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The four biggest shows on Netflix in the first half of 2024 hailed from the UK, according to the streaming service’s latest biannual viewing report.

ITV has launched two new TV ads which have been created using Generative AI.

The French Tennis Federation (FFT) has appointed UK production company Whisper as the new host broadcaster of the Paris-based Roland-Garros Grand Slam for the next five editions of the tournament, running from 2025 to 2029.

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios has joined global trade association the Motion Picture Association (MPA), which represents the world’s largest film, TV and streaming companies by advocating for policies to protect creators and content.

Film London and Creative Zero have launched a new report taking an in-depth look at decarbonising supplier transport and mobile power for London’s Film and TV industry.

Qvest has launched the new version of clipbox, its studio server designed for ingest and playout.

Netint Technologies has announced a partnership with cloud specialist Akamai to integrate Netint’s video processing units (VPUs) into Akamai’s massively distributed cloud platform.

Video technology provider Accedo has announced a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Brightcove and New Relic to support its dedicated OTT managed service that it said is designed to reduce complexity and risk for OTT service providers.

Comcast is deploying Qwilt’s open edge platform in order to support its distributed content delivery network (CDN) in the United States.

Streaming video is everywhere today – from subscription services packed with movies and TV episodes to social media, work memes, and clips shared with friends and family. This poses a problem for mobile network operators, whose networks were not originally built to handle the bandwidth level that streaming video requires, as well as video service providers, who are seeing their streams throttled by networks unable to keep up with the data required, leading to unhappy viewers.