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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The penetration rate of VR-enabled smartphones and tablets, as well as shipments of VR devices bundled with gaming consoles or PCs will continue to soar in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to Digitimes Research. Among these devices, shipments of VR video-enabled smartphones and VR devices bundled with consoles
Vodafone Spain increased revenue by 4 per cent to €3.866.8 billion but incurred in €207 million losses as of the end of March against €159.8 million the previous year. The rise in losses is because of the costs from the redundancies following the acquisition of the cable company ONO and the investments in ultra high […]
CCS Insight’s latest global forecast for mobile phones confirms that the market has peaked at about 2 billion units per year after decades of growth. The research firm expects that in 2016 shipments of mobile phones will slip 1.3 percent from their level in 2015, with most markets experiencing a difficult year. A notable exception […]
Cross-platform measurement specialist comScore is partnering with trade body The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) for comScore’s Digital Download Essentials Industry (DDEi) service in North America. The DDEi service, focused on efforts to further expand the market coverage of transactional movie and TV show measurement, is a leading source of industry on movie and television content […]
Ooyala has published its Q2 2016 Global Video Index, drawing insights from more than 3.5 billion video analytic events per day from 220 million viewers across the world. This quarter, the report put specific focus on ‘power users’. Ooyala defined a “power user” as a customer who visited on more days each month — at […]
Comcast is to launch a mobile service in 2017 CEO Brian Roberts told the Goldman Sachs investor conference: “We believe there will be a big payback with reduced churn, more stickiness and better satisfaction.” Roberts said the network will use Comcast’s 15 million Wi-Fi hot spots and use airwaves leased from Verizon. Comcast signed a […]
The number of people across Latin America using their mobile devices to access the Internet is set to grow by 50 per cent by the end of the decade, according to a GSMA study. It is forecast that 150 million new mobile internet subscribers will be added in the region by 2020, bringing the total […]