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Virgin Media launches V6 box and ‘TellyTablet’

Describing the unveiling of its Virgin TV V6 set-top box as the industry’s “worst-kept secret”, David Bouchier, Chief Digital Entertainment Officer at UK quad-play operator Virgin Media, also introduced a new HD TellyTablet created by Virgin Media, designed specifically as a personal Smart TV to watch television in HD quality. The Virgin TV launch event […]

November 30, 2016By Colin Mann

Survey: Kids embrace mobile on-demand viewing

A survey of 2,700 parents in the US, Canada and the UK, designed to illuminate how children age 0-12 consume entertainment content and brands, carried out by pure-play children’s content company DHX Media and market intelligence specialist Ipsos has revealed that kids have embraced mobile on-demand viewing, and that tablets are their preferred screen for […]

November 30, 2016

Wochit predicts more broadcaster/social media partnerships

Dror Ginzberg, CEO and co-founder of short-form social video creation platform Wochit, has shared his five top predictions for digital video in 2017: Streaming video companies like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon will look more and more like production studios or even OTT providers. This evolution is now both driven by and a driver of consumer […]

November 23, 2016

Simplestream spreads Blaze TVE roll-out

Video services provider Simplestream has been selected by A+E Networks UK to provide TV Everywhere distribution services for its new UK free-to-air channel Blaze. Blaze is a free-to-air channel that debuted in the UK and Ireland on 20 September 2016 on Freeview and Sky with programming that includes American Restoration, The First 48, Mountain Men, […]

November 23, 2016

MPEG LA releases MPEG-DASH patent portfolio licence

Licensing body MPEG LA has announced the availability of the MPEG-DASH (DASH) Patent Portfolio Licence. The joint licence includes patents that are essential to the MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) standard, which enables high quality streaming of media content over HTTP to be dynamically adapted to changing network conditions to provide smooth, high […]

November 18, 2016

SVoD impacting on Brits’ viewing habits

More than a quarter of British consumers (13.9 million or 27 per cent of the adult population) subscribe to video streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Video, according to research published by YouGov and subscription commerce, billing and finance solutions provider Zuora. The rising popularity of these services has a huge effect on TV […]

November 3, 2016

89% of viewing still on TV

The juggernaut of mobile phone use is changing the viewing dynamic, but not in the way most assume, according to the Video Advertising Bureau’s (VAB) latest State of Digial Video report. Viewers continue to leave the desktop for smartphones in droves as they take advantage of more on-demand options, while viewing on enabled smart TVs […]

November 2, 2016

LeEco brings ecosystem model to the US

Global technology company LeEco has launched what it describes as its “disruptive” ecosystem model in the US, which aims to break boundaries between screens to deliver content and services seamlessly on a wide array of connected smart devices – including smartphones, TVs, smart bikes, virtual reality and electric self-driving vehicles. The company has unveiled its […]

October 20, 2016

Olympics viewing: Digital takes Gold

The numbers are now in, and it is clear that while viewers to conventional broadcast channels enjoyed the Rio Olympics, it was digital viewers, whether on ‘red button’-type options, or simply viewing via second screens which took the main prizes. NBC, which paid a massive $1.23 billion for its TV and digital rights, reported that […]

August 23, 2016By Chris Forrester

TDG: Consumer screen usage at 50+ hours a week

According to research from The Diffusion Group (TDG), the amount of time consumers spend each week using a ‘screen’ — a television, personal computer, tablet, or mobile phone — now tops 50 hours. Importantly,

August 18, 2016