Qatar-based beIN Sports is suffering much the same fate as its sister Al Jazeera news channel as part of the fall-out of the diplomatic row between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Reuters is quoting Saudi Arabia’s state press agency saying that the Kingdom has banned the import and sale of beIN Sports digital set-top boxes, and […]
Consumers worldwide increasingly depend on smartphones to access digital content and tend to go online to purchase video games, movies and books, according to the latest State of Digital Downloads research report – based on a survey of 3,500 consumers ranging in age, gender, and education in France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, the UK, and […]
Thirty leading content creators and on-demand entertainment companies from around the world have launched the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market for creative content and reducing online piracy. The worldwide members of ACE are Amazon, AMC Networks, BBC Worldwide, Bell Canada and Bell Media, Canal+ […]
There have been many studies about pay-TV cord-cutters, but a lot of analysis relies on self-reported survey data that can’t fully measure important details about viewing behaviour. comScore has now analysed the OTT viewing habits of households in its “Total Home” behavioural measurement panel – those which previously subscribed to cable or satellite, but no […]
Sky has built on its content offering with a new agreement to broadcast exclusively, with the Perform Group as sub-licensee, the UEFA Champions League in Germany and Austria. Sky Deutschland will broadcast the 2018/19 season through to 2020/21 across satellite, cable, IPTV, web and mobile platforms. “We are extremely pleased with this result which means […]
A survey from Videa reveals that just 39 per cent of US consumers say they are somewhat, mostly, or completely comfortable with advertisers collecting Smart TV data, while 48 per cent were somewhat, mostly, or completely uncomfortable with this. People were
The European Audiovisual Observatory has published a report on the origin of films and TV content in VoD catalogues in the EU & visibility of films. The Strasbourg-based Observatory, part of the Council of Europe, examined the catalogues of 68 transactional VoD services in the European Union (such as Apple’s iTunes, Microsoft’s Movies, Wuaki.tv, Chili […]
The future of Ten Network is in doubt after big shareholders, including Lachlan Murdoch, son of News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch, decided not to back a financial restructuring. Financial advisers to Illyria Limited, an investment vehicle linked to Lachlan Murdoch that owns 7.7 per cent of Ten, told the company that it would not extend […]
Last week’s investment of $480 million (€428m) by pay-radio operator SiriusXM into music streaming service Pandora leaves far more questions unanswered than answered. The deal has yet to proceed through various hurdles, but assuming the deal wraps, then SiriusXM will have an 18 per cent stake in Pandora, and with Pandora saying it will use […]
Netflix has released May data from its ISP Speed Index, a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime-time Netflix streaming experience. Several speed gains took place on the index in May, with Telstra in Australia experiencing the biggest speed increase at 0.46 Megabits per second (Mbps). This increased Telstra’s average […]