Western Europe will avoid the curse of cord-cutting – at least for the next five years, according to the Western Europe Pay TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. The Western European pay TV market is mature, but, unlike North America, it will still gain subscribers between 2016 and 2022. Although this only represents a […]
Premium entertainment streaming platform Hulu and NBCUniversal have reached a comprehensive, new distribution agreement that will bring NBC and Telemundo Owned Television Stations and portfolio of leading cable networks to Hulu’s upcoming new live TV streaming service when it launches in the Spring of 2017. The deal will provide live and on-demand streaming access to […]
Bloomberg Media and Twitter are partnering to create the first-ever 24/7 breaking news network that will be global, live, social and streaming. The new live streaming news network will combine the vast global editorial and newsgathering capabilities of Bloomberg with the digital power of Twitter, which has become one of the world’s fastest and primary […]
JW Player, a leading digital and mobile video platform and player company with customers ranging from individual bloggers to Fortune 500 companies, is the newest Opera TV Snap partner. Together, Opera TV Snap and JW Player will enable JW Players’ over two million supported websites to package online video channels into ready-to-run TV apps. “Opera TV […]
Vimeo has announced that FitFusion, the streaming workout platform created by America’s health and wellness expert Jillian Michaels, has selected Vimeo’s OTT services to power its streaming video platform. As part of its multi-year deal, FitFusion has been re-launched, via Vimeo’s VHX product, and now available on iOS and Android devices, as well as AppleTV, […]
Having revealed earlier in the week that it had signed a content licensing deal with iQiyi, the leading online video platform in China, Netflix has disclosed further details of the arrangement. The agreement covers a subset of Netflix original series such as Stranger Things and Black Mirror. “Though expectations of our deal are modest in […]
Findings from analysis firm Leichtman Research Group (LRG) indicate that 69 per cent of US TV households have at least one television set connected to the Internet via a smart TV set, a stand-alone device (such as Roku, Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV stick or set-top box, or Apple TV), a video game system, and/or a […]
The rise of streaming is being driven largely by the increase of streaming to the TV set, according to the findings from Horowitz Research’s State of Pay TV, OTT and SVOD study. According to the study, in 2013 TV viewers reported streaming just
Technology firm Triple-C is launching SMART in partnership with Vonetize, the new IPTV service for the Israeli market, with STB solutions spcialist WeTek (www.wetek.com) providing customised Set-top boxes fully adapted to both Triple C’s network and Vonetize’s content distribution service. “This collaboration with Triple-C and Vonetize clearly conveys our vision and translates how bound and […]
YuMe, a provider of digital video brand advertising., has released a report measuring ad attention by comparing the actual time a viewer’s eyes were tracked watching an ad against the total time the ad was viewable for connected TV, desktop and mobile campaigns. The study concludes that viewers pay attention to a higher proportion of ads […]