Within the next five years, viewership hours of live-linear streaming OTT video will surpass those of traditional broadcast TV, according to close to 70 per cent of respondents in the 2017 OTT Video Services Study by Level 3 Communications, Streaming Media and Unisphere Research. The third annual survey on OTT trends was based on responses […]
Sky Italia has launched Now TV Mobile, a service that enables customers to watch TV programmes on smartphones and tablets, including on demand. Subscribers can select from three “tickets” – Cinema (over 500 movies on demand), TV Series (including House of Cards, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead plus boxed sets) and Entertainment (shows, documentaries, […]
Multi-channel broadcaster UKTV has reported a record year for revenue, profit and viewership, with results for the year ending December 31st 2016 showing EBITDA growth of 11.3 per cent to £91.3 million (€108.9m), and revenue growth of 8 per cent to £344.8 million. “UKTV is delivering well against its strategy, with record profit, revenue, and […]
Spanish TV operator Atresmedia, owner of Antena 3 TV and La Sexta, has ended the first quarter of 2017 with a profit of €28.4 million, up 4.5 per cent. Total revenues reached €259 million to March 31st, up 5.3 per cent on the previous quarter largely due to the rise in TV revenues (to €230.6 […]
Research released by Kantar Media warns that, if the advertising industry doesn’t find a way to measure performance accurately and consistently, Proctor & Gamble’s threat to pull spend from digital advertising will be just the tip of the iceberg. Dimension, a new international study
BritBox, the subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) streaming service from BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC and UK commercial broadcaster ITV, which went live in the US in March 2017, has launched on streaming service Roku. After a seven-day free trial, BritBox is $6.99 (€6.52) per month and gives subscribers access to thousands of hours […]
Arianespace says that it has won the launch contract for an upcoming joint Intelsat (Horizons 3e) and SKY Perfect-JSAT satellite. Boeing is building the satellite and it should be ready for launch towards the end of 2018. The Horizons 3e portion of the joint-mission satellite will complete Intelsat’s global Epic network. The high-throughput satellite’s C-band […]
Global performance management company Nielsen has been named to Google’s Marketing Mix Model Partner programme. As a preferred partner, this programme enables Nielsen to collect Google advertising impression and spend data directly from Google in a standardised, granular and accurate way. Collectively, this
Encompass Digital Media, a global technology services company delivering end-to-end video playout and distribution solutions, has announced that Sony Pictures Television Networks has selected its CloudVOD platform and geographically diverse Digital Network Operations Centers (DNOC) to distribute VoD assets for Sony’s US channels, including getTV, Cine Sony, and Sony Movie Channel to major US multichannel […]
OTT TV platform Sling TV has become the first live and on-demand over-the-top (OTT) service available on LG Electronics’ line-up of smart TVs. Sling TV now supports most 2016 webOS 3.0 Smart TV models, and will be available on LG’s 2017 webOS 3.5 enabled-models in the coming months. LG joins more than 15 platforms currently […]