Motor cycle racing’s premier category MotoGP is seeing its partnership with cloud-based video specialist Grabyo pay off as it uses social video and live streaming to grow the global community around the world championship, building its digital fan base to more than 22 million. “MotoGP is the oldest motorsport world championship but its digital strategy […]
Netgem has announced the launch of the new Netgem TV experience, designed for the UK market. Combining in one simple interface the best of ‘free-to-view’ and ‘skinny bundles’ with On-Demand streaming content, it offers: – Freeview Play provides subscription-free catch-up and On-Demand access to BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, Demand 5 and UKTV Play; […]
TVT, the global content services provider, has been selected by ITV, the UK commercial broadcaster, to provide a comprehensive content management platform for the UK and international markets. TVT will manage media logistics, content preparation and access services across all ITV’s platforms, linking closely with the ITV team and its partners to process more than […]
Streaming platform and device specialist Roku has introduced Audience Marketplace, which it suggests gives advertising buyers and sellers a new way to target audiences more effectively on the Roku platform in the US. By leveraging Roku’s first-party data and proprietary ad technology, publishers can use Audience Marketplace to sell targeted audiences on the Roku platform […]
In its latest Global Television Demand Report, Parrot Analytics, the television data analytics firm, focused on measuring global demand for content, features a four-country audience study focused on consumers’ propensity to subscribe to streaming video services in Brazil, Italy, the US and the UK. Parrot Analytics investigated consumers’ willingness to subscribe to up to four […]
Spanish TV group Mediapro has registered the VAR brand to provide the service throughout Europe. The company has received the green light from the Intellectual Property Office to use the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) branding for ten years. Mediapro will be the technological provider to La Liga in Spain, and the national leagues in Mexico […]
Germany’s RTL has revealed its pay-TV stations RTL Crime, RTL Passion and RTL Living are being dropped by Sky Deutschland from July 17th after the companies were unable to reach a deal on prices going forward. The RTL Group said it regretted that these channels would no longer be available with Sky “despite intense efforts”, […]
Brightcove, a provider of cloud services for video, has revealed findings from its market study, Asia OTT Television Research Report 2018, in partnership with YouGov, an international data and analytics group, and conducted a study that polled 5,000 participants across Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. The purpose of study was to discover how […]
Bermuda domiciled (but Philippines based) satellite operator ABS told delegates to the CASBAA event in Singapore that it was looking to develop partnerships with other operators and in the process make use of the company’s 15 potentially valuable satellite orbital slots and currently unused. Jim Simpson is the new CEO at ABS (he took over […]
Spanish multiplay telco Telefónica has been provisionally declared winner of the tender to acquire the rights to broadcast all the paid matches in the country’s top-flight football league La Liga in the residential market for the 2019-2022 cycle (packages 4 and 5). The telco will pay €980 million per season, which equates to a slight […]