A study from Juniper Research has found that the popularity of Pokémon GO is inspiring app developers to incorporate AR technologies into their applications. It forecasts that the AR market will rise to 2.3 billion apps by 2021, representing a 380 per cent increase from an estimated 482 million in 2016. The launch of the […]
This week is the start of the ‘Big Three’ results season. October 27th sees Intelsat and Eutelsat numbers unveiled, while on October 28th SES reveals its latest quarterly results. The news on each of the three is not exactly glowing. Intelsat, despite some financial restructuring is still heavily burdened by debt, and there is some […]
The OTT and VoD Video Advertising market in Italy will grow above 30 per cent this year, representing one fourth of total online advertising, according to figures published by Interactive Advertising Bureau Italia. This compares to 2015, when the Video Advertising market was worth €364 million (+25 per cent on 2014) and accounted for 21 […]
The Board of the English Football Association (FA) has ratified what is described as a “hugely significant” overseas broadcast rights deal that will ensure The Emirates FA Cup’s status as the world’s original and greatest domestic cup competition. After an extremely competitive bidding process for the international rights to televise The Emirates FA Cup for […]
Pirate DTT channels are proliferating in the South of Spain with 66 per cent of all DTT stations in the region of Andalucia being illegal. The Andalucia Audiovisual Council (CAA) has revealed that up to 124 local DTT stations in the region out of 198 are operating without a legal licence. The number of
French telco Orange has reported accelerated growth in 3rd quarter revenue and restated EBITDA, driven by very high-speed broadband and convergence. The Group said it achieved a solid commercial performance in the 3rd quarter of 2016, driven by, with 845,000 net mobile contract additions and 348,000 additional fibre customers. There were 25.5 million 4G customers […]
The DTG hosted the inaugural meeting of the Implementation Group for Future PMSE Audio last month. Attended by DTG Members including BBC, Ofcom, Sky and Sony the meeting reflected a broad range of opinion and Mark Waddell, Lead R&D Engineer at the BBC was unanimously elected as Chair of the Group. Programme Making and Special […]
The season 7 premiere of The Walking Dead on October 24th has given Fox UK its biggest ever series launch and is on track to become the highest rated show since the channel began in 2004. Some 1.43 million tuned in to watch the premiere episode, via the simulcast at 2:30am or the show’s traditional […]
Amsterdam-based factual entertainment channel INsightTV is launching in Ultra-HD over North America. INsight TV is the latest in a series of channels to join SES’s 4K Ultra HD distribution neighbourhood aboard their satellites (SES-1, SES-3 and AMC-18) located at the centre of the orbital arc over the region. INsight TV launched in Europe in UHD […]
Brazil’s capital city, Brasilia, will switch off its analogue TV signals on October 26th. The nation’s Minister of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications, Gilberto Kassab, confirmed that the analogue switch off now that at least 93 per cent of local homes are now equipped for digital TV. “All numbers are very favourable and demonstrate that […]