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FIs look to tech providers for RTP, FedNow onboarding
Adoption is ticking up for The Clearing House’ Real Time Payments network and the Federal Reserve’s FedNow payments rail as financial institutions add payment services to their platforms. The RTP network has more than 500 institutions on its network, according to The Clearing House’s website. Meanwhile, the FedNow payments rail had 728 financial…
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Chris Pratt shares Moments Worth Paying For
In advance of the May 24th release of Sony Pictures’ The Garfield Movie, the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagne-loving feline’s voice talent Chris Pratt is sharing a special video message in support of the Industry Trust for IP Awareness’s Moments Worth Paying For campaign highlighting the importance of audiences seeing the movie on the big screen and…
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AMC Networks Q1 revenues down 17%
AMC Networks has reported Q1 net revenues of $596 million (€552.3m), down 17 per cent from the prior year. Excluding nonrecurring revenues related to Apple TV+ series Silo and the sale of digital agency 25/7 Media, net revenues decreased 6 per cent. Streaming revenues stood at $145 million, an increase of 3 per cent on…
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Canal+ to launch Ciné+ OCS in July
Canal+ has restructured its drama and movies offering and will relaunch it under new on-demand brand, Ciné+ OCS, on July 3rd The French pay-TV group acquired the OCS pay-TV bouquet, and its production arm Orange Studio, from Orange France in January. Available via the Canal+ bouquet as well as through services operated by various distributing…
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Xmas Day NFL on Netflix?
Neftlix is heavily tipped to outbid the competition air two live NFL games on Christmas Day. Writing on social media platform X, John Ourand – a veteran sports business reporter – said: “It looks like Netflix will wind up carrying the two NFL games scheduled for December 25th, per a bevy of sources”. It’s not…
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IBC 2024: Booked exhibitor space surpasses 2023
IBC 2024 is now open for registration, with the global media and entertainment (M&E) industry set to converge on the RAI Amsterdam from September 13th to 16th. The event will bring the content and technology community together to showcase innovations, address media’s most pressing trends, and enable collaboration during the four-day exhibition and three-day IBC…
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Survey: Marketer spending optimism rises in 2024
Nielsen, the specialist in audience measurement, data and analytics, has released its sixth global Annual Marketing Report, revealing marketers’ priorities and plans to improve ROI in 2024 and beyond. The report, which surveyed nearly 2,000 global marketers, found that marketers continue to view social media, search, online/mobile video, and online/mobile display as the most effective…
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Loud Minds partners with White Spark Pictures
Loud Minds, the London-based indie founded by Tim Haines and best known for its specialist factual and natural history programming, has signed a partnership agreement with White Spark Pictures, the Australian factual indie behind the VR documentaries The Antarctica Experience and Beyond the Milky Way. A first agreement of its kind for both indies, the…
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Airtel, Google Cloud strategic collaboration
Bharti Airtel (Airtel) and Google Cloud have entered into a long-term collaboration to deliver cloud solutions to Indian businesses. The strategic collaboration will offer a suite of cutting-edge cloud solutions from Google Cloud to fast-track cloud adoption and modernisation for Airtel’s customers. In addition, Airtel will provide a suite of cloud managed services to its…
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Molang to speak English in second YouTuber season
Millimages, an independent animation studio and IP developer, has announced a second season for its Molang YouTuber series. Season 2 (20 x 14’) will build on the success of the first season with the novel addition of an English speaking Molang. A distinguishing feature of the six seasons of the Molang TV series is that…