JustFlicks, a new SVoD service, has rolled out in South Africa, with its services costing R1 (€0.07) per day. JustFlicks is operated by STS – the company that took over the Vidi website when Times Media Group shut down its streaming service in the country last year. JustFlicks currently boasts over 1,000 hours of movies […]
As first revealed in September 2016, viewers of the BBC’s iPlayer service will soon have to register for an account and enter a password before viewing. Warnings announcing the change have now started to appear on the iPlayer – and a login will become compulsory ‘within weeks’. The BBC has denied the move is part […]
Eutelsat’s Q3 overall revenues were €364.3 million, down 4.2 per cent (at constant currency) and 4.9 per cent as reported. Eutelsat said that its channel count was up 3.2 per cent (same period last year) at 6,356, and with HD penetration also rising at 1,057 channels and now represented 16.6 per cent of the operator’s […]
Twitter has signed a multi-year deal with the US National Football League (NFL) to live-stream pre-game coverage as well as a 30-minute show on the social media site. The show will be aired on Twitter five days a week during the NFL season, covering news, highlights and pre-game updates. Twitter already has a partnership with […]
Streaming giant Netflix has announced it will create 400 jobs at its new European customer service hub which opened this week in Amsterdam. Supporting customers across 11 European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden and the UK), the multilingual hub will employ initially a workforce of 170, growing to […]
Improbable, a London-based virtual reality firm, has raised $500 million (€460m) in one of the biggest investments in an early stage European technology business. Improbable was founded five years ago by Herman Narula and Rob Whitehead, who studied computer science together at Cambridge University. Their aim was to build large-scale virtual worlds and simulations – […]
SkyPerfect/JSat has agreed to invest in would-be broadband operator LeoSat. LeoSat is proposing a fleet of up to 108 Low Earth Orbiting satellites which will use laser-beam optical link technology to provide what is claimed to be the fastest and most secure data network available anywhere – on Earth or in space. SkyPerfect/JSat Corp (SJC) […]
FuboTV, a US sports-first streaming TV service, bringing its subscribers yet another way to access sports, news and entertainment programming from its network partners. In addition to streaming programming live, on demand or via DVR on fubo.tv, and through Fubo’s mobile and OTT apps, subscribers can now use their fuboTV name and password to log […]
Eurosport has partnered with software and solutions provider CA Technologies in a cross-platform sponsorship and integrated technology collaboration. Central to the partnership is the creation a second-screen app experience for cycling fans which launches during Eurosport’s ongoing coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Using CA API Management and CA App Experience Analytics tools, for the first […]
Bloomberg Media is introducing the next evolution of the Bloomberg app on Apple TV, which it suggests represents a major step forward for the future of television where there will be a stronger relationship between users and content. “We want to give the power back to you with what we feel is a vastly smarter […]