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Australians last week watched a record 175 million minutes of broadcast-TV content on mobiles, laptops, tablets and other connected devices, with home-grown dramas proving a particularly popular genre, according to official OzTAM Video Player Measurement (VPM) figures.

LONDON: Turner Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has appointed Pedro Cosa to the newly created role of VP of insights and analytics.

BOSTON: Strategy Analytics is forecasting that the Asia-Pacific region will overtake North America this year to become the world's biggest market for digital advertising spend.

BEVERLY HILLS: Starz is scheduled to launch its app on the Roku platform starting July 17, making available original series such as Outlander and Power on Roku players and TVs.

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has renewed its family drama Bloodline for a third season, while also greenlighting a Kathy Bates-starring comedy from The Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre.

NEW YORK: John Schmidt, Content Media’s CEO, tells World Screen Newsflash that further geographic expansion and a continued emphasis on premium scripted and nonfiction fare are the primary areas of focus for the company.

SYDNEY: A new agreement between Screen Producers Australia (SPA) and the union representing Australian performers (Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance or MEAA) provides broadcasters greater flexibility to schedule and promote Australian programs than ever before.

LONDON: ITV is selling UTV Ireland to Virgin Media, which will also take over a ten-year program supply agreement with ITV Studios Global Entertainment.

GENEVA: The EBU has revealed the nominees for the 55th annual Rose d’Or Awards, which span six categories for television and online video: reality and factual entertainment, game show, comedy, sitcom, entertainment and, new for 2016, drama series.

BEVERLY HILLS: WME-IMG is set to acquire the MMA organization UFC in a deal valued at $4 billion.