According to global information company,The NPD Group, while traditional pay TV operators and broadcast networks still dominate the consumer television landscape, new options are emerging, from subscription video on demand (SVoD), to electronic sell-through (EST), to free TV streaming. According to the firm, while SVoD drives the most online TV streams by far, the incidence […]
YouView is estimated to have up to 230,000 subscribers six months after launch, with TalkTalk revealing that it is seeing demand running at more than 10,000 sign-ups per week. This contrasts with reportedly very slow sales through retailers. The joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, Channel 5, Arqiva and TalkTalk finally began […]
BT has reported over 60,000 TV customers with YouView connected TV boxes and revealed it signed up 21,000 BT Vision customers in the quarter to the end of December. It ended its fiscal third quarter with 770,000 BT Vision customers ahead of its big summer push for subscribers following its acquisition of Premier League football […]
The growth of the US IPTV market continued to decelerate in the fourth quarter of 2012, due to the impact of Hurricane Sandy and the slowing expansion of Verizon’s FiOS service. The two major US IPTV players, Verizon and AT&T, reported a combined gain of 326,000 video subscribers in the fourth quarter, down 19 per […]
As anticipated at its July 2012 launch, Sky has enhanced its NOW TV OTT service by making Sky Sports available on a simple, pay-as-you-go basis. The broadcaster had suggested that sport would launch before the end of 2012. For just £9.99 (€11.65), customers will be able to get unlimited access for a 24-hour period to […]
Despite claims by Netflix that rival entertainment streaming services such as Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Redbox Instant are no threat to it in the subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) space, Tim Swann, Account Specialist, Entertainment at the NPD Group contends that Redbox will in fact be a formidable threat to Netflix for SVoD of movies. Writing in […]
comScore, a specialist in measuring the digital world, has released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 182 million US Internet users watched 38.7 billion online videos in December, while video ad views totaled 11.3 billion. Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing on YouTube, ranked as the top online video content property […]
UPC Cablecom has launched its Horizon entertainment platform in Switzerland – becoming the second country where Liberty Global has launched the service after launching in The Netherlands in September 2012. The Horizon box offers features including a 3D user interface and the ability to record up to four channels at any one time and enables […]
Saudi Telecom has reported that the subscriber base for its ‘InVision’ IPTV service swelled by more than 190 per cent in 2012. Saudi Telecom is estimated to have reached 35,000 IPTV subscribers by July 2012, with the total predicted to increase to 70,000 by the end of 2012, and will go on to surpass 200,000 […]
Google has confirmed that the upcoming CES show in Las Vegas will see further details unveiled of Google TV devices and services. Writing in the Google TV blog, Suveer Kothari and Mickey Kim of Google TV Partnerships, note that last November, Google TV was updated to make it faster and easier to access users’ favourite […]