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Canal+ Group overhauls brand and packages

France’s Canal+ Group says it is going on the offensive, entirely revamping its TV packages, and widening its distribution channels to reach more subscribers and grow its market. The Group is introducing a simpler choice of options under the Canal brand, including the Canal+ channels and all the themed channels previously available from CanalSAT (the […]

October 13, 2016

A third of Brits eat in front of a screen daily

It is widely acknowledged that we’re now living in the digital age and the Internet has become a necessity in everyday lives. With more people not only choosing to work from home, but also performing daily tasks such as grocery shopping and streaming entertainment. But have we become too reliant on tech? In a recent […]

October 11, 2016

Australia: Freeview launches FV mobile app

Australian free-to-air digital TV platform Freeview has announced that its world-first mobile app, delivering FTA TV channels with just one click, will launch in November. The new live streaming service is branded Freeview FV and will deliver TV into viewers’ hands, extending viewing out of the home. Offering a new TV experience with more than […]

October 10, 2016

Australians continue to embrace OTT, connected devices

The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report – from Regional TAM, OzTAM and Nielsen, and covering Q2 (April-June) 2016 – continues to explore the impact of digital technologies, new channel and platform choices, and take-up of connected devices on audience behaviour. Most households now own numerous screens, the majority Internet-capable and many portable, leading people to spread […]

October 7, 2016

Spain: Vodafone targets families to boost subs

Vodafone is launching a new convergent package branded ‘Vodafone One Total,’ with fixed and mobile telephony (3 mobile lines), broadband and all the 120 TV channels and football. The package will cost from €112 with FTTH distribution and up to 50 Megabytes (€120 with 300 Megabytes). The convergent offer is marketed through two types of […]

October 3, 2016From David Del Valle in Madrid

Streaming 95% of mobile music by 2022

Share of value from streaming will grow from 76 per cent in 2015 to 95 per cent in 2022 in the total mobile music market, while the number of users will more than double to reach 950 million, according to the latest forecast by Strategy Analytics.  The report finds that despite a decline in full-track […]

September 30, 2016

Akamai: UK still has highest mobile connection speeds

Akamai Technologies has released its Second Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform the report provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds, broadband adoption metrics, notable Internet disruptions, IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 implementation. “The continued increase in average connection speeds is a reassuring […]

September 29, 2016

Spain: Movistar Plus multi device access

Telefónica’s pay-TV platform Movistar Plus is launching a multi device access service allowing its subscribers to have simultaneous access to the pay-TV platform through up to four different devices located at home. The subscriber will be able to watch Movistar TV channels through a TV set, a mobile phone, a console or PC or tablet […]

September 28, 2016From David Del Valle in Madrid

NBCU’s MacLellan: ‘Technology the great instigator of media’

Kevin MacLellan, Chairman, Global Distribution and International at NBCUniversal and RTS Conference Chair, has suggested that although technology may be the great instigator of media, consumer behaviour is the accelerator of change. Delivering opening remarks at the RTS London Conference, MacLellan noted the growth of technologies and its impact on content creation. “I see technology […]

September 27, 2016Colin Mann @RTS London

AR app revenues to approach $6bn by 2021

A Juniper Research study has found that consumer app revenues from AR (augmented reality) will remain below that of the enterprise sector through to 2021, despite the high visibility of games such as Pokémon GO. Juniper forecasts that revenues from enterprise AR apps will reach $5.7 billion (€5bn) by 2021, rising ten fold from an estimated […]

September 27, 2016