Tim Davie, CEO of BBC Worldwide, has suggested that the corporation’s commercial arm still has a lot of organic growth potential from its activities, admitting that in the past, such growth had often come from acquisition of ‘low-hanging’ properties. Davie, who assumed the role April 2nd following a spell as Acting Director-General following the resignation […]
Viewster, a rapidly-growing ‘free on demand’ service for movies and TV shows, has bolstered its management team with the appointments of Helen Biggart as CFO, Tzvetan Horozov as SVP of Product Management and Philipp Rotermund as SVP Business Development. High demand for video advertising has also spurred new office openings in New York, London, Singapore […]
In common with digital music downloads, the decade-old iTunes Store leveraged first-mover advantage, and popular devices, to command the lead in digital downloads of movies and TV shows, according to global information company The NPD Group. The firm says that Apple dominates the home digital-video sector, in much the same way it dominates digital music. […]
The market for Blu-ray (BD) and DVD rental in the UK is expected to plunge by 22 per cent in 2013, as half the country’s Blockbuster video stores shut down in a restructuring initiated by the company’s new management. The UK market for physical-video rental will drop to £202 million in 2013, down £57 million, […]
Access Digital Entertainment is preparing to launch EzyFlix.tv in Australia, allowing users to download or stream films and TV shows on any connected devices including smartphones, tablets, PCs and Smart TVs. Craig White, CEO of Access Digital Entertainment, said he plans to launch EzyFlix.tv in early May with more than 2,000 new and recent movies […]
The new Amazon Originals TV pilots from Amazon Studios, were the most watched TV shows across Amazon Instant Video over their first weekend, making up 8 out of 10 of the most streamed episodes across the video service. The pilots are available exclusively at www.amazonoriginals.com and on the Amazon Instant Video app for Kindle Fire […]
New software for the YouView Humax box is now available for retail and BT customers and will be rolled out over the next two weeks. The software will be available on Talk Talk YouView boxes shortly afterwards This software introduces a number of enhancements and new features: – An enhancement to searching for programmes that […]
Virgin Media has added 21 new channels to its cloud service Virgin TV Anywhere. The channels Animal Planet, Cartoonito, Channel 4, Discovery Channel, Discovery History, Discovery Home & Health, Discovery Science, Discovery Shed, Discovery Turbo, Dmax, I.D. and More 4 are now available on both its iOS app and browser-based platform Virgin has also added […]
Spain’s Mediaset, owner of Tele 5 and Cuatro, is integrating its commercial units of TV and Internet jointly to market advertising in a 360º strategy in an attempt to boost ad revenues at a time when TV advertising has dropped by 15 per cent in the first quarter of the year. Advertising on pay TV […]
Movie search website FindAnyFilm.com has added a number of UltraViolet-enabled titles to its website. This comes with a series of other new features to the site, including improved design and the integration of the EE Film Store data from the UK’s first 4G network provider. With the aim of quickly connecting audiences with legal content […]