More than 5.2 million people (10 per cent of the UK adult population) already subscribe to paid music streaming services and half of these subscribers don’t plan to ever buy a CD again, according to research findings published by YouGov and Zuora, a provider of subscription commerce, billing and finance solutions. Music streaming revenues in […]
Asia Media Exchange (AsiaMX) has announced that a slew of regional and local TV channels from Southeast Asia have signed up to offer their premium advertising assets on its programmatic TV exchange. Advertisers now have access to $500 million in programmatic advertising assets via AsiaMX . Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific is one of the latest to list, […]
German interactive teleshopping broadcaster, 1-2-3.tv has extended its contract with global media services company, MX1, and will continue to rely on its services for several more years. MX1 is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the satellite operator, SES, formed out of the merger of RR Media and SES Platform Services. 1-2-3.tv offers a wide range of […]
Broadcasters are facing the prospect of the worst year for TV advertising since the recession of 2009, as uncertainty over Brexit has seen companies take more than £400 million (€446m) from marketing budgets. Before the UK voted to leave the European Union in the summer, analysts had predicted another propsperous year for the TV ad […]
Viewers are watching more content on mobile as viewing time moves closer to parity with fixed TV viewing, Ericsson’s latest ConsumerLab research. Revealed at MIPCOM, Ericsson’s latest study said the ratio between viewing on fixed screens and mobile screens is close to 60:40 this year compared to almost 70:30 in 2010. Anders Erlandsson, senior advisor, […]
Sony Pictures Television Networks has taken a minority stake in global pre-school SVoD platform Hopster, becoming a strategic equity investor and taking a seat on the company’s Board. The investment complements SPT Networks’ growing kid’s portfolio, particularly in the UK, where SPT Networks’ linear and AVoD services include POP, Tiny Pop and Kix, which make […]
Nigeria’s Federal Government has said it could potentially raise a digital dividend of $1 billion from the sale of spectrum as it rolls out digitisation of broadcasting in the country. Speaking at the opening of Africast 2016 in Abuja, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said that digitisation of broadcasting offered the country a […]
Paris-based ClubbingTV is about to shift to Ultra-HD and launch two linear channels in UHD. One service will be provided on Eutelsat’s Hot Bird satellite over Europe, while the other will be hosted by SES for North American distribution. The channels go ‘live’ on November 1st in UHD. The channel is widely distributed on French […]
Freesat, the UK’s subscription free satellite TV service, has announced the addition of STV Player to its On Demand line up. Available to Freesat viewers in Scotland immediately and the rest of the UK from October 20th, STV Player offers catch up and live streaming access to programmes from ITV, including Coronation Street, The X […]
Video inventory management platform SpotX and BrightLine, a specialist in advanced TV and OTT advertising, have joined forces to accelerate the automated purchasing workflow of advanced TV ads across millions of US households. The integration between SpotX and BrightLine will empower publishers to automate the sales of personalised, household-addressable advanced ad units within connected TV […]