YouTube will spend approximately $300 million on bandwidth in 2009 — meaning it won’t be profitable, according to an analysis by Credit Suisse. According to the report' authors that means YouTube still would not be profitable at the gross level this year, given their original 2009 revenue estimate of $240 million (a top-line increase of […]
A recent study revealed that media buyers will be increasing their budgets for online video advertising. According to a biannual report from the video advertising network Web TV Enterprise, which surveyed 101 UK media buyers booking pre-roll advertising campaigns, 97 percent were planning on maintaining or increasing video advertising spend. According to the survey, 25 […]
AT&T has publicly launched the beta version of a video portal — which serves up free TV shows and movies to any Internet user, and promises even more to U-verse TV customers — with content from more than a dozen programming partners. The site, http://entertainment.att.net/tv, promises U-verse TV customers “bonus content” if they log in […]
YouTube is reportedly in negotiations with major Hollywood studios for a deal that would see full-length movies on the service. It would put YouTube, owned by Google, in direct competition with services from Netflix, Amazon and Apple, which allow users to buy or rent movies online. YouTube, which already offers some older movies on its […]
Cisco Systems from the USA, SmartLabs from Russia and Bouygues Telecom from France are the latest organisations to join the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) in its development of open, end-to-end specifications for IPTV, based on existing technologies and open standards.
Aksh Optifibre plans to raise up to $20 million through a private placement to grow its IPTV and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) business in India. The amount will be used to part finance Aksh's capex requirement as it plans to ramp up its subscriber base from 35,000 to 650,000 by March 2013. The company, […]
Ten Sports, the most watched sports channel in Indian and NBC Universal Digital Solutions (NBCUDS), have an agreed to develop and launch a free, cricket-focused multiplatform sports portal targeting the region's fast growing digital audience. The site will debut with live Webcast coverage of the much anticipated Compaq Cup, the tri-angular cricket series between India, […]
The US IPTV market will grow from over 5 million subscribers in 2009 to 15.5 million by 2013, according to a report by analyst firm Strategy Analytics. While IPTV holds less than a 5% share of total television households in 2009, the percentage will approach 13% in 2013. Strategy Analytics believes that, despite recently announced […]
The global IPTV market has withstood the worst of the worldwide economic storm during the last six months, putting it on track to achieve more than 50 per cent subscriber growth in 2009, according to iSuppli. In the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009, IPTV added 2.5 million and 2.3 million […]
The TV industry has as little as two years to create viable digital businesses or face a version of the “iTunes moment” that saw the music business cede the online future to Apple, according to Ashley Highfield. Highfield, the former BBC future technology chief who is now managing director of consumer and online at Microsoft […]