‘Loot boxes’ drive digital games market
A study from Juniper Research forecasts that the total digital games market will reach $160 billion by 2022, up from $117 billion this year. The market is set to be boosted by
May 1, 2018
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SpotX adds Nielsen OTT data To CTV ad analysis
SpotX, the global video advertising and monetisation platform, has announced it will be leveraging total and incremental campaign reach reporting that offers demographic breakouts based on Nielsen’s audience data for connected TV (CTV) in the US. This marks the first time a digital supply-side platform (SSP) has leveraged Nielsen analytics for CTV. SpotX will help […]
May 1, 2018
BT Sport to air Fury comeback fight
BT Sport has extended its partnership with Frank Warren and Queensberry Promotions, continuing as the broadcaster of Frank Warren’s world class stable of fighters which include Billy Joe Saunders and Carl Frampton. BT Sport will also exclusively broadcast Tyson Fury’s heavyweight comeback fight in June. BT Sport will offer a compelling line up of Fight […]
May 1, 2018
Ekioh launches Flow multithreaded browser
Ekioh has unveiled Flow, a multithreaded HTML browser specifically designed for multi-core processors that delivers an improved user experience. Flow’s layout and animation performance is more than double the speed of other browsers on multi-core silicon. With TV user interfaces (UIs) increasingly looking towards 4K, Ekioh says Flow overcomes the performance issues of HTML UIs […]
May 1, 2018
Irdeto: Cheating ruins multiplayer online gaming
More than half (60 per cent) of gamers have had their multiplayer gaming experience negatively impacted by other players cheating on multiple occasions, according to new research by Irdeto. The Irdeto Global Gaming Survey of 9,436 consumers also
May 1, 2018
Cisco nearing video unit sale?
Following Advanced-Television’s November 2017 revelation that it was looking for a buyer for its former NDS video software division, Cisco Videoscape, reports suggest that the unit will be sold back to its previous leading shareholder, Permira Securities, with the sale price reported to be up to $1 billion (€820 million). Cisco acquired NDS for some […]
April 30, 2018By Colin Mann
T-Mobile, Sprint in $146bn merger
Suggesting the move will create the only company with the network capacity needed to launch rapidly a nationwide 5G network with the breadth and depth critical to extend the USA’s global Internet leadership in the 5G era, US telcos T-Mobile US and Sprint Corporation are to merge in an all-stock transaction at a fixed exchange […]
April 30, 2018
Research: Consumers value online over pay-TV
According to findings from Hub Entertainment Research’s What’s TV Worth, the firm’s annual study on the perceived value of TV services, there is a large gap in perceived value between online TV services and traditional cable, satellite or fibre optic services. Highlights from the study:
April 30, 2018
Global TV subs up 4m+ in Q4
The 100 leading TV services in the informitv Multiscreen Index added a total of 4.33 million pay-TV subscribers in the last quarter of 2017, compared to 3.70 million in the previous quarter and 4.03 million in the last quarter of 2016. The gain of almost 1 per cent was slightly up on the previous six […]
April 30, 2018
YouTube rolling out ad services to TV
YouTube is promising advertisers new ways to reach people watching YouTube on TV screens — as well as targeting YouTube ads to cord-cutters and consumers who don’t watch a lot of traditional TV. YouTube says connected TVs represent its fastest-growing device category in part down to its over-the-top ‘skinny bundle’ pay-TV service launched last year. […]
April 30, 2018