Premium online video services have started to gain traction in Asia Pacific but have a long way to go before achieving mass adoption, according to a new report from independent consulting and research provider Media Partners Asia (MPA). MPA, in partnership with consumer research specialist BDRC Continental, has surveyed more than 15,000 Internet users across […]
UK subscription-free satellite TV service Freesat is to carry UKTV’s Dave and Home, two of the UK’s best-known and highly-regarded television channels on the platform August 1st. Dave will be available on channel number 157 and Home on 166. Dave is one of the UK’s most-watched non-PSB channels and hosts a mix of comedy and […]
Game of Thrones, perhaps unsurprisingly, pulled in record viewing numbers for HBO in the US on Sunday night. Some 16.1 million HBO subscribers watched the first episode of season 7 – the show’s penultimate season – with 10.1 million of those viewing traditionally and the rest coming from DVR and streaming. That puts the audience […]
Modern Times Group (MTG) has reported Q2 sales of SEK 4,246 million (€444.15m) with 5 per cent organic growth. The Swedish broadcasting group operating income up 9 per cent to SEK 391 million. President & CEO Jørgen Madsen Lindemann commented: “This was the fourth consecutive quarter of at least 5 per cent organic sales growth, […]
The return of Jane Campion’s acclaimed series Top Of The Lake will be released as a full series on BBC iPlayer. All six episodes of the drama will be available to download or stream on BBC iPlayer from July 27th immediately after it premieres on BBC Two. Top Of The Lake: China Girl is a […]
SpotX, the video ad serving platform, has been appointed as the ad serving infrastructure for TVPlayer across all its inventory, including connected TV, desktop and smartphones. Advertisers and their agencies can now target TVPlayer’s one million-strong audience viewing 106 UK television channels using data-driven buying. TVPlayer enables viewers to watch the best free-to-air UK TV […]
Qwest TV brings together two generations of committed music lovers who share a single passion: jazz. This joint Franco-American collaboration between the legendary Quincy Jones and Reza Ackbaraly has given birth an SVoD platform dedicated to jazz and jazz-inspired music forms. Launching in the US autumn 2017, subscribers to Qwest TV will choose when and […]
Sky Deutschland has chosen Yospace’s dynamic ad insertion platform to monetise live channels on its TV Everywhere service Sky Go. The system allows addressable advertising to be served across Sky Deutschland’s suite of live sports coverage, including The Bundesliga and UEFA Champions League. Boris Haug, Vice President Product, Brand Solutions & Operations of Sky Media, […]
Egypt’s Competition Authority (ECA) has repeated that Qatar-based beIN Sports cannot operate or deliver its sports transmissions over Egypt. Currently, Egypt is in a diplomatic dispute with Qatar, which has not helped the situation but in fact the problems with beIN Sports go back to the earlier part of the year, and concerns access to […]
Online video viewing will rise 20 per cent in 2017, according to Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2017. Global consumers will spend an average of 47.4 minutes a day viewing videos online this year, up from 39.6 minutes in 2016. This increase will be driven by a