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Android OTT STB dongle from Netgear

Global networking company Netgear has introduced the NeoMediacast HDMI Dongle (NTV300D), a customisable, Miracast-enabled platform that enables telecommunications service providers to use the latest Android applications to offer their subscribers a veritable ‘curated content store’ of both premium and free Over-the-Top (OTT) content. With NeoMediacast, service providers can develop and operate a complete media streaming […]

January 7, 2014

M-GO 4K streaming for Samsung TVs

M-GO, a pay-as-you-go digital movie and TV streaming service joint venture between Technicolor and DreamWorks Animation, has developed a comprehensive 4K streaming service to launch on Samsung UHD TVs in the spring of 2014. M-GO will kick off with a wide selection of full-length 4K theatrical hits and popular TV shows from Hollywood’s leading studios […]

January 7, 2014

Sky IQ predicts 2014 TV habits

Sky IQ, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BSkyB specialising in TV viewing behaviours, has published a range of predictions for 2014 from the musings of Liam Plowman Strategy & Propositions, Sky IQ Customer Intelligence Services. These predictions include TV advertising becoming as personalised as online, new ad releases being hotly anticipated throughout the year; not just […]

January 6, 2014

Consumers embracing Rabbit TV

Since its launch in February 2013, Rabbit TV has assembled what it claims is the world’s largest online library guide of freely available TV shows, movies, live events, and in doing so has amassed over 2 million paid annual subscribers in the US. The low price tag of the subscription, $10 per year, encourages more […]

January 6, 2014

Tvinci for Israel’s yes GO

Yes, Israel’s only provider of multi-channel television broadcasts via satellite, has selected Tvinci, pay OTT TV platform, to create the ultimate user experience for yes GO, Israel’s first personal and social multi-screen TV service. Building on the penetration of connected devices into Israeli households, yes has chosen Tvinci’s MediaStore to create an immersive personal and […]

January 6, 2014

German, French YouTube beating UK

YouTube’s 46 generic channels are doing better in Germany and France than those being viewed in the UK. A study by IHS Electronics & Media over the past year states that the German and French offering gathered an average of 14 million views, while the UK offering tempted just 11 million views. However, IHS suggests […]

January 2, 2014By Chris Forrester

TVPlayer app set for launch

Live streaming, catch-up TV and media management solutions provider Simplestream has confirmed the availability of its free live TV streaming app – TVPlayer – prior to a full service launch later in January. TVPlayer has been selected by Apple as one of its best new apps, with Simplestream already seeing huge traffic. It is also […]

January 2, 2014By Colin Mann

YouView shareholder funding up 30%

YouView gathered more than £40 million (€47m) in funds from its shareholders in the last financial year, with staff costs increasing by almost 50 per cent as the Internet-based TV service finally launched. YouView called on £42.1 million on funds from its backers – the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, BT, Arqiva and TalkTalk […]

January 2, 2014

Netflix testing user-based pricing

Netflix is testing new prices based on the number of people who can use an account, a move that could force customers to pay more for additional family members. Netflix is offering some new customers plans that provide access on as many as four screens, letting household members watch different shows at the same time. […]

January 2, 2014

Brightcove: Live video skyrockets in 2013

Recognising that anecdotally, live streaming has surged in popularity, global provider of cloud content services Brightcove wanted to check its own customer data sets to understand just how much more prominent live streaming has become in recent years. Writing in the company blog, Brenna Fitzgerald, PR and Marketing Manager, reports that Brightcove recruited its analytics […]

December 31, 2013By Colin Mann