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Ampere: Asia-Pacific Overtakes US and Europe in Streamer Scripted Commissions
Ampere: Asia-Pacific Overtakes US and Europe in Streamer Scripted Commissions For the first time, Asia-Pacific generated the largest share of first-run scripted orders from global streamers — 36% in H1 2026, with 70 commissions against North America’s 46 and Western Europe’s 44, led by Amazon’s multi-language push in India and Netflix in South Korea. The milestone confirms global content investment is rebalancing away from the US and Europe.
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Deutsche Telekom Reshuffles Leadership: New CFO, AWS Executive Takes Product and Technology
Deutsche Telekom Reshuffles Leadership: New CFO, AWS Executive Takes Product and Technology CFO Christian Illek retires after the April 2027 AGM, succeeded by group controlling head Dhananjay Mirchandani, while AWS vice president Jan Hofmeyr — who previously ran Comcast’s X1 platform — joins the board for Product & Technology on 1 November 2026 and Mladen Mitic becomes Chief Product & Digital Officer in October. Europe’s largest telco is putting a platform-and-cloud profile at the top of its product organisation.
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InterDigital Wins Third UPC Injunction Against Disney, Covering Germany and the Netherlands
InterDigital Wins Third UPC Injunction Against Disney, Covering Germany and the Netherlands The Unified Patent Court’s Düsseldorf division ruled Disney infringes an InterDigital patent on seamless video handoff between devices, granting a third injunction, this one covering Germany and the Netherlands; Disney can appeal. The ruling extends InterDigital’s licensing campaign against Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu spanning the US, Brazil and multiple UPC divisions.
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Prime Video and DAZN Carve Up US Local Sports as Victory+ Collapses
Prime Video and DAZN Carve Up US Local Sports as Victory+ Collapses Amazon took exclusive local streaming rights to six more NHL teams while Victory+ shut down, terminated its staff and entered receivership after failing to pay rights fees — the Dallas Stars say they were owed 98% of theirs. DAZN added the San Antonio Spurs alongside Cleveland, and with the NBA and MLB planning centralised local hubs as soon as next year, many of these deals may run only one season.
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VodafoneThree Launches Vodafone TV, Bundling Netflix, HBO Max and Freely
VodafoneThree Launches Vodafone TV, Bundling Netflix, HBO Max and Freely VodafoneThree’s Vodafone TV, shipping in October on a Netgem-built 4K Android TV box, aggregates Freely’s 70+ live channels, Netflix and HBO Max subscriptions, 150+ additional channels, 300+ cloud games and AI-powered cross-service search. It makes VodafoneThree the only UK mobile operator bundling a full TV platform with mobile and broadband, backed by its £11 billion network build.
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German Voice Actors File Antitrust Complaint Against Netflix Over AI Clauses
German Voice Actors File Antitrust Complaint Against Netflix Over AI Clauses The Verband Deutscher Sprecher:innen asked the Bundeskartellamt to examine whether Netflix abuses market power by requiring dubbing actors to sign agreements consenting to unpaid AI training on their recordings, alongside a parallel data-protection complaint filed with Berlin’s DPA. Netflix has recast the voices of non-signers and previously threatened subtitles-only releases in Germany.
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Brightcove Unveils Gen 2, Its Largest Platform Overhaul in Years
Brightcove Unveils Gen 2, Its Largest Platform Overhaul in Years Brightcove’s Gen 2 bundles 22 product innovations and 30 platform enhancements around the redesigned Prism interface, Next-Gen Live, and an AI Agentic Hub that coordinates AI agents to manage metadata, workflows and video experiences from a conversational prompt. The Agentic Hub is live with selected production customers and gets its first public demo at IBC 2026.
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Accedo and MediaKind Launch Joint White-Label Streaming Platform for Operators
Accedo and MediaKind Launch Joint White-Label Streaming Platform for Operators Accedo and MediaKind combined Accedo’s application framework and cloud app management with MediaKind’s MK.IO platform into an end-to-end, white-label streaming stack for pay-TV operators, covering entitlements, CMS, discovery, security and delivery across Android STB, mobile, Fire TV, Apple TV, Roku, Samsung and web. Canadian operator Cogeco already runs its EPICO service on the stack, a second operator is committed, and a public demo is planned at IBC 2026.
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RTL Deutschland Puts Generative AI on Air in German Free-TV First
RTL Deutschland Puts Generative AI on Air in German Free-TV First RTL Deutschland becomes the first German broadcaster to air generative-AI-produced programming: five AI-modified episodes of “Ulrich Wetzel – Das Strafgericht”, made with Constantin Entertainment using image editing, voice synthesis and lip-sync, run from 7 September at 15:55. The “RTL bringt KI on Air” initiative moves the technology from workflow tooling into mainstream broadcast output.
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Google Escapes Ad Tech Breakup as Judge Orders Behavioural Remedies Only
Google Escapes Ad Tech Breakup as Judge Orders Behavioural Remedies Only Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected the DOJ’s demand that Google divest its AdX exchange and DFP ad server, ordering behavioural remedies instead: AdX must open real-time bids to rival ad servers, unified pricing rules are deprecated, and publishers gain per-bidder price floors. The April 2025 monopolisation finding stands, but the ad tech stack that underpins much of the ad-supported streaming supply chain stays intact under Google’s ownership.
