Beamly, the social discovery platform for TV, has unveiled new features that further meet the Millennial need to engage with their favourite TV programmes. The release of these new features comes on the heels of record growth for Beamly that has enjoyed an 11x lift in growth to 10.4 million unique users since its relaunch […]
HBO GO is now available to all the RCS&RDS owned Digi Net and Digi TV subscribers in Romania that have an HBO or MAXPAK subscription. Digi Net and Digi TV subscribers have access to HBO GO on desktop computers, smartphones, tablets and smart TVs. The OTT service offers unlimited access to over 2000 hours of […]
Star India, one of India’s leading entertainment broadcasters, has selected Accenture to help develop, launch and deliver its over-the-air programming to India’s online consumers on almost any mobile device. Branded hotstar, the service is available Star India’s wholly owned subsidiary, and when fully deployed will be available to India’s entire population. The hotstar service, built […]
Netflix is clamping down on users accessing the service through a VPN (virtual private networks), with its updated terms of service threatening to “terminate or restrict your use of our service, without compensation or notice”. VPNs are used for a variety of reasons, but, with regards to Netflix, usually to combat limited download speeds and […]
Transparency Market Research has released a new publication which studies the emergence of IPTV. The report states that the global IPTV market is estimated to grow from $24.94 billion in 2013 to $79.38 billion in 2020, registering a strong CAGR of 18.1 per cent between 2014 and 2020. Fuelled by falling IPTV subscription prices and […]
The pay-TV market has been struggling with increasing customer churn and maintaining ARPU, and is forecast for only 3.7 per cent CAGR through 2020, according to ABI Research. In contrast, OTT video continues its strong growth, and should see around 26 per cent total revenue growth in 2015, with 24 per cent CAGR through 2019. […]
The penetration of OTT viewing in Australia is set to hit 85 per cent of the total population within the next two years, with smart TVs likely to be the next big thing. Authentic Entertainment, a digital strategy and content creation company, commissioned in-home ethnographic interviews and an online survey
The HBO Now channel has gone live on the Apple TV set-top box, iPhone and iPad, ahead of the series premiere of HBO hit show Game of Thrones Season 5 on April 12th. The new Apple TV channel and iPhone and iPad app allow users to stream all of HBO’s original content, past and present, […]
The chance to get free two-day Amazon shipping is a bigger driver of Amazon Prime subs in the US than the unlimited streaming of TV, according to a study from Strategy Analytics, which found that 55 per cent of US respondents who had Amazon Prime said free shipping was “very important” to their subscribing, while […]
ContentWise, the personalisation, discovery and recommendations solution for digital TV content, will be bringing the next-generation of its solution to this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show. ContentWise 5.2 has been developed to deliver context-based predictions for on-demand content and also features real-time content activation, recommending viewers’ favorite content just minutes after linear broadcast. […]