Pan-European pay-TV operator Sky has formed a strategic partnership with iflix, a leading Southeast Asia streaming TV service. As part of the partnership, Sky is investing $45 million (€41m) in iflix and the parties will work together to identify areas of future collaboration across the high-growth emerging markets in which iflix operates. Currently available to […]
The advent of On Demand, IPTV and OTT viewing trends has spurred the global TV industry into a new ‘golden age’, according to Eric Ellenbogen, the Co-Head of International TV & DreamWorks Classics, DreamWorks Animation. “Today’s TV programming features the biggest stars in the entertainment industry,” said Ellenbogen during a keynote speech at the CABSAT […]
The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report – from Regional TAM, OzTAM and Nielsen, covering the fourth quarter of 2015 – shows that, despite the proliferation of connected devices, the vast majority of all video viewing in Australia takes place on in-home TV sets. Across all screens and all types of video content – broadcast and non-broadcast […]
Amazon has launched its first daily, live show, Style Code Live. The show is dedicated to fashion and beauty, featuring tips from style experts and viewers. The 30-minute show is free to all viewers and streams weeknights through the Amazon website. Viewers can also follow Style Code Live for show updates on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, […]
ITV Hub and All 4, the free on-demand digital catch-up services from ITV and Channel 4, are now available for all versions of Amazon’s Fire TV. The availability of ITV Hub and All 4 means the complete Fire TV range now offers catch-up services from every one of the UK’s major broadcasters—with apps from the […]
Charlotte Moore, Controller, BBC TV Channels and iPlayer, has delivered a strong defence of the Corporation’s programme making and dismissed a suggestion by Culture, Media and Sport Secretary John Whittingdale that it had become less distinctive. Speaking at an event hosted by BBC Director-General Tony Hall and Charlotte Moore for writers, actors, industry and media, […]
Vubiquity, the global provider of premium entertainment and technology services, has announced a five-year agreement with emerging OTT streaming service FlixFling. Vubiquity will provide FlixFling with access to its AnyVU Content Cloud, the most expansive commercial platform of movies and television shows to facilitate the management, automation and delivery of premium content for any screen. […]
Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE), operator of the largest bouquet of pan-Asian channels dedicated to Asian entertainment, and LeEco (formerly Letv), one of China’s leading vertically-integrated Internet companies, announced the launch of Thrill 360, the OTT linear feed for Thrill, Asia’s only regional horror and suspense movie channel. The new channel is available to all LeEco […]
PCCW Media has launched Viu over-the-top OTT mobile video entertainment service in India and Malaysia. Offered as a freemium service, Viu provides viewers in both markets with free access to thousands of hours of premium content for local users. For Viu India, consumers get free access to a vast archive of content from Bollywood and […]
HBO plans to expand its online streaming service, HBO Now, to Argentina and Brazil this year, extending a global push to reach new viewers who pay for broadband but not TV. Brazil is already HBO’s biggest Latin American market, HBO CEO Richard Plepler said. “You’re just adding to the opportunity for the consumer to have […]