Findings from analyst house Juniper Research indicate that global consumer spend on digital content will reach $202 billion (€175bn) in 2018, up by 10 per cent on this year’s total of $184 billion. The research found that SVoD services will be a key driver of growth, with major OTT players such as Netflix and Amazon […]
The golden age of television is just getting started, according to Gary Davey, Managing Director, Content at Sky. Writing an Opinion piece in The Daily Telegraph, Davey says there has never been a better time for it. “But not according to the BBC. In a speech last week, Tony Hall, the BBC director-general, said the […]
Ofcom has ruled that the Fox News shows Hannity and Tucker Carlson Tonight breached British broadcasting impartiality rules. The rulings referred to the Manchester Arena bombing in May and Donald Trump’s executive order in January that restricted travel to the US from seven majority-Muslim countries. Sky pulled Fox News from its platform in Britain in […]
Members and supporters of the newly-established Coalition Against Piracy gathered at the annual CASBAA Convention in Macau on November 7th to mark the initiation of joint work in southeast Asia against Illicit Streaming Devices (ISDs) and the app networks that underpin them. In toasting the launch, Birathon Kasemsri, Chief Commercial Officer, True Visions Group, described […]
Sci-fi fans can immerse themselves in a new experimental interactive voice experience from the BBC called The Inspection Chamber. Available for Amazon Alexa and coming to other platforms in the future, the user plays an active role as the fourth character in a story inspired by video games like The Stanley Parable and Papa Sangre […]
The largest Spanish pay-TV operators – Telefónica, Orange and Vodafone – have rejected paying huge fees for the Champions League TV rights and will reportedly seek to negotiate downwards the renewal of the contracts with Mediapro, owner of the rights, next year. The operators are finding it difficult to make football rights profitable at the […]
The 2016/2017 sporting season, a year without major events such as the World Cup or the Olympic Games, has been a year of increased opportunities for less mediatised sporting events and competitions. In its Women’s Sport Insight Report, Eurodata TV Worldwide investigates the new visibility of women’s sports on TV in Europe and the US […]
Consumer data released from the Australian Home Entertainment Distributors Association (AHEDA) indicates that in-home consumption of video has benefited from industry efforts to combat film and TV piracy. New research by GfK shows that in Q3 2017 (July – September), just 16 per cent of Australians claimed to have watched pirated content in the previous […]
Intel has revealed plans to bring gaming experiences to PyeongChang ahead of next February’s Olympic Winter Games. As an extension of Intel’s Worldwide TOP Partnership and with support from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Intel will deliver two distinct gaming experiences to Korea in the lead up to PyeongChang 2018: the Intel Extreme Masters PyeongChang […]
Vubiquity has agreed a deal with cellular operator Cell C, to provide new and exclusive content and entertainment services throughout South Africa. The deal encompasses a substantial linear channel entertainment bundle provided to Cell C via Vubiquity and their partners. The deal also covers the licensing and distribution of VoD covering SVoD, TVoD and the […]