Comcast announced its results to September 30th and they showed why it saw it as vital to secure its $40 billion Sky deal. The world’s biggest cableco lost another 106,000 video customers in the three months ending September. So far in 2018, Comcast has shed 342,000 cable TV subscribers, up from 118,000 in the same […]
The so-called El Clásico, the football match between the two largest Spanish teams, Real Madrid and Barcelona this weekend will be broadcast in 4K for 650 million viewers in 183 countries. Spanish TV group Mediapro will produce the broadcast with 30 UHD cameras and surround sound. La Liga has compared the TV transmission with the […]
SES saw its Video division revenues continue to be under pressure and fell back to -2.8 per cent, although its Networks segment grew impressively by 13.6 per cent in the nine months to September 30th. Its Q3 2018 underlying revenue of €317.5 million was 3.8 per cent lower (year-on-year) at constant FX. Video distribution revenues […]
A one per cent drop in revenue to €747.6 million resulting from the advertising crisis has meant Atresmedia, one of the largest TV operators in the country, has seen its profit drop by 16.8 per cent to €86 million to September. TV revenues dropped by 0.9 per cent to €696 million. EBITDA amounted to €124 […]
In the wake of the controversy around Eleven Sports’ intentional breach of the English Football Association’s (FA) longstanding blackout restriction on UK broadcasters, which was subsequently rescinded, geolocation-based security and digital content protection specialist GeoGuard has put the blackout to the test in terms of seeing how easy (or hard) it would be to circumvent […]
Virgin Media Television – the newly re-branded Irish broadcaster – will show all races from the fifth season of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship in Ireland. Fans of the electric street racing series will be able to follow the action live on Virgin Media Sport – the exclusive new sports channel available to Virgin […]
Video advertising and monetisation platform SpotX has inked a deal with Syncbak, a company that created the technology that powers live OTT, to increase revenue for local broadcasters. As a result of the partnership, SpotX is now connected with Syncbak’s proprietary dynamic ad insertion (DAI) solution, AdSync, and content owners and creators using Syncbak’s platforms, […]
Research from Matrix Solutions has revealed one in four UK consumers are annoyed that brands and media companies are injecting ads into originally produced VR and AR content, compared to one in five US consumers. Research also revealed UK consumers are more indifferent to advertising in AR or VR than American consumers, with over half […]
FOX News will debut the new on-demand subscription-based service FOX Nation on November 27th. The service will be priced at $5.99 a month or $64.99 per year. Additionally, FOX Nation will present an exclusive pre-sale initiative for consumers to become founding members of the service by purchasing limited edition packages beginning Sunday October 28th, 30 […]
Ad-funded VoD (AVoD) is outpacing other paid media with spend set to double to $47 billion (€41.2bn) by 2023 worldwide, according to WARC’s latest Global Ad Trends report. More broadly, both consumer and advertiser investment in OTT platforms is rising: globally, spend is projected to reach $129.3 billion in the next five years. As a […]