Cross-platform measurement specialist comScore is partnering with trade body The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) for comScore’s Digital Download Essentials Industry (DDEi) service in North America. The DDEi service, focused on efforts to further expand the market coverage of transactional movie and TV show measurement, is a leading source of industry on movie and television content […]
Recently the USA’s PBS network aired a fresh interview with Egypt’s President Al-Sisi, made with host Charlie Rose to coincide with the president’s visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly. On September 20th, Egypt’s giant ERTU public broadcaster “in error” transmitted an old interview with President Al-Sisi. The error cost News Division […]
The 73 top operators collectively accounted for 93 per cent of Western Europe’s pay-TV subscribers by end-2015, according to analyst firm Digital TV Research. Despite adding 7 million subscribers to take their total to 97.26 million, this proportion will fall slightly – to 92 per cent – of the region’s 105 million pay TV subscribers […]
Ofcom’s comprehensive review into the UK transmission market has found that Arqiva does not have “significant market power”, and Ofcom is to remove the regulatory conditions that have been in place since 2005. Back then the transmission company we now know as Arqiva started a merger and acquisition policy which brought together Crown Castle UK […]
Netflix has unveiled its “truly Turkish service”, using local language, currency and adding dozens of Turkish TV shows and movies in addition to Netflix’s original programming. Netflix also signed an agreement with its first local telco partner, mobile provider Vodafone (due to start in October), and is already working with Turkish TV manufacturer Vestel. “Turkish […]
Boznia & Herzegovina will start digital terrestrial TV transmissions on September 29th, two weeks later than originally announced, and using digital Mux A. According to the Minister of Transport and Communications Ismir Jusko the previous date was September 15th and the delay comes about because of further testing with neighbouring Croatia and other near-by nations. […]
Acclaimed filmmaker Adam Curtis will premiere his new film, HyperNormalisation, on the BBC iPlayer on October 16th. HyperNormalisation tells the story of how we got to this strange time of great uncertainty and confusion – where those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed – and have no idea what to do. And, […]
According to research from The Diffusion Group, a majority of Millennial Cord-Nevers – adult broadband users between the ages of 20 and 35 that have never signed up for a legacy pay-TV service – perceive subscription streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu satisfy their video needs. Consequently, they feel little need for a traditional […]
David Wells, Netflix chief finance officer, has said that the streaming giant is aiming for 50 per cent of its content to be original productions. Speaking at Goldman Sachs’ 25th Annual Communacopia Conference in New York, Wells said that going forward the company will be “pushing more and more” towards its goal of having half […]
Total spending on SVoD in Western Europe broke the €2 billion mark in 2015 and is forecast to reach €3 billion by year-end 2016, according to a report from IHS Markit. Typical examples of SVoD players in Western Europe are Netflix and Sky’s NOW TV, which deliver content over the open Internet and is accessed […]