MoCA has added four new OEMs with headquarters and operations in Africa and Asia. More than 40 per cent of membership in the Alliance is by companies outside the US with 21 of the 51 members of international origin. “MoCA is excited with the addition of these companies and welcomes them into our membership. Their […]
IBM is buying Clearleap, a provider of cloud based video services, to boost its cloud computing initiatives. Financial details were not disclosed. Clearleap will be integrated into the IBM Cloud platform to provide enterprises with a fast and easy way to manage, monetise and grow user video experiences and deliver them securely over the Web […]
Netflix will focus on developing its own content next year and aim to nearly double the number of original shows to 31 from 16, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos has vowed. The video-streaming giant has 10 feature films, 30 kids’ series, “about a dozen” feature documentaries, 10 stand-up specials and two documentary series in various […]
Strategy Analytics believes that YouTube’s move to take on the likes of Netflix and Amazon with its own premium streaming service is doomed to fail.Mike Goodman, Director of Digital Media Strategies at Strategy Analytics, comments: “Although a premium subscription video service has long
An Ampere Analysis’ report proposes and discusses three possible future scenarios if Netflix moved into advertising. The streaming video company has been at pains to point out it has no plans to make such a move, but Ampere Analysis anticipates that Netflix’s consistent 15 per cent YoY revenue growth of the last two years will […]
OTT TV will be a big hit for consumers this Christmas, with 52 per cent of viewers around the world planning to use an online TV service during the festive season, according to a research study commissioned by Paywizard. However, although a hit at Christmas, operators like Amazon Prime, Hulu and Netflix will lose many of their […]
Convergent packages along with better infrastructure is driving pay-TV growth with almost one in four (24.4 per cent) of homes in the country receiving pay-TV services as of the end of first half other year, according to the latest report from the regulator CNMC. At the end of the second quarter, there were 5.5 million subscribers, […]
Portugal ended the third quarter of 2015 with 3.47 million pay-TV subscribers, up 1.2 per cent on the previous quarter and 5.4 per cent more than in the same period last year. According to the quarterly report of the National Communications Authority (Anacom), the penetration rate for the service has now reached 85.5 per cent. […]
Wrapping up a milestone year for next-generation television broadcasting, 10 more standards in the ATSC 3.0 suite of standards – including video encoding, Internet Protocol transport, electronic service guides and closed captioning – are moving toward “Candidate Standard” status this month, the Advanced Television Systems Committee. On the heels of approving the ATSC 3.0 transmission […]
Canal+ GROUP and iROKO are partnering to create and launch the first Francophone SVoD service aimed at bringing affordable, popular mobile TV content to French-speaking Africa. Announced as part of a multi-million euro deal, this mobile-first Android App with download functionality is set to launch in the coming months. Designed to optimise data consumption, the […]