Simplestream, a specialist in live and on-demand OTT services, has been chosen by Little Dot Studios, a BAFTA and Emmy award-winning content producer and broadcaster, to build a global VoD service for its Real Stories channel. Launched originally as a YouTube channel, Real Stories has grown to include over 300 high quality licensed and original […]
Spain’s top-flight football league La Liga is planning to launch an OTT sports channel in August. The president of La Liga, Javier Tebas confirmed the news in an interview with Expansion, saying: “La Liga will launch its own multi-sport Internet channel,” as a way to “better directly reach our fans”. The ethos of the channel […]
At first sight, Eutelsat’s half-year results (to December 31st) are poor, with revenues of €697 million being down 5.7 per cent on the same period last year and on like-for-like trading. The poor numbers extend to Eutelsat’s usually buoyant backlog of contracts in place, but this has tumbled 11.4 per cent (from €5.3 billion to […]
Canal+ Group has reported full year revenues of €5.246 billion, on par with 2016, thanks in part to a 5.7 per cent growth in the fourth quarter. As at the end of December 2017, the Vivendi-owned company had total subscriber numbers of 15.6 million, up from 15 million at the end of 2016. Some 11.9 […]
Virgin Media has revealed it will boost the speed of its fastest networks to 350Mbps from spring 2018. “Our top speed has increased 15x over the past decade – up from what now seems a ludicrously slow 20Mpbs in 2007, to a blindingly fast 300Mpbs today – and soon things are going to get even […]
French media company TF1 Group has reported a Q4 profit of €64 million, down from €67.8 million a year ago. Total Q4 revenue was €658.3 million, down from €636 million year on year. During its earning call, TF1 confirmed its ambition to deliver growth in revenue from activities other than advertising on its 5 unencrypted […]
Netflix produced a huge surprise during the Super Bowl LII commercials, airing an ad that revealed the SVoD service had acquired the exclusive first-run rights to the third movie in the popular Cloverfield sci-fi franchise – and that it would be available to stream later that night. However, according to Nielsen, despite paying what would […]
CBS says its OTT services now have nearly 5 million subscribers, well ahead of expectations. Speaking with analysts, CBS CEO Les Moonves said that subscriber growth for CBS All Access and Showtime’s OTT products are “far beyond where we expected them to be.” Moonves added CBS expects to exceed its goal of 8 million subscribers […]
Ziggo, the Dutch cable operator, has revealed it will soon make content on its Ziggo Go streaming app available for offline viewing. The app will allow users to download content and store it for several weeks. It is not yet known if all content or just specific titles will be available to be stored as […]
KEYMILE has identified five prevailing trends on Germany’s telecommunications market: rising bandwidth demand due to new online services, fibre to the home, hybrid solution scenarios, vectoring and partnerships between competitors. In Germany, broadband expansion is progressing slowly but surely. According to information from the industry association VATM, approximately 3.1 million homes were connected to optical […]