By Danielle Long iQiyi has inked a content streaming deal with Viacom International to stream Nickelodeon content on its entertainment platform. The multi-year deal will provide iQiyi with the rights to stream Mandarin and English Nickelodeon programs in mainland China for programs such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Top Wing, Rusty Rivets and Rise of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The deal builds on the two entertainment companies previous deal in 2017 which gave iQiyi exclusive streaming rights to Nickelodeon programs Shimmer and Shine and Blaze and the Monster Machines. Geng Danhao, senior vice president of iQiyi, said, “As iQiyi seeks to expand our selection of high quality children’s Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy Taruka Srivastav Mozilla is rebranding its Firefox brand and is asking people for feedback to evolve its various offerings. According to Mozilla blog, that fast fox with a flaming tail as an icon doesn’t offer enough design tools to represent Mozilla’s entire product family. Since Mozilla doesn’t want to recolor the existing logo and dissect the Firefox, it is working across traditional silos and is designing a system to guide people with its in-product experiences. Mozilla design team has come up with two design system for feedback – Loading… The criteria listed by Mozilla to evaluate the work Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy Taruka Srivastav American sitcom, Friends powered ahead of ‘The Crown’ and ‘The Grand Tour’ to become the most popular show on paid-for streaming platforms in the UK. The survey, conducted by Ofcom, further highlighted how Friends episodes had twice as many episodes streamed in the first three months of 2018. ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘Peaky Blinders’ occupied the fourth and fifth spot respectively. Meanwhile, the top 10 titles in Q1 2018 were dominated by Netflix; four in 10 shows were Netflix originals. However, only five of the top 20 shows originated in the UK. Peaky Blinders was the only PSB-commissioned programme to make the Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy Stephen Lepitak UKTV and Virgin Media have settled their dispute which will see the return of channels and services to the Virgin TV package. The pricing dispute, which ultimately saw UKTV pull its channels, has been resolved and Virgin will be able to offer the full range of services once again immediately, it has said. Channels include; Gold, Alibi and Yesterday. Other services provided by UKTV will include High Definition (HD) programming via Dave HD and Gold HD channels which will be added to the bundle as well as five times more on demand and catch-up content. Simon Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy The Drum Talking about the latest marketing technology in order to make sense of it for brands and agencies to apply it through his podcast ‘Shiny New Object’ is Tom Ollerton, AI consultant and the former innovation director at We Are Social. In this latest installment, Simon Kemp, founder & CEO, Kepios offers his thoughts on latest innovations in the business. Kemp talks about artificial intelligence and empathy as his object making an impact in the marketing sector. Each episode of Shiny New Object will be distributed in partnership with The Drum and can be followed by subscribing through the Apple podcast Read full story › Source: The Drum...
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