▶️🚀 Media segment drives Yandex
Yandex has announced its financial results for Q3 2025. The media segment is providing the company with a stable growth lever and user engagement, strengthening the entire ecosystem.
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💰 Former Sony Pictures entity wins lawsuit against Cinema Park
The Moscow Arbitration Court has ruled to recover 471.6 million rubles from Russia’s largest cinema chain, Cinema Park, in favor of LLC “Content Club”—the former representation of the Hollywood studio Sony Pictures.
🇬🇧 UK shift to Internet TV is moving too fast
A report in The Observer warns that the UK government’s (DCMS) plans for a complete shift to internet streaming and the shutdown of terrestrial TV are proceeding too quickly.
🛒 Russian marketplaces aim for leadership in CTV
Russian marketplaces could become key players in the Connected TV (CTV) niche—televisions connected to the internet.
🆕 Mediabaza launches Disk, transforms into a video content "Factory"
The B2B video content and services marketplace Mediabaza continued its transformation by launching Mediabaza Disk—a high-performance cloud storage solution. This creates a unified ecosystem for the media market, combining storage, production, compliance checking, and distribution of video content.
📏 Scientists find that more pixels doesn't mean a better image
Researchers from Cambridge University and Meta Reality Labs have reported that the human eye has a measurable “resolution limit,” beyond which increasing pixel density (4K, 8K) does not provide a noticeable image improvement.
🇬🇧 UK YouTube users prefer US content
According to data from Digital I, YouTube users in the UK watch less local content in the Entertainment, Gaming, and News & Politics categories than audiences in other key countries.
🇮🇹📺 Smart TVs account for 40% of TV viewing in Italy
According to a Sensemakers study, nearly 40% of all TV viewing in Italy occurs on connected devices. There are over 22 million Smart TVs in the country’s households, accounting for more than 50% of all television sets.
🆖 Ericsson, Nokia, and HHI create codec for 6G
European technology giants Ericsson and Nokia have partnered with the German Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) to develop and promote a new video coding standard that will define the media landscape in the 6G era.
🤏 Micro-Dramas take over social media
According to research by Ampere Analysis, over 10% of internet users have watched episodes of drama series lasting less than 10 minutes on social networks.