News consumers all over the world continued to come to CNN across all platforms for news and information in June 2020, with CNN reaching more users than any other digital news platform. According to Comscore, 162 million US unique visitors came to CNN’s digital properties in June 2020. It is the fourth largest month for […]
Viu, a pan-regional OTT video service from PCCW Media Group, has acquired exclusive OTT rights from Fuji TV to bring 12 iconic Takuya Kimura titles, including Long Vacation, Love Generation, and the Hero series to its viewers. Kimura (also known as Kimutaku) is an iconic figure in the Japanese entertainment industry. He was a member […]
Ateme, a specialist in video delivery solutions, has announced that Movistar+, the audiovisual entertainment arm of Spanish media leader, the Telefónica Group, has chosen to implement Ateme’s Titan solution, a future-proof converged software headend, for distribution of its live DTH/OTT services. “After so many years of working with the Telefónica Group worldwide, we are very […]
Video delivery specialist Synamedia has confirmed that UAE’s largest muliplay operator, Etisalat, has launched SwitchTV, a new direct-to-consumer (D2C) service based on Synamedia’s Infinite cloud TV platform and its end-to-end video network portfolio. Etisalat chose to work with Synamedia because its technologies provide the flexibility, security and agility needed to support, monetise and scale a […]
Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has agreed a sublicensing deal with subscription OTT platform DAZN for two MotoGP races later this in 2020. RTVE will broadcast the Styria Grand Prix from Austria and the Aragon Grand Prix from Spain later this year with the first running from August 16th to 18th and the second from October […]
Eurosport is set to kick-start its exclusive on-site coverage of the World Snooker Championships by showing every round – including qualifying – from July 21st across Europe in more than 50 markets. The main draw of snooker’s biggest event will also be broadcast live from July 31st across Eurosport channels and the Eurosport App alongside […]
Rolling news channel BFMTV, part of converged media and telecoms group Altice, has launched ‘Live Vertical’, a new smartphone user experience, which it claims is a world first. Developed in collaboration with French start-up Wildmoka, the solution automatically converts the horizontal frames of standard TV streams to a vertical format better suited to smartphone screens. […]
Content protection services provider Friend MTS has joined The Digital Production Partnership (DPP), an international media industry organisation and business network. In DPP’s global effort to bring customers and suppliers together to solve problems and create opportunities across the whole content supply chain, Friend MTS’s membership offers industry expertise around content protection services as it […]
The Financial Police in the city of Venice have dismantled a criminal organisation dedicated to the online sale of subscriptions for the illegal viewing of the major pay-TV platforms. The platform was accessed by over 65,000 end customers, who paid €10 per month, using special Postepay cards. The investigation revealed that the payment cards were […]
According to cybersecurity specialist Kaspersky, 2019 was officially the year the Streaming Wars kicked off, as nearly all major networks hurried to profit from consumers’ new, preferred method of consuming content: streaming platforms. The company suggests that cyberthreats aren’t relegated to the world of big businesses and large-scale campaigns, with the most frequent attacks actually […]