India’s fast growing – and US-backed – pay-TV broadcaster Videocon d2h say it intends investing as much as $1 billion (€0.89bn) over the next 5 years to boost its position in the Indian market. Videocon Group chairman Venugopal Dhoot says the company’s $325 million share placing received positive response in the US, leading to greater […]
@IBC 2015 Advanced Television hears from Doug Lowther, CEO of Irdeto, about its platform approach to security – protection not just for video but across the service provider’s portfolio, including the Smart Home applications and Internet Of Things. [bitsontherun IhAPUYEz-ni7dlelE]
Wurl, a US streaming video platform for pay-TV, has published a new video index that compares the usage of major video viewing services based on publicly available data. The index, referred to as “AMOV”, measures the average minutes
Last Thursday saw a private meeting between Vincent Bolloré, chairman of Canal Plus, and the French media regulator, Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA). Reportedly he told the CSA that his flagship channel, Canal Premium, generated only about €20 million in EBITA in 2014. The news was carried in Le Figaro. This prompted a flash note […]
A detailed assessment of the subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) market by media analyst firm Ampere Analysis reveals what it describes as “impressive” figures for Netflix: 63 million paying subscribers at the end of Q2 2015, a presence in over 50 markets, and viewing times up 50 per cent in two years. Netflix is unequivocally
Italy’s media and entertainment industry will be worth €34.8 billion in 2019, up from €29.1 billion in 2014, with a 3.6 per cent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), according to the Entertainment & Media Outlook in Italy 2015-2019 from PwC. Of this total, €7.1 billion will come from advertising (CAGR 0.2 per cent), while €27.7 […]
CTC Media, Russia’s leading independent media company, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell a 75 per cent interest in its operating businesses to UTV-Management LLC, an affiliate of UTH Russia (UTH), a leading private commercial television broadcaster in Russia, for $200 million in cash. The transaction is being undertaken to ensure compliance with […]
Wurl, a streaming video platform for pay-TV, has introduced a new video index that compares the usage of major video viewing services based on publicly available data. The index – AMOV – measures the average minutes of viewing by US adults on each video platform, taking into account both usage (minutes of viewing) and reach […]
Scores for network performance and reliability have improved, the number of U.S. households connected to digital service has grown and satisfaction has increased across wireline offerings, according to three new US wireline studies: the J.D. Power 2015 U.S. Residential Television Service Provider Satisfaction Study; the J.D. Power 2015 U.S. Residential Internet Service Provider Satisfaction Study; […]
Despite economic growth concerns, pay-TV subscriptions for Asia Pacific’s top 68 operators will increase by 74 per cent from a collective 376 million in 2014 to 535 million by 2020, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. These operators from 20 countries will climb from 75 per cent of Asia Pacific pay TV […]