Innovid, the video marketing platform for advertisers to engage consumers across all screens and channels, has announced the release of its 2017 Global Video Benchmarks Report. The report details findings from a year-long study analysing thousands of video campaigns with billions of impressions across 200+ global brands. The goal of the Global Video Benchmarks series […]
Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos is developing the Blue Origin rocket system to send satellites into orbit (and potentially humans looking for space tourism) but on May 14th it suffered a set-back when one of its BE-4 engines failed during a routine ground-based test firing. The Blue Origin team sent out a Tweet that the rocket […]
Netflix has announced its first Australian original series Tidelands, a supernatural crime drama that will debut exclusively on Netflix around the globe. Production will start in Queensland in 2018. The series is produced for Netflix by Brisbane-based Hoodlum Entertainment. The ten-episode first season will be written by creator Stephen M. Irwin (Secrets & Lies). Episodes […]
SpaceX launched what is claimed as its heaviest-ever satellite on May 15th when a Falcon 9 rocket lofted an Inmarsat craft into orbit. London-based Inmarsat-5 F4 (5th generation, flight 4) is one of the company’s Global Xpress constellation and is the fourth craft in this fleet. This launch took the satellite into a geostationary transfer […]
ATEME has announced that České Radiokomunikace, a provider of digital infrastructure and the largest Czech service provider, has deployed its compression and statistical multiplexing (statmux) solutions for the company’s DVB-T2 HEVC services. České Radiokomunikace’s new HEVC statmux headend uses ATEME’s TITAN full-software solution to deliver more than 15 channels in one DVB-T2 multiplex across the […]
Forecasts from the Global Pay-TV Subscriber Forecasts report from Digital TV Research suggest a total of 134 million additional pay-TV subscribers between 2016 and 2022 to take the total 1.09 billion. Based on forecasts for 138 countries, the number of pay-TV subscribers will pass the 1 billion mark in early 2018. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst […]
Italy’s Atlantia, perhaps better known as highway operator Autostrade per l’Italia, is expected to imminently be making an offer to buy Spanish infrastructure business Abertis. One of the Abertis investments is a major 57 per cent stake in Spanish satellite operator Hispasat. The overall deal is reportedly worth more than €15 billion, and in the […]
Apple is set to announce that Amazon Prime Video will be available on Apple TV at its annual developer’s conference, Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), next month. A stand-off has seen Amazon’s Prime Video long absent on the Apple TV platform, although there is a version available on both the iPhone and iPad. In exchange for […]
Two of India’s largest DTH pay-TV operators, TataSky and Airtel Digital TV, have lodged actions against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) arguing that new tariff and interconnection regulations laid out by TRAI on March 3rd are unfair. The operators’ main complaint is that TRAI’s proposed rules treat “unequals as equals” and requires the […]
Canadian multiplay operator Bell has launched Fibe Alt TV, which it describes as a completely new way to watch live and on-demand television. With no traditional TV subscription or set-top box required, Alt TV is accessed through the Fibe TV app and offers up to 500 channels on the screen of your choice. “The ways […]