Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud technology infrastructure platform unit of Amazon, is to acquire software-defined video solutions specialist Elemental Technologies. The acquisition brings together Elemental’s leading video solutions with the AWS Cloud platform to provide media and entertainment companies with a range of integrated solutions to efficiently and economically scale video infrastructures as the […]
Consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that about 83 per cent of all households nationwide subscribe to some form of pay-TV service. The percentage of households that subscribe to a pay-TV service is down from 87 per cent in 2010, but up from 81 per cent in 2005. While the total number of […]
According to research from The Diffusion Group (TDG), the realities of the new ‘barbell’ economy are setting in for legacy TV operators. Today’s ‘race to the bottom’ – characterised by ‘skinny bundles’ and thinning margins – is driven in large part by the need to provide consumers on the lower end with less expensive TV […]
Ericsson has published the latest edition of its annual ConsumerLab TV & Media Report, representative of the viewing habits of 680 million consumers across the globe. The report reveals that VoD services are meeting consumer needs and enabling them to change viewing habits. Consumers now spend six hours per week watching streamed on-demand TV content […]
Portugal’s premium sports-orientated pay-TV network Sport TV has renewed carriage agreements with all national pay-TV platforms, except PT Portugal’s Meo. Sport TV, which broadcasts five sports channels (Sport TV 1-5), has made new agreements with Vodafone Portugal, Nos and Cabovisão, but not with Meo due to disagreements over carriage fees. Earlier this week, there was […]
Orange and Vodafone have accused Telefonica of a monopoly in the pay-TV business with the acquisition of Canal Plus bringing it to 80 per cent of the market. The CEO of Orange, Jean Marc Vignolles, has claimed that the competitive situation in the TV rights market is “critical” with high risks for all the players. […]
US premium streaming service Hulu is to offer a commercial-free option to subscribers. Viewers now have the choice to watch Hulu commercial free for $11.99 (€10.68) per month or with limited commercials for $7.99 per month. Current Hulu subscribers will maintain their existing subscription, but will have the choice to switch to the commercial-free option […]
Telefonica plans to turn its recently-acquired platform Canal Plus into a global pay-TV unit responsible for negotiating TV content for all the group’s regional platforms worldwide. Following the example of Netflix, Telefonica is seeking to centralise all TV content negotiations on Canal Plus to have a stronger position in the International market and even produce […]
Validating industry cord-cutting fears, in the second quarter (Q2) of 2015, pay TV companies in the United States posted their worst ever quarterly video subscriber losses, shedding 658,450 subscribers. According to critical information and
A September 1st report from equity analysts at investment banker Jefferies suggests that pay-TV operator Sky is now “heavily” dependent on its profit growth by activity in Germany and Italy. Indeed, the bank is concerned that despite Sky bringing forward its annual price hike from September to June its revenue growth remained slow. Jefferies takes […]