Cellfish, the French digital media company, has bought bankrupt OTT TV service TeVolution to accelerate its multi-screen proposition. Cellfish operates into 10 countries (including Germany, Meicon, France and Australia) in several sectors: music (with Hitster), video (with Tiny Kids), and games and personalised mobile services. Launched in 2012, TeVolution, which offers access to DTT channels […]
Enhanced media and productivity drive phablet owners to buy devices with larger screens. Findings in a report from the Mobile Device UX (MDX) group at Strategy Analytics showed that the main drivers of purchasing phablet sized devices (5.5”+) are text visibility, viewing media (especially video), web browsing and productivity. However, consumers find that there are […]
Irdeto been selected by GoMedia, Europe’s leading on-board infotainment provider, to design a content protection solution which supports OTT video delivery for travellers on Eurostar trains. GoMedia will use Irdeto Rights to secure access over PCs and Macs and leverage Irdeto ActiveCloak technology and Irdeto Secure Key Exchange (SKE) for the Eurostar mobile app. This […]
Ooyala has released its Q4 2015 Global Video Index, showing the total number of programmatic transactions increased 160 per cent since Q3 2015. Further, the report highlights video consumption trends throughout Asia-Pacific (APAC), as five of the 15 APAC countries analysed in the report usurp the global average of mobile video viewing, specifically on tablets. […]
The TV and video viewing landscape in the UK has changed dramatically in the past 10 years. But even as digital video consumption comes to the fore, certain ingrained habits continue to influence the shape of the market, with traditional TV playing a central role in ushering in digital video services, according to an eMarketer […]
Mexican TV group Televisa has confirmed it is removing all it content from Netflix in order to keep the content exclusively for its own VoD platform, Blim, that will launch later this year. “Televisa content will be exclusively for Blim; that’s our strategy,” said Blim’s director general, Carlos Sandoval in an interview with Forbes. There […]
Yahoo and the National Hockey League (NHL) have announced a strategic alliance to deliver premium sports content to Yahoo Sports users in the US. Now fans can access live, out-of-market NHL games for free on Yahoo, throughout the week, no cable subscription or authentication required. Yahoo will offer unique advertising opportunities for brands to connect […]
The latest figures released by Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – show that the average TV viewer in the UK watched a total of 3 hours, 51 minutes of TV a day in 2015, 1 per cent less than in 2014 but 5 per cent more than in 2005. […]
FreeWheel has released its Q4 2015 Video Monetization Report that examines the state of the video market. The research highlighted some key findings from the quarter – and 2015 as a whole. For example, European broadcasters monetised the majority of their dynamically served content across long-form on-demand, now accounting for 88 per cent of total […]
Pan-European broadcaster Sky is continuing its strategy of backing US technology and OTT players with a $6 million (€5.47m) investment in fuboTV, a US-based video streaming service that provides subscribers with a premium, over-the-top bundle of sports TV channels. This is part of fuboTV’s Series B round of funding, which has also seen Sky’s main […]