Strategy Analytics predicts that the onslaught of new LTE tablets and smartphones demonstrated at 2012 International CES will create a tidal wave of mobile video traffic. Mobile video is getting hotter and can wreak havoc on the unprepared network, as users demand OTT content from YouTube, Netflix, Hulu. “Leading operators, like Verizon and SK Telecom, […]
Shine Group has acquired London-based ChannelFlip, which has made Internet TV shows for stars including Harry Hill and David Mitchell, in Elisabeth Murdoch’s latest move to turn the production company into a multimedia production company. As well as creating a range of online shows for TV personalities ChannelFlip also recently struck a deal with Studio […]
Unruly Media, which makes video campaigns designed for social sharing, has announced a $25 (£16.04) million first VC funding round to pay for international expansion. The money comes from Amadeus Capital Partners, Van den Ende & Deitmers and the UK’s Business Growth Fund, a fund formed by five banks. London-based Unruly, with 100 staff claims […]
blinkx, the advanced video search engine, has formed a partnership with LifeMinute.TV, a portal to free, broadcast-quality video and audio content. This partnership will give blinkx users access to a wide array of high-quality lifestyle video content including fashion runways, music, movies, beauty news to parenting, travel, and finance. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx […]
VidScale, a provider of carrier-class content delivery network (CDN) services, federated transparent caching and bandwidth optimisation for the cable, mobile and ISP markets, has been selected and deployed by Avail-TVN, the digital media services company, to provide key functionality for the company’s AnyView multiplatform, multiscreen video service. AnyView will extend and enhance the traditional VoD […]
RGB Networks, the leading provider of scalable multiscreen IP video delivery solutions, has been listed by Forbes Magazine as one of America’s Most Promising Companies. Through this list Forbes recognises “100 privately held up-and-comers with compelling business models, strong management teams, notable customers, strategic partners and precious investment capital”. “We are very pleased that Forbes […]
Global consumer spend on online video has exploded in 2011, according to the latest research – Global OTT Video Forecast: Q4 2011 – from Strategy Analytics. Global online video spend will soar to $3.5 billion in 2011. While transactional revenue growth is slowing in maturing territories, subscription revenues driven by specialists – such as Netflix […]
Multi-screen video software company SeaChange International has reported a net income for the third quarter of $0.4 million, compared to a loss of $2.9 million in the year-ago quarter. Last year’s third quarter net loss included a $2.4 million restructuring charge. Revenues for the quarter grew 9 per cent to $53.4 million from $49.1 million […]
Bianor has joined the Brightcove Alliance global partner programme to introduce an advanced new delivery channel to joint Bianor and Brightcove customers. Bianor’s iMediaShare technology will be made available to customers serving video to millions of Internet-connected TV’s, helping to meet the increasingly complex online video needs of these organisations. “Bianor’s core competences make it […]
The growing presence of online video has given rise to significant advances in the overall Russian home video market, with uptake in digital viewing triggering market forecasts in the region of 1,000 per cent in 2011, according to research from Futuresource Consulting. “Despite being in embryonic stages of development, digital services are expected to offset […]