PT Telkom’s Telkom-1 satellite which suffered problems on August 25th is now considered totally lost. Specialist space debris tracking company ExoAnalytic Solutions has observed several large pieces which have been tracked individually, separate to the actual satellite. ExoAnalytic can track objects down to as 0.4 metres in size, and carried out similar work back in […]
APT Satellite will on September 4th be included in the Hong Kong stock exchange’s Hang Seng Global Composite Index. The news emerged along with the operator’s 6-month results to June 30th which showed flat revenues and a lowering of its all-important fill-rate. Of its 181 available transponders in the fleet they were 68.4 per cent […]
Subscription, billing and customer relationship management (CRM) specialist Paywizard has formed a new strategic partnership with targeted user experiences for multiscreen video services expert Massive Interactive. The collaboration will enable operators to use rich data insight and predictive analytics to more effectively target subscribers and tailor the UI at the eight key ‘Decision Moments’ in […]
According to the latest Dataxis’ quarter research, in the first half of the year 2017, total online music services for 11.2 million paid accounts. Spotify leads the market with 79 per cent of subscribers followed by Deezer with 13.2 per cent. Dataxis monitors on a quarterly basis paid accounts for premium online music services in […]
OTT video services provider Easel TV has recently added SVoD with membership on Curzon’s Home Cinema service. Easel TV has combined the use of TVoD and SVoD, as well as linking SVoD with cinema membership, giving Curzon multiple ways to market and monetise its Home Cinema service. The service – CURZON12 – is curated and […]
A new free-to-air TV channel, FreeSports, has launched in the UK showing up to 10 live football games every week. The channel, operated by the team behind Premier Sports, becomes the only FTA sports channel available on Freeview, TalkTalk and BT. Sky and FreeSat are also carrying the channel, but not Virgin Media. The channel […]
According to a study from Morning Consult, 37 per cent of US Internet users shared their password for at least one streaming service account – usually Netflix – in August 2017. The study found that
Judge Haywood Gilliam has “paused” a trial taking place in California between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and pay-TV operator DirecTV. The FTC is claiming that DirecTV made unjust gains in its subscriber promotions and alleged false advertising, and that some 33 million subscribers signed up for DirecTV services without being clearly aware of the […]
IAB Australia’s Video Council – the trade association for online advertising in Australia – has released the country’s first white paper on Connected TV (CTV) which reveals that CTV now accounts for up to 35 per cent of Australian broadcaster’s online video supply. The study, Connected TV: The New Era of Television, examines why, despite […]
Leading up to the third quarter of this year, 200,000 Swedish households say they intend to sign up for an HBO Nordic subscription. The record high interest coincided with the premiere of the seventh season of Game of Thrones. This season is the most popular yet with an average of roughly 31 million viewers per […]