Elon Musk-owned rocket business SpaceX has identified the cause of a catastrophic $285 million (€273m) September 1st explosion and is getting ready to restart launches. A statement, posted on the SpaceX website, said the explosion was caused by the failure of one of three helium tanks, known as composite overwrapped pressure vessels or COPVs, inside […]
File-sharing site TorrentFreak has analysed the most-pirated TV shows of 2016 through BitTorrent, with Game of Thrones claiming the dubious honour for the fifth year in a row. The site reports that traffic-wise, the interest was roughly on par with 2015. The highest number of people actively sharing an episode across several torrents was 350,000 […]
Sky Sports saw On Demand numbers continued to rise in 2016 with a 15 per cent jump in downloads compared to 2015. Sky Sports viewers downloaded almost 23 million videos across the spectrum of sporting action on offer, according to figures from comScore. Sky Sports Managing Director Barney Francis said: “As our service continues to […]
Big brand budgets and quadrennial events such as the Olympics, European Football Championship and US Presidential Election will drive 2016’s global advertising revenue growth to $532 billion (€508bn) according to findings from critical information, analytics and solutions source IHS Markit’s annual Global Advertising Trends report. “The advertising industry is about to turn the corner thanks […]
Simon Creasey is leaving Sky after 10 years in various executive roles with the pay-TV giant. Creasey is responsible for launching Sky’s OTT service Now TV, and has recently held the title of director of the company’s download-to-own Sky Store. Creasey will leave Sky in February to become chief marketing officer at cycling apparel business […]
In anticipation of CES 2017, as the biggest consumer electronics companies in the world prepare to unveil their latest new products, CCS Insight provides some expectations, key themes and predictions relevant to the show. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence The Internet of Things has been a key buzz phrase at CES for the past two […]
Al Jazeera Media Network and ICT solutions provider Huawei, have entered a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore possible avenues of cooperation to transform the Network’s online platform using media cloud solutions, in a bid to increase the Network’s online viewership and revenues. Based on the terms of the MoU, both parties will work […]
India’s officially recognised (by regulator TRAI) DTH active pay-TV subscribers grew in the summer quarter (July-September 2016) by 1.4 million (2.31 per cent) to an impressive 61.9 million. That’s all good news. But the bad news is that India’s ‘inactive’ subscribers grew at a faster rate, by 2.68 million to 32.71 million (a 5.41 per […]
US advertisers invested $17.6 billion (€16.8bn) in digital advertising in the third quarter of 2016, according to the latest IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report from IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) and prepared by PwC US. This marks the highest third quarter for digital advertising spending on record, and represents a 20 per cent increase over the […]
The South Korean government is planning to deregulate the domestic pay-TV industry to facilitate mergers and acquisitions among cable TV, satellite broadcasting and IPTV service providers with the intention of enhancing their competitiveness in the global market. The Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning said that it would apply the same regulation to the […]