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Verizon leads investment in Streamroot CDN tech

Verizon Ventures, Partech Ventures, TechStars Venture Capital Fund and R/GA have all thrown their weight behind start-up Streamroot’s video content delivery technology, raising $3.2 million in an...

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Clinch clinches $3MN for personalised video ads

Ad targeting specialist Clinch has completed a $3 million Series A financing round, led by a group of strategic, private investors, including lead investor Richard Gati, head of BXR Partners’ Singapore...

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AT&T mulls sale of LATAM pay-TV assets

AT&T is considering scaling down its footprint in Latin America’s pay-TV market as a way to reduce its debt and allay regulators’ concerns regarding its planned merger with Time Warner.

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ViralGains gets cash injection to boost machine-learning ad offer

ViralGains, which bills itself as a ‘video advertising journey platform’, has snagged $13.5 million in a Series B round.

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Netflix heads to Canada to establish first international production studio

Canadian content is becoming a focus area for Netflix through the launch of a production house specifically dedicated to creating originals within the country, with a five-year $400 million budget to...

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Investment in e-Sports advertising ramps up

The e-Sports-branding trend is well underway, with more than 600 e-Sports sponsorship agreements made since the beginning of 2016, according to Nielsen market intelligence.

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NAB fires back over Trump threats to pull NBC’s broadcast licence

US President Donald Trump has threatened to challenge broadcast TV licences in retaliation for an NBC News report, tweeting that network news has become "partisan, distorted and fake".

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Pluto TV sees cash injection from Samsung’s capital arm

Leading millennial-based US over-the-top (OTT) service Pluto TV has received $5 million in funding from Samsung Venture Investment, with participation from other investors totalling $8.3 million.

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Orient Hontai to buy half of Mediapro

Chinese investment fund Orient Hontai Capital is close to finalising a deal to acquire around 50% of shares in Mediapro.

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Vemba raises $6MN in funding

Vemba, which focuses on new video formats in social, over-the-top (OTT) and web platforms, has raised $6 million in series A-1 funding from Time Warner Investments and SpotX, with participation from...

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Eurofins Digital Testing snaps up My Eye Media

Aiming to strengthen its multiplatform TV and video service provider segment, quality assurance (QA), and test tools and services provider Eurofins Digital Testing has acquired My Eye Media

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Netflix ‘binge-racing’ gambit strikes marketing coup

Subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) leader Netflix has released data on what it’s calling “binge-racing,” showing which programmes its subscribers watched the fastest around the world.

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Redbox offers discounts on Disney digital titles

The last remaining successful physical media rental purveyor in the US, Redbox, has started offering discounted digital downloads of Disney films, in the absence of a formal content partnership with...

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Apple blows away Wall Street for Q4

Apple crushed Wall Street's expectations for its fourth-quarter earnings.

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Google’s TV clout set to accelerate with Android TV

Google could gain increased clout in the pay-TV market as interest from operators in Android TV picks up and creates a surge in shipments of Android TV STBs.

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Tech giants blast FCC’s net neutrality reversal

Reaction to the decision by US broadcast regulator the FCC to release a draft order eliminating most network neutrality rules has been swift — and overwhelmingly negative.

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Vertuoso launches to focus on vertical video

Entertainment branding and marketing veteran Curt Doty (pictured) has launched Vertuoso, a creative and production agency specifically focused on ‘vertical storytelling’ — ie, in portrait mode on the...

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Nexstar to buy ad giant LKQD for $90MN

Nexstar Media Group has announced plans to acquire ad tech specialist LKQD Technologies, for $90 million in cash.

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Time hits Asia with significant video expansion deal with Qello

Global content monetisation and distribution platform Qello Global has cut a major deal with Time to distribute its video content across a portfolio of brands throughout Asia.

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Apple further expands TV team with three Amazon execs

Three Amazon Studios execs have joined the Apple original TV content push.

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