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DISH wins pirate IPTV court case​

A US federal court has ruled that the owners of the Lool IPTV service unlawfully streamed international television channels to users in the United States in violation of rights held by pay-TV operator DISH. As part of the ruling, the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas ordered a $1,050,000 (€980,000) judgement in […]

April 19, 2017By Colin Mann

TV’s ad bucket is leaking

The near-5 million new Netflix subscribers reported this week (and taking its overall total to 100 million this coming weekend) is another indicator that ‘conventional’ advertising supported linear TV is under extreme pressures. Add in the drift of advertising from TV to online video, digital, social media and mobile, and there are plenty of elements in […]

April 19, 2017

Arianespace 2017 launch plans in tatters

This past Easter weekend saw many of the informal roadblocks in French Guiana lifted so that residents could do some essential food shopping. But the barriers stayed firmly in place on the main road from the capital Cayenne to the French space centre at Kourou, forcing a total close-down of activities at the Arianespace launch […]

April 19, 2017By Chris Forrester

Grey Juice Lab enters US VoD market

Grey Juice Lab is entering the US VoD market with the opening of a new office in Los Angeles. The company, which builds, curates and manages tailored VoD services for operators across the globe, will kick off its move to the US with a presence at the NAB Show next week. The new office is […]

April 19, 2017

WATCH: Targetted advertising roundtable

TV advertising still generates $175bn worldwide and fuels many FTA networks. Now the oldest form of TV revenue is needed to monetize the OTT services of broadcasters and pay-TV operators. The audience is, by its very nature, fragmented but the data generated by OTT should provide the information to target ads right down to individuals. […]

April 18, 2017

Netflix up, but down

Netflix has released its latest subscriber numbers for Q1 2017, which showed growth of 1.42 million US subs and 3.53 million international. This 4.95 million total is good, but it falls short of Netflix’s own projections for the first quarter of 5.2 million. The failure to deliver hit Netflix’s share price which initially fell 3 […]

April 18, 2017By Chris Forrester

Netflix: ‘Next 100m subs far more likely mobile viewers’

With Netflix CEO Reed Hastings advising shareholders that the streaming service expects to cross the 100 million-member mark this weekend, Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer, has suggested that the next 100 million subscribers are going to be far more likely to be watching content on mobile than the first 100 million. Speaking during Netflix’s Q1 […]

April 18, 2017By Colin Mann

comScore expands Facebook partnership

comScore has announced the introduction of Facebook demographic metrics to the validated Campaign Essentials (vCE) campaign measurement suite. Beginning next month, vCE will include measurement of both display and video ads that run on desktop and mobile platforms on Facebook, Instagram and the Facebook Audience Network. The availability of these new metrics – including demographics, […]

April 18, 2017

Palestine gets free Arabsat satellite transmission

The 40th meeting of Arabsat’s general assembly in Muscat, Oman, which wrapped on April 13th, agreed to exempt the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) from any fees or debts for using Arabsat’s satellites. Ahmad Assaf, chairman of the PBC, who headed the Palestinian delegation to the Arabsat meeting, thanked the assembly for their support for Palestine […]

April 18, 2017By Chris Forrester

Florida hits satellite viewing with higher tax

Florida residents must pay a higher tax if viewing programming from satellite rather than cable TV. The Florida Supreme Court made the ruling on April 13th and overturned an earlier court decision that tax rates for satellite or cable viewing should be the same. Both DirecTV and Dish Network had initially sued the state (back […]

April 18, 2017By Chris Forrester