In keeping with its strategy of making its content available to all its viewers across as many platforms as possible, Sky is launching a new app just for kids – available from March 31 – designed to offer a safe and fun way for pre-schoolers to nine-year-olds to enjoy the widest range of the most […]
UK multi-play operator EE – now part of BT – has unveiled Recordings To Go, a feature designed to set new standards in how consumers access and watch the TV they love. Claiming a UK first, EE says that TV lovers can select content from any of EE TV’s 70+ free-to-view channels to record and […]
Has America become a marathon nation when it comes to video content consumption? Indications point to “yes”. Seventy per cent of US consumers now binge watch an average of five episodes at a time, and almost one-third (31 per cent) binge on a weekly basis according to Deloitte’s 10th Digital Democracy Survey. In addition to […]
Facebook has revealed its decision to discontinue support for its Blackberry app. It means Blackberry users will have to use the mobile version of the website to log on to the social network. Earlier this month WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, also announced that it would only continue to support Blackberry’s Android-powered Priv handset. […]
Eighty-one per cent of all US smartphone users now stream video on their devices, according to data from The NPD Group’s Connected Intelligence Smartphone and Tablet Usage Report. This usage is being driven primarily by users who are 25 and younger, who spend twice as much time watching video content on YouTube and Netflix mobile […]
Recognising consumers’ desire to view content in alternative ways to traditional TV, digital experience specialist Adobe has revealed an end-to-end offering with Adobe Primetime that extends the solution to help drive audience acquisition, engagement and monetisation across every screen and platform. The new offering delivers more personalised TV and ad experiences directly to consumers via […]
Following the successful launch in October 2015 of live TV streaming app TVPlayer on Amazon Fire, live streaming and live-to-VoD solutions provider Simplestream has confirmed that pay-TV lite streaming service TVPlayer Plus is now available on Amazon Fire TV, which brings the total offering of channels to 75 within a single app for a low-cost […]
OSN, the leading pay-TV network in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has launched a new app that offers subscribers access to their OSN Plus HD box with new ways to discover OSN’s vast library of content. Designed to enhance the OSN TV viewing experience, the OSN App’s intuitive interface allows subscribers to easily […]
An SNL Kagan study on behalf of the MPAA looking at the availability popular film and TV titles on legal online platforms in the US has found that a significant majority of premium TV series were digitally available on at least one of the online services that were reviewed, including online VoD and TV Everywhere […]
Leaders from across the UK home entertainment industry gathered in London for the annual Insight Forum, from the newly-rebranded British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE). The event – Driving the Video Category Forward – was produced in association with the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). Previously known as the British Video Association (BVA), the British Association […]