TV advertising still generates $175bn worldwide and fuels many FTA networks. Now the oldest form of TV revenue is needed to monetize the OTT services of broadcasters and pay-TV operators. The audience is, by its very nature, fragmented but the data generated by OTT should provide the information to target ads right down to individuals. […]
Netflix has released its latest subscriber numbers for Q1 2017, which showed growth of 1.42 million US subs and 3.53 million international. This 4.95 million total is good, but it falls short of Netflix’s own projections for the first quarter of 5.2 million. The failure to deliver hit Netflix’s share price which initially fell 3 […]
With Netflix CEO Reed Hastings advising shareholders that the streaming service expects to cross the 100 million-member mark this weekend, Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer, has suggested that the next 100 million subscribers are going to be far more likely to be watching content on mobile than the first 100 million. Speaking during Netflix’s Q1 […]
The proposed merger between India’s Dish TV and rival Videocon d2h is scheduled to complete by October, said a statement from Dish TV CEO Arun Kapoor. “We have to receive approvals from regulatory bodies like the Competition Commission of India, National Company Law Tribunal and stock exchanges. The merger is expected to be completed by […]
Set-top box maker Arris is being investigated by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) over alleged patent infringements on boxes supplied to a number of US cable MSOs as well as DirecTV’s Genie users. The allegations come from two Sony subsidiaries (Sony Corp, from Tokyo and Sony Electronics, based in San Diego) and say that […]
Florida residents must pay a higher tax if viewing programming from satellite rather than cable TV. The Florida Supreme Court made the ruling on April 13th and overturned an earlier court decision that tax rates for satellite or cable viewing should be the same. Both DirecTV and Dish Network had initially sued the state (back […]
Bitmovin, an encoding, player and analytics provider and co-creator of the MPEG-DASH video streaming standard, has joined the Alliance for Open Media. The Alliance for Open Media is a non-profit organisation working to define and develop media technologies that address the need for an open standard for video compression and delivery over the web. As […]
Most 86 years-olds are resting up and regarding each new day as a bonus. Not Rupert Murdoch, for him another day is another deal. So, it must still be extra frustrating when one of the deals you really want to do keeps being nixed by circumstances beyond your control – or, at least, circumstances you […]
The UK government’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is launching a consultation to seek views on how public service broadcaster Channel 4 can most effectively contribute to regional economic growth, stimulate regional creative industries, and better serve regional audiences to deliver a stronger economy and a fairer society. Channel 4 Corporation (C4C) is […]
Jonathan Thompson, Chief Executive of Digital UK, the body which supports digital terrestrial TV in the UK and provides operational support for the Freeview DTT platform, has suggested that Silicon Valley’s view of the broadcasting sector is based on “flimsy evidence and half-truths”, warning of the risk of wrong public policy decisions being made as […]