Parks Associates has released its updated top 10 list for US subscription OTT video services, based on number of subscribers, with Netflix retaining its top position while services Sling TV, Showtime, and CBS moved up or entered the list over the past year. Parks Associates’ list of top 10 OTT video services, ranked by number […]
The audio-visual landscape is changing when analysed from a young adult’s perspective (15-34 years), reports French audience measurement company Mediametrie. This target audience spends less time in front of the television than the rest of the population. However, what is especially interesting is that they do not necessarily watch the same channels and programmes as […]
Eutelsat Communications has published data on trends shaping Italy’s TV landscape where average viewing of linear content is the highest in Western Europe, at four hours and 40 minutes per person per day. Using research commissioned from TNS, the Eutelsat TV Observatory shows that satellite reception continues to consolidate its place in Italy’s TV market, […]
Italian free-to-air DTH platform TivùSat has added Mezzo to its channel line-up. Mezzo is broadcast in English and French and is exclusively dedicated to opera, classical music and jazz. Although Mezzo has so far been offered as a pay-TV channel in over 55 countries, in Italy it will be a FTA channel, albeit with a […]
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has released the first part of the CRTC’s 2016 Communications Monitoring Report showing how the viewing and listening habits of Canadians are transforming the broadcasting industry. Canadians are consuming more audio and video content on digital media and over devices connected to the Internet. Twenty percent of Canadians […]
Pakistan police and agents of the country’s media regulator started seizing ‘illegal’ DTH dishes and satellite set-top boxes in and around the capital Islamabad. The Associated Press of Pakistan news agency, and reported by BBC Monitoring, says the inspection teams confiscated 1762 “illegal instruments” in their raids. The equipment was being used in “illegal business” […]
Video hosting platform Dailymotion has selected OTT video optimisation specialist Streamroot’s patented peer-to-peer delivery technology better to control cost and quality of service across the globe. It has implemented the plugin-free solution – designed to help deliver its content more efficiently and scale profitably over the long run – on both live and VoD content. […]
Iranian news service FARS is reporting that Eutelsat is in discussions with Iran’s Space Agency in order to build a satellite for the country. “Eutelsat seeks cooperation with the Iranian Space Agency and is preparing a draft of its proposals to participate in the tender to build a satellite” for Iran, Francois Senemaud said during […]
AT&T has indicated it will use its proposed $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner to build a digital video platform to take on Netflix. Randall Stephenson, AT&T chief executive, said that owning content from HBO, Time Warner’s critically-acclaimed premium network, and Warner Bros, Hollywood’s largest studio, would allow AT&T to move more quickly as it […]
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 […]