Producer and Distributor Prime Entertainment Group has announced a package deal with major music broadcaster Stingray for more than 40 Hours of live concerts. Stingray primarily broadcasts music across over 400 uninterrupted channel feeds available worldwide to more than 400 million households every day. The channels offer a full range of music shows in all […]
The eSports phenomenon continues to gain momentum with a business expected to reach over a billion dollars in revenue this year, comprising games publishers revenues, media rights, event ticket sales and merchandise, advertising and sponsorship, this figure is expected to triple over the next five years. With a growing fan base of over 450 million […]
Technology and content start-up Fiction Riot has partnered with non-profit foundation DECENT, a global provider of blockchain technology, to become one of the first streaming services to pay royalties utilising blockchain. The resulting ‘smart contracts’ are designed to deliver genuine transparency of payments in US dollars for all parties involved in production of streaming content […]
With the variety of options to watch programmes, the key asset relies on the intrinsic quality of the show, and on the ability to optimise the distribution on relevant platforms. The Eurodata TV 2018 review of international TV content trends, focuses on successful programmes and broadcasting strategies. Frédéric Vaulpré, Vice-President of Eurodata TV Worldwide, said: […]
European rugby union’s premier international tournament the Guinness Six Nations Championship has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) analytics, machine learning, and deep learning services to deliver more in-depth insight into the Championship and enhance the match experience for rugby fans around the world. As well as providing the technology behind the live broadcast of on-screen […]
Com Hem has been awarded the Fastest broadband network title by Guinness World Records. In 2018, during DreamHack Summer in Jönköping, Com Hem supplied a broadband connection of 1.6 terabits per second. It is now established by Guinness World Records, that it was the fastest internet connection ever used simultaneously by a large group of […]
Sky News is set to offer its viewers unprecedented access to every aspect of its digital, television, and radio operations during a full day of live ‘behind the scenes’ broadcasting. Sky News Raw, which will be broadcast on its own pop-up channel, will run from 7am-5pm on February 5th – 30 years to the day […]
Digi-Capital tracked startups raising over $6 billion across AR/VR/computer vision in 2018, driven by large, late-stage deals in China. A decline in deal volumes (number of deals) during the first three quarters of the year stabilised in Q4, while deal value (dollars invested) returned to a two-year average after large spikes from a few mega-deals […]
Award-winning British dramas Bodyguard, Killing Eve and McMafia have been revealed as the top programmes requested on BBC iPlayer in 2018. The most popular show of the year was Bodyguard, with the first episode becoming BBC iPlayer’s biggest ever programme, with 10.8 million requests across the year. All six episodes of the political thriller appear […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has extended its content protection partnership with kbro, Taiwan’s number one cable operator, to include the service provider’s new 4K service delivered over a hybrid cable and OTT network. A NAGRA customer since 2009, kbro has deployed NAGRA Connect in […]