Sky has invested €4 million in French OTT platform Molotov, which distributes free and pay-TV channels and content to consumers via a freemium model. This investment is part of a larger Molotov financing round and is the latest in a series of Sky investments in innovative start-up companies. Molotov was founded in 2014 by JeanDavid […]
According to the findings of The Pay-TV Innovation Landscape in Latin America, the fourth in a global series of white paper from the Pay-TV Innovation Forum, a global research programme from content protection provider NAGRA, in partnership with international research and strategy consultancy MTM, the region features solid growth potential yet accounts for less than […]
Findings from Parks Associates’ OTT Video Market Tracker service indicate that Netflix, WWE Network, and Hulu have the highest Net Promoter Scores among major OTT video services in the US. The international research firm notes that adoption of OTT video subscriptions has increased by 12 per cent since Q3 2014, with the number of available […]
Heathrow Express passengers will be kept up to date with a new BBC World News onboard service, launched on September 1, which will provide one-minute news and business bulletins on the 15-minute journey to and from Heathrow and Paddington. The bulletins will be delivered through the existing Express TV service, which are positioned on screens […]
The 17th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of The Indian Broadcasting Foundation has elected Punit Goenka (Managing Director & CEO, Zee Entertainment Enterprises) as the Foundation’s President. Goenka said, “I am delighted to lead the Indian broadcasting sector at a time when there is a lot of churning and India is being looked upon as global […]
The Swedish State has approved Com Hem’s SEK 1,330 million (€144m) acquisition of pay-TV operator Boxer TV-Access AB, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Teracom Boxer Group AB. Com Hem now awaits the Swedish Competition Authority’s approval before the acquisition can be completed. Boxer is a pay-TV operator in the DTT network in Sweden with approximately 500,000 […]
Indian DTH platform Videocon d2h has selected the Cisco Virtual DCM to provide its subscribers with superior video experiences. The deployment provides Videocon d2h with a flexible infrastructure and simplified operations for advanced video processing functionality taking advantage of virtualisation and orchestration from Cisco’s Virtualized Video Processing (V2P) platform. The Virtual DCM provides Videocon d2h […]
Connected device apps for the monetisation of video services are now the second most used method for consumers subscribing to OTT services, according to a new Parks Associates whitepaper, sponsored by Ooyala. The whitepaper, Connected Apps: The New Battleground for Video Services, shows more than 25 per cent of OTT video service subscriptions were purchased […]
Canal+ Group’s SVoD platform Canalplay lost around 91,000 subscribers in France in the first half of 2016. On June 30th, the service has 614,000 subscribers against 705,000 for the same period last year – a near15 per cent decrease. Canalplay, whose results would previously compensate the subscription losses linked to pay TV Canal+ channel and […]
CBS has announced the launch of a commercial-free plan for the CBS All Access subscription service in the US. In addition to the existing subscription offering of $5.99 (€5.37) per month, subscribers now have the option to watch CBS All Access’s on-demand content commercial-free for $9.99 per month. “The foundation of CBS All Access is […]