Lord Sugar is to step down from his role as non-executive chairman of YouView in the next few weeks. During his two-year tenure, Sugar was credited with being instrumental in the successful launch of the open IPTV service, with YouView now claiming to be the fastest growing TV platform in the UK. He took over […]
TV ratings company Nielsen has revealed plans to expand their definition of “TV” to include viewers watching TV over broadband. The new definition of a “TV household,” is any household with “at least one operable TV/monitor with the ability to deliver video via traditional means of antennae, cable [set-top box] or satellite receiver and/or with […]
A third of Germans aged 16-29 are increasingly using time-shifted Internet TV services rather than broadcast channels, according to a survey carried out by Ipsos for Kabel Deutschland (KDG). About 70 per cent of young adults accessed online services via a smartphone, compared with 47 per cent of the population as a whole and only […]
John Farrel, a YouTube regional director, has made a bold prediction saying that by 2020 some 75 per cent of audiovisual content will be consumed via broadband. Farrel is YouTube’s Latin America director, and while he didn’t quite claim that YouTube would be the dominant supplier, he stated that “TV has been the leading media […]
YOU On Demand, a Pay-Per-View and VoD platform service in China, has signed a distribution agreement with Tianjin IPTV which covers households across 16 major districts and counties in the greater Tianjin metropolitan area. YOU On Demand will officially launch with Tianjin IPTV immediately following the completion of the Chinese New Year celebration. The signing […]
ZenithOptimedia has published its New Media Forecasts identifying the top 19 digital markets across the world, ranked according to a combination of absolute size and percentage of total adspend taken by internet expenditure. The study has examined how consumers in these markets use digital media; how Internet advertising, social media and e-commerce are developing; and […]
Comcast Corporation and Fox Networks (FN) have reached an agreement for a new distribution pact to deliver Fox Broadcasting’s (FOX) and Fox Television Stations’ (FTS) wide array of entertainment, sports and local news content to Comcast Xfinity TV customers across televisions, computers, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and Internet-enabled televisions. The renewal supports the companies’ mutual […]
The number of Swisscom TV connections increased year-on-year by 183,000 (30 per cent) according to the Swiss telco’s full year figures. Around 200,000 Swisscom TV customers are already testing the replay function, which allows programmes from around 70 channels to be watched up to 30 hours after they have been broadcast. Additionally, around 80 per […]
The worldwide Pay-TV market grew at a steady pace in 2012 generating $238 billion by end-of-year, up from $223 billion in 2011, according to ABI Research’s Pay-TV ARPU and Revenues Market Data. The global Pay-TV market is expected to generate $304 billion in 2018 with a CAGR of 4 per cent. Service revenue contributions from […]
Nativ, the media management and workflow expert, has published an independent report outlining the shortcomings and challenges of Internet delivery and is setting out its vision for helping the market overcome these. In recent years the consumption of content over Internet-enabled devices has exploded. There is a rush to dominate the Internet TV service proposition […]