UK broadcast industry professional media network Digital Production Partnership (DPP) has released the first ever assessment of where broadcasters, producers and suppliers can expect to see the greatest return on investment from committing to IP-based production. The DPP Survey Report: The Business Benefits of IP Production is the result of extensive research with companies from […]
New, much smarter UK set-top boxes from Sky (SkyQ) and TiVo increasingly tend to use the first EPG ‘landing page’ for promotions of programmes, sports events and movies. Older boxes (Sky+, cable STBs) were obliged to give “due prominence” to the UK’s 5 national networks (BBC1, BBC2, ITV, C4 and Channel 5). In a major […]
The Q4 (October-December) 2016 Australian Multi-Screen Report – from Regional TAM, OzTAM and Nielsen – continues to document how growing content, platform and screen choices have caused a gradual shift in the way consumers apportion their viewing across devices. Australians are voracious consumers of broadcast TV and other video, and as of Q4 2016 had a dizzying array of options by which to […]
Starz Play, the on-demand video streaming service available in 19 countries across the MENA region, has announced a new deal with NBCUniversal International Distribution to offer its subscribers popular TV box-sets and TV series currently available in the US as well as top-rated films. The new additions will include current critically acclaimed TV shows like […]
Today marks the release of TracePlay in the US, UK, Africa, France, Benelux, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean, with over 200 countries to follow towards the end of March 2017. TracePlay, a hybrid digital service (SVoD + Live TV + Live Radio) dedicated to Urban music and entertainmen, is available across a range of […]
Parks Associates has released digital media research at the TV Connect Show in London showing that 59 per cent of pay-TV subscribers in US broadband households are bothered by the fact that advertisers use their personal viewing data to push personalised ads to them. The International research firm also
US broadcasting and cable giant Comcast is planning to rebrand and expand a streaming video option for broadband subscribers who do not wish to pay for a traditional cable package, according to a Reuters report. The service, tentatively branded Xfinity Instant TV, will be priced between $15 (€13.80) and $40 a month depending on the […]
Arianespace’s rocket launch schedule has continued to suffer from a workers’ strike in French Guiana, which has now gone on for more than a week. The Ariane 5 rocket is patiently waiting for the civil unrest to die down, although in the past few days Air France has cancelled all flights to the French overseas […]
Global internet advertising expenditure will grow 13 per cent to reach $205 billion (€189bn) in 2017, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts. Internet advertising will attract 36.9 per cent of all advertising expenditure, up from 34 per cent in 2016. This will be
Telefónica is launching a new multi device functionality that will allow its subscribers to control and manage their pay-TV service through the mobile phone or the tablet. The new service, integrated into the multidevice offer Movistar 360, will become available in the first week of May and enable users to select and send TV content […]