The latest update to Sky+ is designed to make it even easier for users to binge-watch their way through content on the Sky Box Sets service. The changes, Sky’s first software update of 2016, come as Sky Box Sets customers will get exclusive access to the full series of The Tunnel: Sabotage and Billions, the […]
More than half of Malaysians prefer YouTube content compared to TV according to the latest YouTube Insights Program by TNS Research. The survey, conducted in collaboration with Google, found that millennials aged 16 to 34 prefer the video platform over conventional options. Somewhat surprisingly, even half of the senior citizen from the age of 55 […]
Vubiquity,a global provider of premium content services, has signalled its intention to capture top players in the OTT market in Latin America with the launch of a fully managed digital storefront product at Andina Link 2016. The move is part of a long-term strategy to disrupt established providers and become the first choice in the […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel is planning to launch a TV streaming device in an effort to compete more effectively with OTT players such as Netflix. Any such initiative would pitch Foxtel against Telstra TV, the service owned by Foxtel’s 50 per cent shareholder Telstra. Foxtel’s other shareholder is Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (Twenty-First Century Fox, […]
Ericsson has teamed up with leading global service providers including Hutchison, Vodafone, Telstra and AIS, to launch a new ubiquitous content delivery ecosystem which aggregates regional service provider capabilities on a global scale. As highlighted by Ericsson’s latest Mobility Report, networks are suffering from increased strain as OTT and video becomes an ever-more dominating force […]
In a similar move to the autumn 2015 launch of OTT service TVPlayer Plus in the UK, cloud-based TV aggregation app and platform Magine is providing premium pay-TV channels in Germany for the first time without any requirement to purchase any other content or service. Magine TV viewers in Germany (traditionally one of the most […]
As Netflix ramps up its global roll-out, adding 130 countries in January, the company says it wanted its service to work well everywhere in the world, and that meant solving many complex technical problems with a global approach. In a company Blog, Research Engineers at the Internet entertainment streaming firm note that the personalised recommendations […]
Fresh from its merger with Rentrak, cross-platform measurement specialist comScore has revealed that its planned Total Home Panel measurement platform will enable the measurement of over-the-top services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime with title level information. Speaking on comScore’s Q4 2015 Results Earnings Call, Serge Matta, Executive Vice Chairman and President of comScore, said […]
The Mobile World Congress edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report reveals the impact of different levels of network performance on smartphone users and their perceptions of mobile operators and digital content providers. Neuroscience technology was used to objectively measure emotional responses to varied smartphone experiences. Delays in loading web pages and videos under time pressure […]
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan has rejected FilmOn.com Inc.’s claims that a judge abused his discretion by holding the company in contempt and penalising it $90,000. The company also was ordered to pay more than $100,000 in legal fees. The court upheld a judge’s contempt ruling that FilmOn continued streaming TV […]