SpotX, the global video advertising and monetsation platform, has released a white paper exploring the evolution of TV and digital video. Based on intelligence from select industry reports, the white paper entitled, Global TV and Video: Five Trends Contributing To The Continued Rise of Digital, concludes
As part of its dynamic improvement efforts, US movie industry trade body the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has announced the first update of its Content Security Best Practices since the formation of the Trusted Partner Network (TPN), which was launched in April 2018 in a joint venture with the Content Delivery and Security […]
Spain’s La Liga has reached an agreement with Facebook to stream live football matches from the Spanish football league to eight Asian countries. All games will be available for free. La Liga will receive €90 million to distribute the matches via Facebook Live to India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Maldivas, Nepal, Butan and Sri Lanka. A […]
Digital security specialist the Kudelski Group, and Neotion, a provider of secure solutions for the pay-TV industry, have reached an agreement whereby Kudelski’s SmarDTV’s Conditional Access Module (CAM) and set-top box businesses are transferred to SmarDTV Global, a newly established entity affiliated with Neotion. Upfront cash consideration for the transaction amounts to $20 million (€17.26m), […]
Consumers are becoming accustomed to Augmented Reality (AR) technology on their smartphones through apps such as Snapchat and Pokémon Go. Yet AR headsets such as Google Glass and Microsoft HoloLens remain a niche product with sales barely into the hundreds of thousands of units. Report author David MacQueen said: “2013 and the launch of Google
Taiwan’s leading video-on-demand (VoD) industry associations have come together with the government at a roundtable event to share and promote best practices that foster growth while safeguarding consumer interests through self-regulation and collaborating on anti-piracy efforts. The event was hosted by the Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA), the Asia Pacific trade association for the video […]
BBC Studios has announced that BBC First will launch as a linear channel in Poland on October 26th The channel – which will serve as the home of “premium British drama” – is also available in Australia, South Africa, Benelux and the Middle East. BBC First will also be the exclusive home of the new […]
ESPN+ has reached a multi-year media agreement for three more top-division soccer leagues – Australia’s Hyundai A-League and Westfield W-League, the Chinese Super League and the Dutch Eredivisie. In all, more than 300 matches per season from the leagues will be streamed live exclusively in the US on ESPN+, the multi-sport, direct-to-consumer subscription streaming service […]
The Karate Combat channel is available now on Roku players and Roku TV models throughout North America, most of Central and South America, and in the UK and Ireland. Roku users will now have access to all of Karate Combat’s fights from around the world, including live streamed events. At launch, the channel is free […]
Virgin Media and UKTV have reached a long term agreement which will restore all of UKTV’s channels and services to Virgin TV. These will return effective immediately. The news ends the carriage dispute between the two companies and means Virgin TV customers can now once again view programming from the likes of Dave, Gold, Alibi […]