The Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU) – set up to combat the threat of organised crime across the seven police forces in the Eastern Region of the United Kingdom – has secured the repayment of more than £13,000 (€14,926) from a convicted trader, after he had evaded payment for over two years. William Marston, […]
A recent study of the content viewing behaviour of Thai consumers, commissioned by the Asia Video Industry Association’s (AVIA) Coalition Against Piracy (CAP), and conducted by YouGov, has revealed that 45 per cent of consumers use a TV box which can be used to stream pirated television and video content. These TV boxes, also known […]
Research from Parks Associates finds 24 per cent of UK broadband households that own a smart speaker with personal assistant would like to control their smart TV via this device, nearly twice as many as any other device. “In the UK, the NPS [Net Promoter Score] of smart speakers is negative, so Amazon, Google Home, […]
Wurl has entered into an agreement with Samsung to power select programming on Samsung’s new TV Plus service. Integrated with millions of Samsung Smart TVs, TV Plus is a new Internet-based TV service delivering a bundle of live channels and on-demand content from multiple media brands. For Samsung Smart TV owners, the Samsung and Wurl […]
Conviva, the real-time measurement and intelligence platform for streaming TV, has released its State of the Streaming TV Industry Report for Q3 2018, which shows huge growth in global TV streaming. According to the data, a 52 per cent jump in plays and 63 per cent growth in total viewing hours was recorded year-over-year (YoY), including […]
Extreme Reach, the complete creative asset management platform for the ad industry, has released its Q3 2018 Video Advertising Benchmarks based on metrics from its third-party video ad server. The report offers insights based on key performance metrics. This most recent analysis of data on click-through, completion and viewability rates for video ads served on desktop, […]
As TV-connected devices become commonplace in US homes, more consumers are choosing to rent and purchase digital movies. As of August 2018, 61 million households in the US had at least one Internet-connected TV, video game console, Blu-ray Disc player or streaming media player, representing year over year growth of three million homes, according to […]
The Auckland High Court has ruled that Internet-streaming service My Box cannot be represented as legal, and that using My Box (and other units like it) to show SKY movies, TV and sports programmes breaches copyright. Sophie Moloney, SKY’s General Counsel, welcomed the ruling. “This decision, along with the recent ruling against Fibre TV boxes in […]
Programmatic advertising platform Simpli.fi has unveiled what it says is a significant enhancement of its advanced TV capabilities, including nationwide addressable targeting, intent-based behavioural targeting, and granular demographic targeting for OTT and Connected TV (CTV) inventory. In addition to launching three methods of audience targeting on OTT/CTV inventory, Simpli.fi’s solution now also delivers the ability […]
The UK’s Minister for Intellectual Property, Sam Gyimah, has highlighted the continued Government clampdown on users and providers of illicit streaming boxes who cause damage to the nation’s £92 billion (€103.45bn) creative industries. It comes as the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) publishes its response to a Call for Views on illicit streaming. This finds that […]