Mediavision research finds that over 60 per cent of Swedish households subscribe to at least one service for music or TV streaming. And among the streaming households, almost half subscribe to a music service, a high figure also internationally. The great interest in Spotify among Swedes is partly explained by the country’s general interest in […]
Netflix has announced its first Netflix Original Korean variety show entitled Busted! I Know Who You Are. The show is a new type of K-variety where 7 main cast members position themselves as detectives that set out to solve a mystery in each of the episodes. The show features an all-star K-variety cast including Yoo […]
TiVo has announced that Starz Entertainment, a media distribution company that owns several TV networks in the US, has signed a long-term intellectual property (IP) licence. Starz is acquiring a licence to the TiVo patent portfolios and the OTT assets of the Intellectual Ventures patent portfolio under the TiVo/IV licensing partnership. “This licensing agreement with […]
YANGA!, the new general entertainment channel for the UK’s African diaspora, is now available on Freesat channel 171. The channel’s broad schedule combines the best entertainment television produced from across the continent, plus a bold new series of original programmes produced locally by the diaspora. “YANGA! means self-pride and showing-off in West African pidgin,” says […]
Content protection technology specialist ContentArmor has confirmed that its video watermarking solution is compatible with Dolby Vision HDR. ContentArmor and Dolby have collaborated to enable interoperability between both technologies, from content distribution workflows to end users’ visual experience. Forensic watermarking applications improve the ability of content owners and distributors to detect and mitigate the misuse […]
Vubiquity, now part of Amdocs and provider of premium content services and media technology solutions, has extended its long-standing relationship with Turner as the primary distributor of its VoD content. Vubiquity distributes TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, CNN and other Turner networks to 60 million+ households across North America and Canada. As part of this new […]
24i Media, a global TV app developer, is helping power the newly launched Tennis Channel app, which is now available on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Amazon Fire and Roku devices. The redesigned app lets fans watch tennis anywhere in the home or on the go. “Our fans expect access to tennis anytime, anywhere and on […]
21st Century Fox has said it would sell off Sky News to Disney or ring-fence it to allay regulatory concerns over its proposed acquisition of the part of Sky it doesn’t already own. It faces regulatory problems after the Competition and Markets Authority found the £11.7bn (€13.4bn) deal was not in the public interest. Fox […]
Despite pre-bout warnings from two UK IP protection bodies of the risks associated with illegal streaming ahead of the March 31st fight between Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker, digital platform security specialist Irdeto has identified 339 streams that illegally redistributed the fight. Many of these lower quality, illegal streams put consumers at risk of a […]
According to the CNBC All-America Economic Survey, nearly 57 per cent of Americans are streaming entertainment and most of those are doing so with Netflix. Findings from the poll of 801 Americans around the country confirm the rapid adoption of streaming service by American households, with Netflix dominating the streaming world, with 51 per cent […]