News
-
The Trade Desk Falls Out of the S&P 500, Dropping Straight to the SmallCap 600
The Trade Desk Falls Out of the S&P 500, Dropping Straight to the SmallCap 600 S&P Dow Jones Indices will remove The Trade Desk from the S&P 500 before trading opens on 21 September, with Illumina taking its place; the ad-tech firm skips the MidCap 400 entirely and lands in the SmallCap 600 after a roughly 82% stock slide and just 14 months in the index. The demotion was announced hours after roughly 575 layoffs from the company's 15% workforce cut took effect.
-
Sky Reboots Sky Go as a Companion App With Cross-Device Continuity
Sky Reboots Sky Go as a Companion App With Cross-Device Continuity Sky launched a redesigned Sky Go exclusively for Sky Glass and Sky Stream households, bringing the Sky OS experience to mobile with resume-from-TV, synced My Library, remote recording scheduling, Full HD streaming and richer programme pages with cast information and ratings. The upgrade turns the phone into a continuity layer for the main-screen experience rather than a standalone streaming app.
-
Zattoo Brings Two-Second Live Latency and Three AI Prototypes to IBC
Zattoo Brings Two-Second Live Latency and Three AI Prototypes to IBC Zattoo will demo Media-over-QUIC live delivery at IBC that cuts end-to-end latency by more than 80%, from 10-13 seconds to around 2 seconds in browsers and on Tizen and Android TV, running on production hardware. Alongside it come three AI prototypes — a channel marketplace that cuts operator quotation prep from weeks to days, real-time AI subtitle translation and a conversational discovery assistant — plus a next-generation set-top box with a dedicated NPU for on-device AI.
-
Streaming Prices Are Rising Three Times Faster Than Inflation, THR Analysis Finds
Streaming Prices Are Rising Three Times Faster Than Inflation, THR Analysis Finds The Hollywood Reporter calculates that streaming prices collectively rose 11.8% over the past 12 months and have climbed at more than triple the US inflation rate since 2022, against cable and satellite's historical average of 3.9% a year. Apple TV is up 200% since its 2019 launch, Disney+ up 172% and Netflix Premium up 125% since 2013, and the eight major US streamers ad-free now cost about $151 a month combined.
-
Sixteen Deals In, Disney+ Emerges as Europe’s Most Aggressive Broadcaster Ally
Sixteen Deals In, Disney+ Emerges as Europe’s Most Aggressive Broadcaster Ally VideoWeek's new tracker counts 16 SVOD-broadcaster content partnerships since Netflix-TF1 opened the trend in summer 2025: Disney+ leads with eight, including last week's M6 deal, against four for Prime Video and three for Netflix, with ten of the 16 deals concentrated in France and Spain. Exclusivity has not become the norm — Netflix and Disney+ have each signed with both RTVE and Atresmedia — no standard deal blueprint has emerged, and the UK, Germany, Italy and the Nordics remain largely untapped.
-
Comcast Technology Solutions Wins Multi-Year A+E Global Media Contract for Centralised VOD Distribution
Comcast Technology Solutions Wins Multi-Year A+E Global Media Contract for Centralised VOD Distribution A+E Global Media handed Comcast Technology Solutions a multi-year contract to run centralised VOD management and distribution for A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and other brands via Comcast MediaExpress, part of the Media360 portfolio, giving the group a single ingest point with 24/7 managed delivery to Amazon, Apple Channels, Xfinity, Cox, Mediacom, DIRECTV and DISH. It is CTS's third announcement in a week ahead of IBC, after six VideoAI applications and the Ateme integration into Media360.
-
M6 Takes a Stake in Sweetz, France’s New AI-Powered Vertical Microdrama App
M6 Takes a Stake in Sweetz, France’s New AI-Powered Vertical Microdrama App AI production studio Nation and app publisher Kovalee launched Sweetz, a vertical short-series app now live on iOS after beta, alongside a €1 million round whose investors include M6 Group, German producer BriskPace Unlimited and French producers TOG, Duo Productions Holding and AT Prod. Nation cites a $22 billion ex-China vertical drama market by 2030; Sweetz is France's second vertical-drama app after Storyshort and pairs the consumer app with a hybrid AI production pipeline, with details of the M6 partnership to be outlined soon.
-
France and South Korea Pledge €1 Billion as Macron’s Lumière Summit Presses Big Tech
France and South Korea Pledge €1 Billion as Macron’s Lumière Summit Presses Big Tech At the first Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France and South Korea each committed €500 million to fund screen industries from 2027 to 2031, while 120 states, studios and media groups signed a Lumière Declaration covering investment in human creativity, anti-piracy measures and copyright-protective AI. Macron separately called on YouTube to contribute to content financing, and RTL Group joined Netflix and Mediawan in an 18-month CNC-led mentoring programme starting January 2027.
-
Kaltura Cloud TV Goes Live at Bouygues Telecom, Serving 18 Million French Households
Kaltura Cloud TV Goes Live at Bouygues Telecom, Serving 18 Million French Households Kaltura and systems integrator Aurora Networks switched on Kaltura Cloud TV at Bouygues Telecom on 8 September, consolidating several legacy IPTV platforms onto a single cloud platform serving an estimated 18 million households, with support for 4 million set-top boxes to launch next. The go-live completes the migration begun with Kaltura's 2023 selection, spans set-top boxes, mobile and smart TVs for 5.5 million fixed-network customers, and lands three days before IBC 2026.
-
Videoland Architect Peter van der Vorst Exits DPG Media With Immediate Effect
Videoland Architect Peter van der Vorst Exits DPG Media With Immediate Effect Peter van der Vorst, content director of RTL Nederland and Videoland since 2019 and, from December 2025, director of content and strategy for DPG Media's television and streaming operations in the Netherlands and Belgium, is leaving the company with immediate effect after a months-long sabbatical. Under his leadership RTL 4 posted the highest market shares in its history and Videoland grew into the Netherlands' largest local streaming service, with hits including Mocro Maffia, Máxima and the globally formatted De Verraders.
