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CULVER CITY: Sony Pictures Television Networks (SPT Networks) is launching the Picture This Festival for the Environment, an international storytelling contest focused on the protection and preservation of the planet.

SHERMAN OAKS: GRB Entertainment has sold two of its factual titles, including Secret Guide to Fabulous, into Canada, in addition to licensing a cooking-competition format into Sweden.

Zenith’s Media Consumption Forecasts report finds that mobile internet consumption is now growing at the expense of all other media, including TV, which still dominates despite recent declines. The amount of time people around the world devote to using mobile internet is forecast to increase by 27.7 percent this year, driving a 1.4-percent increase in overall media consumption.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Partners has appointed a number of new executives in North and Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East in an effort to strengthen the company's global operations.

NEW YORK: Of all the new programs that debuted globally in May, HISTORY's Roots event series generated the most buzz on social media, according to The WIT.

NEW YORK: Maria Rørbye Rønn, the CEO and director general of Danish Broadcasting Corporation, will receive the 2016 International Emmy Directorate Award.

NEW YORK: Cris Abrego, co-chairman of Endemol Shine Americas and co-CEO of Endemol Shine North America, met with World Screen Newsflash’s Anna Carugati to share insight about the current landscape for scripted and unscripted programming.

Key findings in PwC’s latest five-year outlook on entertainment and media revenues, which points to “unprecedented challenges” for companies in this changing landscape, include internet advertising overtaking broadcast in the U.S. for the first time next year and China becoming the world’s box-office leader.

Revenues from OTT TV and video in Canada and the U.S. are forecast to reach $24.39 billion in 2021, according to Digital TV Research. This is up from the $2.67 billion in 2010 and $15.39 billion in 2015.

LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced cooperation agreements with 27 international sports federations to collaborate on content for the upcoming Olympic Channel.