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Antenna, a data firm tracking subscriptions in streaming and other sectors, has wrapped a $10 million Series A funding round, with backers including UTA Ventures and Dick Parsons’ Imagination Capital.

A former coal Bing to the south of Falkirk is set to be transformed into a new community leisure location, thanks to a funding boost.

New funding has been provided to make more historical discoveries of a Lanarkshire village.

An “unfathomable” decision to slash £2million of funding for West Dunbartonshire’s most deprived children has been slammed as new stark figures revealed the attainment gap is widening.

Pupils in Hamilton have had their say on how funding should be spent in their schools.

Young Craigneuk bikers were back on track last week thanks to some National Lottery funding.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSpotter, a two-year-old startup that acquires rights to the video catalogs of YouTubers, announced $200 million in new funding led by Japan’s SoftBank. Spotter said that gives it a valuation of $1.7 billion — and will let the company invest $1 billion with YouTube creators.The Series D in financing from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 follows the $555 million in funding Spotter raised across three previously undisclosed rounds of financing.

Uprooted,” which investigates the 1986 unsolved hanging death of Keith Warren, a 19-year-old Black man from Silver Spring, Md. But nobody wanted the project. Then, after George Floyd was murdered in May 2020, Speaks and McDonough began receiving phone calls.“Suddenly people came out of the woodwork and were interested and wanted to have a conversation about making the series,” Speaks recalls.

Anna Marie de la Fuente It’s a new dawn for Chile’s audiovisual industry. When Gabriel Boric, Chile’s youngest (at 35) and most left-leaning president since Salvador Allende, was elected in December, his pledge to more than double the state’s contribution to the arts was greeted with great fanfare.  After all, Chile’s prodigious film output this past decade has been remarkable despite the scant public support it has received. “If everything we have achieved in the last 10 years was done with so little money, imagine what we can achieve with an increase in audiovisual funding!” says Constanza Arena, executive director of Chile’s film promotion org, CinemaChile.In recent years, Chile has triumphed at the Oscars, starting when Pablo Larraín’s “No” was nominated for international feature in 2012, and culminating in an Oscar win for Sebastian Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman” in 2017.

East Kilbride MSP, Collette Stevenson, has welcomed a funding boost to help protect bus services.

More than £200 million of funding is expected to come to the Scottish Government from the UK Treasury to offset the huge rise in energy bills.

Yacht Club Games – the developer of Shovel Knight – newest title has already exceeded its Kickstarter goal after less than 24 hours.The indie developers announced a new game last night (January 1) and simultaneously opened up its Kickstarter funding only for the goal to be exceeded by the next morning.A requested total of around £230,000 has already been surpassed, and as of publication around £265,000 has been raised with 29 days left for backers to pledge.Called Mina The Hollower, this new game aims to emulate the 8-bit aesthetic of Game Boy Colour titles like Link’s Awakening, whilst running at 60 FPS and in widescreen.A series of stretch goals have also been announced for Mina The Hollower, now that it has reached its funding goal. Some of the tiers include a copy of the game, a CD of the soundtrack, and official pin, a design works book and even the opportunity to help design an NPC.“The biggest risk is that Mina the Hollower may take longer than anticipated,” said the developers in a post.

K.J. Yossman The British Film Institute (BFI) will fund wellbeing facilitators on all projects that it backs, the organization confirmed today.

The tentative agreement for a new three-year film and TV contract covering Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 and the Basic Crafts includes higher wages, more overtime penalties and additional money for benefits to secure their pension and health plan. And for the first time, the new contract includes a budget-based new-media deal that eliminates the lowest rung on the pay scale.

Spire Animation Studios has closed a $20 million funding round that includes a strategic investment from Epic Games. It said the fresh funds are earmarked for staff expansion, studio technology and infrastructure build out and creative development. Epic will also join Spire’s board of directors.

Rochdale and Wigan could be in line for most arts funding, a government paper has revealed.

North Lanarkshire Council's administration is demanding an additional £4m from the Scottish Government to meet the cost of a forthcoming national insurance increase.

The future of the northern body which drives forward transport reform hangs in the balance amid a Government failure to confirm future funding.

Glasgow residents face a whopping 40 per cent price hike for parking permits if a proposal by a council department is accepted.

A Lanarkshire train station is on track for a transformation, thanks to a funding boost.

The AFL-CIO’s Department for Professional Employees is urging Congress to increase federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to $565 million in fiscal year 2022 and the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities to $201 million each – funding levels that were passed by the House of Representatives in July.