The Walt Disney Company has created a new unit for its streaming video and international businesses “to capitalise on today’s rapidly changing media landscape and more closely align with the Company’s priorities for future growth.” Kevin Mayer, the company’s chief strategy officer, has been named chairman of the new division, which will oversee the upcoming […]
The unbundling of cable TV packages will accelerate over the next five years, with all major TV networks launching standalone direct-to-consumer (DTC) streaming services by 2022, according to a new report from The Diffusion Group, The Future of Direct-to-Consumer Video Services – Analysis & Forecasts, 2018-2028. “Big media
Subscription losses slowed for traditional multichannel video providers in Q4 2017 (quarter ended December 31st, 2017), but the sector still tumbled for the full year, according to data compiled by Kagan, a group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Combined cable, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and telecommunication (telco) multichannel subscriptions fell to 94 million, including 91.1 […]
TV-viewing research from Parks Associates finds that live TV viewing among all video consumption has continued to decline overall among US broadband households – nearly 60 per cent of video viewed on the TV is on-demand, non-linear content. The research shows that the trend is particularly pronounced among young consumers. Just over one-quarter of TV […]
Spanish satellite operator Hispasat and Global Skyware, a provider of satellite equipment owned by Global Invacom Group, have reached an agreement to develop a device that allows triple play services (data, voice and video) to be received through the same aerial. Global Skyware is developing a solution based on a dichroic sub-reflector that is integrated […]
OneWeb, the massive satellite constellation being planned by Greg Wyler and in which Intelsat has a modest shareholding, will be open to other satellite users of its capacity. The news, outlined by Japan media conglomerate SoftBank’s Alex Clavel at the giant Washington Satellite 2018 show, saying that notwithstanding the financial link between OneWeb and Intelsat, […]
Facebook has been prevented from making use of UK user’ WhatsApp data for purposes beyond the chat app itself. The social media giant had announced in 2016 that it intended to tap into its subsidiary’s records to give better friend suggestions and show targeted ads. However, the UK’s information commissioner said this would have breached […]
The UK government is backing the building of a rocket launch site. UK Transport Minister Jo Johnson says: “The Space Industry Bill gives companies the ability to launch satellites from UK soil, putting us at the forefront of the new space race, and helping us to compete as the destination of choice for satellite companies […]
According to findings from UK student accommodation search engine Mystudenthalls.com, Generation Z – the first generation of students that has never known a world without the Internet – rely on Netflix and Spotify and no longer need a library to be at their most productive. The survey of over 2,000 UK students by the student […]