Significant shifts are underway in how Africa’s Entertainment and media (E&M) companies compete and generate value, as the quality of the experience they deliver to consumers becomes their primary basis for strategic differentiation and revenue growth. To thrive in a marketplace that is increasingly competitive and crowded, companies are focusing on implementing strategies and building […]
A report by researchers at QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre shows that Australian consumers are still disadvantaged compared to consumers in the US when it comes to accessing digital media. Key findings of the Australian Access to Digital Media Markets report: Music albums are 24 per cent more expensive in Australia; games are 20 per […]
Equity analyst Giles Thorne at investment bank Jefferies came out note to clients on September 19th covering the recent announcement from SES that it was ordering seven MEO satellites from Boeing as additional craft for its O3b fleet. Currently, SES is the only satellite operator to cover most of the planet with both geostationary and Middle […]
US pay-TV provide DISH is to deliver select college football games from FOX Sports’ FS1 in 4K, beginning with the Oklahoma-Baylor match-up on Saturday, September 23rd. Games will be simulcast in the format every weekend on DISH channel 540 throughout the football season for Hopper 3 customers. “DISH has offered 4K-ready set-top boxes for three […]
US TV network CBS has subscribed to Nielsen’s National Out-of-Home Reporting Service. The agreement is effective immediately and provides CBS with out-of-home viewing data, including ratings for all programming and commercial content that aired on the Network for live plus seven days of time-shifted viewing. “Being able to measure CBS’ content and uncover additional viewers […]
Nielsen will collaborate with clypd, an audience-based sales platform for television networks. The syndicated service will offer the advertising ecosystem a fully integrated, linear TV targeting solution that aims to benefit marketers, agencies, buying platforms and publishers seeking to plan and buy on demographics beyond age and gender. “The collaboration between Nielsen and clypd will […]
Western European SVoD revenues will increase to $6.5 billion (€5.46bn) by 2022, up from $2.8 billion in 2016. SVoD became the region’s largest OTT revenue source in 2016 by overtaking AVoD. SVoD’s share of OTT revenues will continue to grow, according to the Western Europe OTT TV & Video Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. […]
Netflix accounts for 63 per cent of the SVoD viewing time in France, well ahead of rivals Canalplay (19 per cent), Amazon and SFR Play (6 per cent each), as well as kid’s SVoD platform Gulli max (3 per cent). Netflix is also home to seven of the 10 most viewed titles, with Narcos, 13 Reasons […]
YouTube has confirmed it will stop offering paid channels, which were launched in 2013 as one of the video portal’s first attempts at charging for content. The service let people pay a monthly fee to access individual YouTube channels from providers such as National Geographic and Sesame Street. However, the service was not popular with […]
Intelsat has just signed a capacity deal with its Epic satellite to supply bandwidth to the UAE’s Etisalat telco. A report from equity analysts at investment bank Jefferies, says the agreement is “on the face of it neither unexpected, nor material in nature, nor likely to bother consensus. But it nonetheless goes to the heart […]