Suggesting it offers good fun and safe entertainment, in a trusted environment, Discovery is launching Discovery Kids, a digital subscription service, offering on demand Kids content through Amazon’s Prime Video Channels in the UK. Discovery Kids is targeted at families with children aged four-to-eight, and is designed as a safe and fun place for parents […]
Off-net transactional TalkTalk TV users are become Rakuten TV customers – gaining access to all the content available on the SVoD service. TalkTalk customers’ service is to remain unchanged, with continued access to TVoD, EST, linear channels and SVoD via TalkTalk TV on their set-top boxes and connected devices The company says that Rakuten TV […]
Promising an exciting new way to watch a huge range of sports shows on demand, Sports Channel Network (SCN) is now available on Internet-connected televisions on UK DTT platform Freeview channel 273. The channel offers a host of shows on demand, airing everything from eSports, to motorsports, to tennis, to combat and basketball. “We wanted […]
Two suppliers of Kodi-type illegal devices have each been jailed for four and half years in Newcastle Crown Court in the northwest of England after being found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. John Dodds and Jason Richards sold hundreds of devices that enabled their customers to view Premier League football via unauthorised access to Sky […]
Streaming platform and device specialist Roku has confirmed that the Sanyo brand is now part of the Roku TV licensing programme. Funai Corporation – the exclusive licensee for Sanyo consumer televisions and home video products in North America – expects to ship the first Sanyo Roku TVs in Canada this quarter. “The Roku operating system […]
The IAB Technology Laboratory has released new Guidelines for Identifier for Advertising on OTT Platforms with recommendations on how to maintain a high-quality advertising experience within OTT environments advocating that stakeholders manage advertising-related activities through an identifier for advertising (IFA). Available for public comment through May 3rd, the technical guidelines provide instructions on best practices […]
Ampere Analysis has released new market data comparing the online viewing habits of US audiences with European audiences. The research reveals: US has more online video watchers, and they watch more regularly US Internet users are more likely to watch online video on a smart TV or smartphone than their European counterparts, while the reverse […]
TiVo has announced a new deal with Tru Optik, the audience intelligence and data-management platform built for OTT Television, that will now extend TiVo’s deterministic, linear TV viewership data to the brands, agencies, and publishers that leverage Tru Optik to build audience-based campaigns across OTT and Connected TV (CTV). As part of the agreement, TiVo’s […]
Following the November 2017 announcement by the BBC that it was reinventing its free-to-air coverage of live sports, the corporation is to increase its coverage of tennis, women’s football, swimming and basketball, as well as broadcasting coverage from more than 30 additional sports or sporting events every year, revealing further details of its plan to […]
At the 2018 Connected TV World Summit, RDK Management provided its annual update about the adoption of the RDK (Reference Design Kit) software used to power customer-premises equipment (CPE) from video and broadband services providers worldwide. “With more than 40 million