ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery have revealed plans to build a local streaming platform in Germany by integrating 7TV, maxdome and Eurosport Player in one place. The OTT platform will offer a full entertainment package of live streams, an extensive media library with local content, the best from Hollywood, as well as high-quality sports content. The future […]
Pay-TV is gaining momentum in Spain both in terms of subscribers and of advertising revenues. Research from Zenith forecasts a 6.2 per cent growth in pay-TV ad revenues this year versus 3.4 per cent in FTA TV. The total TV ad revenue in the country is likely to reach €12.54 billion, up 2.1 per cent […]
Saudi Arabia’s chairman of its General Sports Authority, Turki al-Sheikh, has accused Qatar’s beIN Sports Group, which controls the TV rights to the World Cup over the Middle East region, of unfairness. Al-Sheikh was meeting the head of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, and called on the FIFA boss “not to allow Al-Jazeera network, which sponsors and […]
Thailand start-up business mu Space Corp has issued a Request for Proposals to the world’s main satellite builders for its own geostationary satellite to operate from 50.5 degrees East, in an association with SES. SES operates its NSS-5 craft from the orbital position although the location was seen at the time (in 2012) as being […]
GoMedia, the onboard infotainment systems developer for rail and coach operators, has announced UKTV as its newest content partner. Passengers on West Midlands Railways’ trains can now enjoy shows from UKTV Play, the broadcaster’s on-demand service. The content update brings more than 300 episodes of programmes from the network’s Dave, Really and Yesterday channels. Programmes […]
Findings from analyst firm Parks Associates’ OTT Video Market Tracker suggest that more than 85 per cent of millennials in US broadband households subscribe to at least one OTT video service. “Overall penetration of subscription OTT video services among millennials has topped out, suggesting that those households that want such a subscription already have one […]
Colin Browne, Chairman of Voice of the Listener and Viewer, a British consumer group which champions public service broadcasting, has warned that the forthcoming World Radiocommunication Conference poses a threat to the future of public service broadcasters should spectrum currently used for terrestrial broadcasting be allocated to services such as mobile, calling on government and […]
YouTube has rolled out new monetisation and engagement features for users who upload content to its video-sharing website. Speaking at the VidCon 2018 conference in California, YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan revealed that the Google-owned streaming platform aims to help YouTubers monetise their content through means other than advertising. The first of these features […]
A total of 2.2 million individuals above 15 years old have connected to a SVoD service each day on average over the last six months, according to the barometer set up by advisory and research companies NPA Conseil and Harris Interactive. In early June, the level was even higher than the average observed since the […]
The BBC is reaching a record weekly audience of 376 million people, new figures published today reveal. The GAM (Global Audience Measure) shows how many adults the BBC reached weekly with its news and entertainment content in the year 2017/18. The BBC World Service, which has just undertaken its biggest expansion since the 1940s, has […]