There have been no significant changes in the coverage of traditional broadcast terrestrial, satellite and cable networks over the past year according to Ofcom’s Connected Nations Report (previously called the Infrastructure Report) which charts the UK’s evolving communications infrastructure, and our progress towards becoming genuinely connected nations. However, the ways in which TV is consumed […]
Enterprise-class subscription billing specialist Vindicia has confirmed that BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has chosen Vindicia’s CashBox solution to manage ecommerce on BBC Store, the Corporation’s new direct-to-consumer retail platform that enables audiences to buy and keep copies of their favourite BBC TV programmes. BBC Store will be integrated with the BBC’s […]
Sky TV customers can now watch any of the festive TV schedule from Sky with their Amazon Fire tablets on Sky Go this December. Luke Bradley-Jones, Sky’s Director of TV Products, commented: “It’s brilliant that Amazon Fire tablets are now compatible with Sky Go in time for the great line up of TV this December. […]
Unified Streaming, a provider of cross-platform video streaming technologies was selected by MTV Finland, a commercial TV broadcaster in Finland, to expand the offering of their MTV Katsomo Web TV service. MTV Katsomo is one of the most successful Web TV services in Finland and they are now using Unified Origin for the advanced streaming […]
Chinese authorities have ordered domestic producers of OTT set-top boxes to uninstall illegal third-party applications from their products. The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China has issued a list of 81 such illegal applications meaning that domestic brands such as Tmall, Xiaomi and Huawei will need […]
Nearly one out of every six homes in the Netherlands had a subscription to Netflix in the third quarter, according to research conducted by Telecompaper. This equates into 1.2 million homes and, up from the 1.1 million recorded in the second quarter (which was roughly 1 in 7 homes). About 43% of the subscriptions are […]
Nickelodeon, the kids’ entertainment brand, and OSN, the MENA pay-TV network, are making family entertainment more accessible with the arrival of Nickelodeon Play. The app is available immediately as a free download, but OSN subscribers will have access to exclusive full episodes of Nickelodeon shows. Both English and Arabic content is available on Nickelodeon Play, and OSN subscribers will receive exclusive access to […]
With the recent launch of Netflix in Spain the competition in the OTT market has intensified with Telefonica’s service Yomvi growing significantly, according to the company. In October Yomvi registered over 40 million downloads, double the same period last year. The service has 1 million active subscribers out of the total 4 million of subscribers […]
Competition for control of the living room between Apple, Roku, Google and Amazon is intensifying as each brand looks to establish an advantage over the other through the launch of new innovative device hardware and software. If success is measured on device popularity alone then Google is winning the race according to a Strategy Analytics […]
The Electronic communications and postal regulatory authority (ARCEP) and the General economic council, CGE (Conseil général de l’économie) have published the results of the annual survey on the adoption and use of information and communication technologies in France. Carried out in June 2015