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Data: Consumer media usage grew 2.4% in 2024

Global consumer media usage, including digital and traditional media channels, increased 2.4 per cent in 2024 to an average of 57.2 hours per week, following a sharp deceleration in time spent with media growth in 2023, according to a market intelligence report from media econometrics specialist PQ Media. Growth in consumer media usage, including all […]

April 17, 2025

WBD Sports Europe expands climbing rights

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) Sports Europe and the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) have signed a new four-year agreement that will see all IFSC Climbing and Para Climbing World Cup and World Championship events continue to air to fans across Europe exclusively on Max and discovery+. Viewers will also be able to watch the […]

April 3, 2025

Little Dot Sport renews YouTube deal with Team GB

Content studio and digital media network, Little Dot Studios (an All3Media company), has announced a four-year extension of its YouTube agreement with Team GB, under its sports-specialist label, Little Dot Sport. The renewal follows a strong performance at Paris 2024, where the Team GB YouTube channel, managed by Little Dot Sport, outperformed all direct competitors, […]

April 2, 2025

WBD, Olympic Channel announce Tom Daley doc

A new documentary, Tom Daley: 1.6 Seconds, will tell the life story of five-time Olympic medallist Tom Daley OBE in a collaboration between Warner Bros Discovery and the Olympic Channel. Set to premiere on discovery+ in the UK and Ireland early June, broadcast on Really and TNT Sports later that month, the feature documentary film […]

March 17, 2025

Special Olympics Europe Eurasia renews partnership with Story10

Special Olympics Europe Eurasia (SOEE) has announced a renewed partnership with sports video production and distribution agency, Story10, to enhance the international reach and visibility of the Special Olympics World Winter Games Turin 2025. This collaboration builds on the success of the Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023, where Story10’s extensive distribution network helped bring […]

March 4, 2025

Forecast: Streamers to lead global content spend in 2025

Forecasts from Ampere Analysis predict that global content spend will increase by just 0.4 per cent year-on-year to reach $248 billion (€239.7bn) in 2025. This follows a 2 per cent growth in content investment in 2024 driven by increased ad spend on the US Presidential Election, the Paris Olympics, and the resolution of the 2023 […]

February 4, 2025

Infront to manage IOC Archive rights

Infront has reached an agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to manage the commercialisation of the IOC Archive. The deal covers more than 60,000 hours of audio-visual content from all Olympic events, from the first Games up until Paris 2024. The collaboration will run from 2025 to 2028 and will see a dedicated in-house […]

January 16, 2025

NBCUniversal kicks off road to 100th Anniversary

At CES, NBCUniversal previewed the future of full-funnel advertising for the industry, unveiling new engagement capabilities within its One Platform technology stack as well as success metrics that demonstrate the effectiveness of TV advertising. NBCUniversal said it will provide marketers with “unprecedented access to the biggest programming moments in the world”, leading up to its […]

January 7, 2025

TF1 streaming ad revenues up 40%

Despite a tough economic background and the success of the Olympic Games on fellow PSB France Télévisions, commercial broadcaster TF1 has reported a rise in its ad revenues over the first nine months of 2024, driven by streaming activities. TF1 Group has posted a consolidated revenue of €1.59 billion for the first nine months, a […]

October 31, 2024From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Cuckoo provides funding for GB Bobsleigh

Cuckoo, the broadband disruptor, has signed a sponsorship deal with British Bobsleigh. Cuckoo’s sponsorship last year supported the most successful season yet for British Bobsleigh, also known as Team Baird due to pilot, team manager, and Royal Marine commando Adam Baird. Thirty years after the Jamaican Bobsleigh film Cool Runnings premiered, Cuckoo hopes to be […]

October 10, 2024