Vodafone Spain is launching a new 4K TV service with five TV channels (10 by year end ) and VoD content for subscribers with convergent packages, like Vodafone One. The five new channels are Odisea 4K, Festival 4K, FunBox UHD, Insight TV and Slow Channel – and one 4K transmission of the best football match […]
TV ad revenue in the UK totalled £5.28 billion (€6.21bn) in 2016, up 0.2 per cent on 2015, according to full year revenue figures provided to Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – by the UK commercial TV broadcasters. This represents the seventh consecutive year that TV advertising revenue has […]
French commercial broadcaster M6 Group saw a record year in 2016 with ad revenues up 4.8 per cent on 2015 to €853 million – representing 66.7 per cent of the group’s total €1.279 billon revenues, up 2.3 per cent. Non-advertising revenues declined by 2.4 per cent to € 425.4 million, resulting from the financial drag of […]
The FTA TV duopoly of Mediaset and Atresmedia remains strong in Spain, with the groups controlling a combined 85.4 per cent of the TV ad share. The latest figures from Infoadex reveal both took €1.811 billion out of the total €2.122 billion TV ad revenues in 2016, up 5.5 per cent. Only €100 million went […]
Gracenote, a Nielsen company is launching what it describes as “breakthrough” entertainment data products developed specifically for next-generation converged media platforms and services. The all-new Gracenote connected databases for Video, Music and Sports enable global entertainment providers and smart device makers to leverage Gracenote data and IDs to power advanced voice and text search, intuitive […]
The latest global forecast from analyst firm CCS Insight for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) devices reflects the relatively slow start to this nascent market. However, CCS Insight continues to believe the segment holds great potential and can deliver healthy growth over the next five years and beyond. Sales of smartphone virtual reality […]
Growing preference for OTT content is catalysing demand for streaming media devices and Smart TVs, according to Global Smart TV and Streaming Media Devices Markets, Forecast to 2021, a part of Frost & Sullivan’s Digital Media Growth Partnership Service programme. The market, which slowed down during 2014-15 fiscal, is now ready to match consumer expectations […]
LG Electronics has announced the launch of its 2017 Super UHD TV lineup featuring Nano Cell display at its R&D Center in Seoul. Alongside the thin LG Signature OLED TV W first unveiled at CES in January 2017, LG has high hopes that its dual premium strategy for TVs will expand its market share in […]
India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) has reported that hundreds of channels are transmitting advertising breaks that exceed TRAI’s rules. TRAI has various limits in place for ad-breaks and found that 104 non-news channels were airing more than 12 minutes per hour. Another 23 news channels also exceeded these limits. Almost all of India’s Hindi-language channels […]