Kantar Media has unveiled further enhancements to its real-time ratings capabilities. The updated analytics platform includes a responsive design offering the best user experience possible, as well as new features making it even easier to interpret and analyse the data. Kantar Media’s real-time ratings technology delivers live information on audience viewing for every minute of […]
OzTAM has announced that the number of homes in its television audience measurement (TAM) panels will rise by 50 per cent. The increase will enhance OzTAM’s television audience measurement, and follows OzTAM’s extension of Nielsen’s contract to supply TAM services in Australia’s five mainland capital cities and nationally for subscription television (STV). OzTAM and Nielsen’s […]
Deezer, the on-demand digital music streaming services, has expanded its international offering by launching to all consumers in the US. Available via the iOS App Store, Google Play, the Windows Store and Deezer.com, music fans can now directly access content and features, including Deezer’s signature FLOW – a personal soundtrack that intuitively knows everything listeners […]
Netflix seriously disappointed the market with its Q2 numbers released after the market had closed on July 18th. In after-hours trading its stock price crashed down 15 per cent. Investors had been expecting net new subscriber numbers of 2.5 million, but Netflix CEO Reed Hastings reported that the OTT company had managed to add only […]
This year will see mobile devices will overtake ‘fixed devices’ to become the main platform for viewing online video, according to Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2016. Consumers around the world will spend an average of 19.7 minutes a day viewing online videos on their mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), compared to 16.0 minutes on fixed […]
Global OTT TV and video revenues [for 100 countries – up from 64 in the previous edition] will reach $64.78 billion (€58.7bn) in 2021; a massive increase from $4.47 billion in 2010 and $29.41 billion in 2015. From the $35.37 billion extra revenues between 2015 and 2021, Asia Pacific will contribute $12.65 billion, Western Europe […]
Italian free-to-air platform Tivù, which brings together the country’s main broadcasters, has launched its new video on demand service TivùOn. TivùOn can be accessed by just tuning in to the channels of partner broadcasters (RAI, Mediaset, La7) and pressing the green button on the remote. The service offers the possibility of accessing TV programmes broadcast […]
The transformation and fragmentation of TV over the last decade has caused more than a few headaches for the advertising industry. The same advertisers who were once in control of seemingly captive TV viewers are now at the whim of a viewing audience with far less patience and way more options. Advertisers that adapted quickly […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, in partnership with MTM, an international research and strategy consultancy, has published initial findings from the first stage of the Pay-TV Innovation Forum, a new global research programme exploring the next phases of growth for the pay-TV industry. The first […]
Virgin Media Ireland has secured a long term agreement with Sky for the ongoing carriage of a number of Sky channels – Sky 1, Sky Living, Sky Arts and Sky News, as well as Sky Sports 1-5, Sky Sports News HQ and the newly rebranded Sky Cinema (formerly Sky Movies). The agreement will give Virgin […]