VideoAmp has raised $70 million (€62.2m) in new funding led by The Raine Group, a global investment bank focused exclusively on media and technology. The Raine Group invested $50 million in this growth round of financing, with Ankona Capital contributing an additional $20 million. In conjunction with the round, media executive Peter Liguori, most recently […]
Amazon has added HISTORY PLAY to its line-up of Prime Video Channels in the UK, Germany and Austria, bringing customers for the first time access to A+E Networks’ popular documentaries and factual series with an on-demand subscription. Prime members ca gnain access to HISTORY PLAY with an add on subscription of £3.99/€3.99 per month, with […]
AT&T and LiveU are working together to bring 5G to LiveU’s HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) bonding portable transmission solutions. “In a world of 24-hour news cycles, getting breaking news quickly to audiences is imperative,” said Mo Katibeh, chief marketing officer, AT&T Business. “By teaming up with LiveU to trial 5G with their portable HEVC […]
A panel of advertising and media industry executives at IAB’s Digital Content NewFronts conference in New York have speculated that Netflix will eventually carry advertising support. One panellist, reported by CNBC, said that Netflix was actively recruiting staff to help grow advertising support. Another suggested that Netflix was looking at targeted/addressable advertising. Netflix has consistently […]
Eastern Europe will have 26.19 million SVoD subscriptions by 2024; up from 10.02 million recorded by end-2018. Russia will supply 8.77 million to the 2024 total, with Poland bringing in another 6.32 million. Together, they will account 58 per cent of the region’s total. The Eastern Europe OTT TV and Video Forecasts report estimates that […]
Research from Parks Associates finds that the percentage of UK broadband households stating that they are likely to cancel their pay-TV service has increased to 24 per cent in late 2018 from 12 per cent in late 2015. The intent to cancel is higher among households that watch online video services. “Subscription streaming services, also […]
Orange Spain has reported flat revenues for the first quarter, reaching €1.32 billion, up just 0.4 per cent year on year. Orange ended the quarter with a total of 20.3 million customers – out of which 16.1 million are mobile telephony customers and 4.13 million fixed broadband subscribers. Some 84 per cent of the latter […]
Venezuela’s struggling President Nicholas Maduro has banned distribution of CNN from the nation’s cable and DTH networks. The BBC’s news channel has also been removed. DirecTV, Net Uno, Intercable and Telefonica have all be ordered to remove the news channels via the local telecoms regulator Conatel. CNN, in a web-statement, said: “CNN has been taken […]
Hulu, the US streaming service, now has over 28 million customers – 26.8 million monthly paid subscribers and 1.3 million promotional accounts – it revealed during the annual IAB’s Digital Content NewFronts conference in New York. Hulu had 20 million customers in January of last year. Hule also revealed a new slate of shows and […]
Neil Sharpe, Product Marketing Director at content and revenue protection specialist Friend MTS, has described streaming piracy as a “sophisticated, industrial scale problem”, but suggested that with the right techniques, tackling it is not an insurmountable task. Speaking at SportsPro Live in London, Sharpe told delegates that research from market analyst firm Ovum estimated that […]