Comcast has entered into a content licensing agreement with The Walt Disney Studios to start offering a selection of digital library titles and new releases as they become available from Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney•Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Disneynature and Touchstone Pictures via the Xfinity On Demand digital store. Effective immediately, customers can buy […]
US public interest bodies Public Knowledge, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, with the help of the Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic at Stanford Law School, have filed an amicus [friend of court] brief in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that OTT platform FilmOn qualifies for the cable statutory licence. This allows […]
TV viewers worldwide are increasingly watching programmes on other screens according to research from Eurodata TV Worldwide. For example – in Canada, 60 per cent of 18 to 34 year olds watched a full TV programme online last month; In France, 6 per cent of web users aged 15 and over are watching TV programmes […]
Molotov, the OTT television distribution platform created by French media veterans JeanDavid Blanc, Pierre Lescure and Jean-Marc Denoual, will publicly launch this summer on July 11th. The service will be available to users free of charge and will be easily accessible on all screens including computers, smartphones, tablets and connected TVs. With both free-to-air and […]
US pay-TV Network STARZ has launched its STARZ digital retail service, providing STARZ streaming subscriptions directly to consumers and offering what it says is the first-ever download capabilities from a premium pay-TV streaming service. For $8.99 per month, fans now have the opportunity to enjoy instant access to more than 2,400 selections each month, including […]
Digital Media Rights (DMR) has announced the relaunch of two popular OTT channels featuring new branding and a 75 per cent increase in new content. Midnight Pulp is a channel featuring highly curated genre films and television programmes specialising in horror, cult, paranormal, sci-fi and action whilst Asian Crush offers one of the largest selections […]
NeuLion, a technology product and service provider specialising in the broadcasting, distribution and monetisation of live and on-demand digital video content to Internet-enabled devices, and Spanish multimedia communications group MEDIAPRO are teaming up to provide live 4K delivery of the upcoming match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, taking place at the Camp Nou Stadium […]
Three million viewers aged 15 and above now watch live or catch-up TV each day and average around 1 hour and 40 minutes on a computer, tablet or smartphone. This is 200,000 people more than last year, according to a TV study by Médiamétrie. In comparison, 8 out of 10 still watch TV every day. […]
While New Zealanders increasingly use mobile devices to watch video content, 3.2 million New Zealanders aged 10+ (84 per cent) are viewing over 23 hours of broadcast TV through their TV sets across a week. In comparison, online New Zealanders spend 15 hours per week using the Internet. The latest New Zealand Multi-Screen Report by […]
AIS, the Thai mobile operator, will carry five Turner channels on its Playbox OTT service and Play mobile app effective immediately. Almost 40 million AIS mobile subscribers are now able to live stream the five linear channels as well as watch catch-up content from Warner TV, World Heritage Channel, HLN, Boomerang and Toonami. Phil Nelson, […]