that it was sunsetting the service over the summer, at the same time it announced a “strategic collaboration” with the ad…

  • Intelsat CEO: “SES buying Intelsat is right”

    Intelsat CEO David Wajsgras confirms the logic behind the decision for SES to buy his business, saying that there had been a tailwind of talk about mergers and consolidation for years, and that the decision to come together was needed in order to be able to compete against the new players in space, not least…

  • Anthonis to head MPA EMEA

    Emilie Anthonis is to become the new President and Managing Director for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region of trade body the Motion Picture Association (MPA) today announced, effective January 1st 2025. She will succeed Stan McCoy, who is stepping down after more than a decade of transformational leadership. “Emilie is a veteran…

  • Icasa “over-reached” in confiscating StarSat kit

    The October 2nd raid by South Africa communications regulator Icasa on satellite broadcaster StarSat was deliberately damaging said StarSat officials. Senior technical staff were at the broadcaster’s Johannesburg head office and tried to tell Icasa and the police during the raid which equipment operated their systems. But, says StarSat, this advice was ignored and cables…