Findings from analyst firm Parks Associates reveal that consumers are steadily adding connected entertainment devices to their households and using their smart features—83 per cent of Smart TV owners connect their device to the Internet, up from 70 per cent in 2014. Ownership of streaming media players has almost doubled from about 21 per cent […]
FreeWheel and Comcast Technology Solution have announced a partnership with Mediaset for the platform Mediaset Play, a new live and on demand online streaming service. The new offering helps unify Mediaset’s video distribution and advertising stack and is part of the broadcaster’s overarching AVOD (Advertising VOD) strategy. Mediaset Play is the result of a new […]
MTG’s esports companies Turtle Entertainment (ESL) and DreamHack have signed a broadcasting deal with TV 2, a national TV network in Denmark, that will bring over 700 hours of premium esports content to TV viewers in Denmark throughout 2019. • Denmark’s TV 2 acquires rights to broadcast Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournaments organised by ESL and […]
South Africa’s SABC public broadcaster seems to lurch from crisis to crisis, making wholly undesirable headlines on a near-constant basis. Whether it’s allegations of financial wrong-doing, selective news coverage and bias, over-manning, boardroom spats, phone-tapping and high-level corruption, the broadcaster is never far from the news. South Africa’s newly appointed telecoms minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has […]
AI-driven video content data specialist AnyClip has launched LuminousX, which it claims is the first end-to-end contextual video content, engagement, and monetisation solution. LuminousX enables publishers to face the large technology platforms by enriching any website with an interactive feed of endless ultra-premium and automatically-matched editorial content. “While users are consuming more content, it is […]
Executives at Sky Sports have revealed further details of the relaunch of the At The Races horse racing service as Sky Sports Racing, set to go live on January 1st 2019, making it the 11th Sky Sports channel. Matthew Imi, CEO of At The Races, said that fully becoming part of the Sky family would […]
Netflix has paid $100 million (€88m) to keep the globally-popular Friends sitcom in its streaming library for another year. News recently emerged that Netflix’s current deal with Warner Bros for the show’s rights would expire on January 1st 2019. It is believed that Netflix responded swiftly to combat the negative amount of coverage the story […]
A Netflix-style SVoD platform for live sports can exist, but faces high hurdles, according to analysis from GlobalData. Live sports are an essential part of any pay-TV package, and are one of the key reasons why many people have not yet cut the cord and gone exclusively OTT. However, if a Netflix-style sports-oriented SVoD service […]
The Spanish TV group Mediapro has consolidated its position in the French TV market following the awarding by the French professional football league (LFP) of the domestic media rights for its second tier Ligue 2 for the 2020-21 to 2023-24 seasons. Through BeIN Sports, Mediapro will pay €64 million for the four year agreement to […]
YouView has appointed Susie Buckridge as its new CEO following the departure of long-serving CEO Richard Halton. Buckridge was director of product. YouView, which is backed by the UK’s PSBs and transmission services provider Arqiva as well as telcos BT and TalkTalk, is used principally as the platform for TV services by the latter two […]