Warner Bros Discovery [WBD] has announced Buddy Marini as its new GM of Japan. Based in Tokyo, Marini will join the company on June 3rd and report to WBD Asia Pacific President, James Gibbons. In his new role, Marini will oversee all operations in Japan except the Theatrical and Warner Bros Studio Tour Tokyo: The…

Airties, a global leader of managed Wi-Fi solutions for broadband service providers, has announced it is deploying Airties’ suite of Smart Wi-Fi software to T-Mobile 5G Home Internet customers across the US, including for T-Mobile’s new Home Internet Plus plan, to help further optimise the broadband experience. The announcement builds upon Airties’ growing market leadership…

At this week’s Google I/O 2024, many marketers will be tuning in for any updates on the future of generative AI and search. The annual developer conference, which takes place on Tuesday, has always been a place for the search giant to highlight major innovations for its various audiences. At Google I/O 2023, the company…

S4C has announced a new mixed media children’s comedy series called Annibendod (‘Messy‘) that will air in January 2025. The Welsh language series has been developed to boost children’s Welsh language skills using comedy and simple to understand language. Annibendod is a 20 x 10-minute series produced by Twt Productions in collaboration with Boom Cymru,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…