OTT platforms are ramping up the battle with pay-TV providers to offer 4K UHD content with the confirmation from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment that the studio’s new 4K Ultra HD movie streaming service, ULTRA, will debut April 4, 2016 on Sony 4K Ultra HD TVs with Android TV in the United States. “Consumers are rapidly […]
UK multi-play operator EE – now part of BT – has unveiled Recordings To Go, a feature designed to set new standards in how consumers access and watch the TV they love. Claiming a UK first, EE says that TV lovers can select content from any of EE TV’s 70+ free-to-view channels to record and […]
Parks Associates has published international data from the company’s OTT Video Market Tracker service showing OTT video usage in Western Europe is continuing to expand, with 55 per cent of UK broadband households and 51 per cent in France watching TV programming and movies online, compared to 70 per cent in the US However,
Spaniards are increasingly using VoD to watch movies and TV series. A report from Nielsen reveals that 47 per cent of TV viewers use VoD in line with the trend in the rest of Europe where 50 per cent are VoD users. Only one in four says they use it daily, however. The top content […]
Canstar Blue has gauged the public perception of SVoD services in Australia to find out if Netflix is the king of the content castle, or whether another service was in fact winning the battle for TV screens (or devices). To do that, the research company asked almost 2,000 Australians adults to
Tru Optik, the audience measurement and data management platform built for OTT and Connected TV, has partnered with Experian Marketing Services, a specialist in data-driven marketing and cloud-based marketing technology, to offer a service providing real-time census-level viewer data for OTT TV programmes and ad exposure across all screens. Tru Optik clients will be able […]
Has America become a marathon nation when it comes to video content consumption? Indications point to “yes”. Seventy per cent of US consumers now binge watch an average of five episodes at a time, and almost one-third (31 per cent) binge on a weekly basis according to Deloitte’s 10th Digital Democracy Survey. In addition to […]
Ofcom has published its UK Home Broadband Performance, comparing the performance of 18 popular broadband packages, from seven major Internet service providers. Virgin Media’s 100Mbit/s and 200Mbit/s services provided the fastest average actual download speeds of all the ISP packages included in the report. Its ‘up to’ 200Mbit/s service recorded the highest average actual download […]
Deluxe Entertainment Services has announced that the company’s multiscreen and OTT delivery platform, Deluxe OnDemand, has expanded its content protection services to include complete support for FairPlay Streaming (FPS) technology with 32-bit encryption for iOS devices and Apple platforms. Programmers and studios now have a complete solution for OTT expansion to the iPhone, iPad, and […]
Chromecast has been rebranded Google Cast to reflect its ability to work across a range of devices. Google says the updated app, which will enable casting of content from multiple devices to TVs, displays and wireless speakers as well as Chromecast dongles, will be rolled out for iOS and Android versions. Google also announced that […]