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Al Jazeera, Mixcloud launch on Apple TV

Al Jazeera English is amongst the first wave of news outlets available on the newly launched Apple TV, providing the global news and programmes live and on demand. Users will be able to save videos for later viewing, access all saved content from the Watch List, have 24-hour access to Al Jazeera’s live video stream […]

November 4, 2015

Simplestream partners with Facebook

Live streaming and live-to-VoD services specialist Simplestream has joined Facebook’s Video Publishing Partner programme, giving broadcasters and media owners the ability effortlessly to publish any of their video content across Facebook. Simplestream has developed its proprietary Media Manager solution to allow its customer portfolio such as Scripps, Turner Broadcasting, Discovery, At The Races, Racing UK […]

November 3, 2015By Colin Mann

Apple App Store revenue $30bn by 2021

Strategy Analytics’ iOS apps forecast predicts the Apple iOS App Store will reach nearly $30 billion (€27.2bn) in revenue by 2021. Between 2008 and 2021 Apple will pay out more than $140 billion billion to app developers.While Apple’s App Store continues to generate billions for developers, the companies benefitting continue to change significantly. In 2008 […]

November 2, 2015

NBCU apps for Apple TV

NBCUniversal has further expanded its TV Everywhere offering on the new Apple TV with the launch of four new apps from the NBCUniversal portfolio: NBC, USA Now, NBC Sports Live Extra and CNBC. Users for the new Apple TV can access content from these networks on demand, as well as live programming from NBC Sports […]

November 2, 2015

iPlayer app for Apple TV

The BBC has confirmed that its iPlayer service is coming to the new Apple TV. The catch-up app is not ready to launch alongside the revamped set-top box when it goes on sale this week, but the Corporation said that it would be available “in the coming months”. “Available on over 10,000 devices, BBC iPlayer […]

October 29, 2015

Arxan expands Application Protection to Apple TV

Arxan Technologies, a provider of application protection solutions, has announced expanded application security protections for the Apple tvOS platform. A number of the applications which come pre-installed on the newly announced Apple TV are already protected by Arxan with the most advanced application security measures designed to assure app performance, protect sensitive data, and prevent […]

October 29, 2015

Sky News on Apple News app

Sky News has joined with Apple to be part of its UK launch of Apple News. The app, already available in the US, will enable millions of Apple News customers in the UK to access and customise Sky News’ feed directly on their mobile devices further extending Sky News’ digital reach. Andrew Hawken, Director of […]

October 22, 2015

UKTV Play launches on Amazon Fire TV

UKTV has confirmed the launch of its on-demand service UKTV Play on Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. The UKTV Play app on Amazon Fire TV devices includes a new feature which enables users to create their own bespoke collections via ‘My List’. This new function will be rolled out onto other UKTV Play […]

October 20, 2015

Spectrum TV App on Roku

Spectrum TV App is now available as a channel on Roku players and Roku TVs in the US.  Charter TV customers now have the ability to stream content included in their Spectrum TV service to any television in their home connected to a Roku device. “We are excited to bring our customers greater flexibility and […]

October 13, 2015

Facebook VP: ‘Facebook and TV happy bedfellows’

Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook’s vice president for EMEA has suggested that although time spent online is now eclipsing time spent on television, we are living in a golden age of TV, with Facebook and TV “happy bedfellows”. Delivering a Media Mastermind Keynote, she noted that video is exploding, quoting Cisco research predicting that it will account […]

October 8, 2015Colin Mann @ MIPCOM