Joel Marino

LONDON: Industry veteran Erik Huggers, who currently serves as president and CEO of Vevo, is set to deliver a keynote at the upcoming IBC2016 Conference.

BARCELONA: Industry veteran Javier Pons has been tapped to join Globomedia as its director general.

European online advertising has surpassed TV, with a record annual spend of 36.2 billion euros ($41.4 billion) in 2015, according to IAB Europe. The report found marked growth in mobile and video adspend across all surveyed territories, with more than 30 billion euros ($35 billion) in spend added within the last decad

LONDON: Global multiplatform network Rightster is re-launching worldwide as Brave Bison.

For the first ever time, it’s expected that Britons will spend more this year on video-streaming subscriptions and content downloads than on buying and renting DVDs, according to Strategy Analytics. Online formats will account for 58 percent of home video spend, compared to 42 percent for DVDs, whose share last year was 52 percent.

LONDON: BBC has extended its deal with World Snooker and will continue to broadcast three of the sport’s biggest tournaments until the end of the 2018-19 season.

LUXEMBOURG: Zee TV has partnered with SES Platform Services to launch a new Indian TV channel in Germany by mid-year.

LONDON: Independent outfit CPL Productions has struck a joint-venture deal with comedian Harry Hill to launch Nit TV, which already has projects slated for Sky and BBC.

About 25 percent of Europeans between the ages of 15 and 24 intentionally use illegal sources to access digital content, with films and TV series being the most pilfered type of content, according to a new report from the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).

PARIS: Vivendi is set to launch STUDIO+, a venture that will create exclusive, short-form series specifically for smartphones and tablets, available via a dedicated app.