BritBox, the subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) streaming service from BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC and UK commercial broadcaster ITV, which went live in the US in March 2017, has launched on streaming service Roku. After a seven-day free trial, BritBox is $6.99 (€6.52) per month and gives subscribers access to thousands of hours […]
OTT TV platform Sling TV has become the first live and on-demand over-the-top (OTT) service available on LG Electronics’ line-up of smart TVs. Sling TV now supports most 2016 webOS 3.0 Smart TV models, and will be available on LG’s 2017 webOS 3.5 enabled-models in the coming months. LG joins more than 15 platforms currently […]
US sports-first streaming pay-TV service fuboTV will now offer Chelsea TV, the English Premier League club’s channel featuring 24-hour-a-day programming, to Fubo Premier subscribers as an add-on package for $5.99 (€5.59)/month. fuboTV will be the first third-party platform in the United States to make Chelsea TV available to its customers. Chelsea’s official channel is the […]
Contrary to the rest of Europe, Spaniards mainly watch TV via DTT. This – combined with an increasing demand for IPTV – is putting satellite and cable TV in freefall. A report from SES Astra reveals that 60 per cent of Spanish viewers watch TV via DTT versus 26 per cent on average in the […]
According to audience measurement and survey company Médiamétrie, acquiring video content online among the French is increasing. The company’s study, VOD360, notes that the viewer now has several on-demand options watch his or her favourite movies, series or documentaries, be it rental, subscription or purchase. While rental has been an important factor, the study suggests […]
The number of French homes with a connected TV rose to 56.8 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2016, up from 54.8 per cent a year earlier, according to a survey from French broadcast authority CSA. The most popular connection method for French onine viewers is via a set-top box provided by their ISP […]
A US federal court has ruled that the owners of the Lool IPTV service unlawfully streamed international television channels to users in the United States in violation of rights held by pay-TV operator DISH. As part of the ruling, the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas ordered a $1,050,000 (€980,000) judgement in […]
Google has announced that YouTube Transactional reports have been improved to include the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) ID when that number is provided in an Avail. This marks the completion of the EIDR “round trip,” where the EIDR ID is used in the initial publishing of the Avail for a piece of Film/TV content all […]
Paywizard, the subscription, billing and customer relationship management (CRM) specialist, will debut a number of new, data-driven enhancements to Paywizard Agile, its subscriber management solution, at NAB. The new features provide pay-TV operators with a true 360-degree, data-driven view of their customers – along with powerful predictive analytics tools that identify individual subscribers’ propensity to […]
TV advertising still generates $175bn worldwide and fuels many FTA networks. Now the oldest form of TV revenue is needed to monetize the OTT services of broadcasters and pay-TV operators. The audience is, by its very nature, fragmented but the data generated by OTT should provide the information to target ads right down to individuals. […]