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. […]
Netflix has released its latest subscriber numbers for Q1 2017, which showed growth of 1.42 million US subs and 3.53 million international. This 4.95 million total is good, but it falls short of Netflix’s own projections for the first quarter of 5.2 million. The failure to deliver hit Netflix’s share price which initially fell 3 […]
With Netflix CEO Reed Hastings advising shareholders that the streaming service expects to cross the 100 million-member mark this weekend, Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer, has suggested that the next 100 million subscribers are going to be far more likely to be watching content on mobile than the first 100 million. Speaking during Netflix’s Q1 […]
ATP Media, the broadcast arm of the ATP World Tour, has announced the launch of the pioneering ATP World Tour Archive. Now available to further enhance and promote the live programme offering of ATP Media’s broadcast partners, the comprehensive and unique portfolio of tennis archive footage is also accessible on a use-by-use basis to independent […]
Security solutions specialist Inside Secure is working with forensic watermarking solutions provider ContentArmor to offer customers a pre-integrated software development kit (SDK) for secure player, meeting the stringent security requirements for early-window and UHD movies. Inside Secure’s SAFEplayer Ultra supports the widest range of devices, including Android 2.3+, Android STB, Android TV, iOS 6.0+, tvOS, […]
Elemental Technologies, an Amazon Web Services company, has announced that SKY Mexico has deployed Elemental’s software-based video solutions as the processing engine for Blue To Go Video Everywhere, its premium OTT video service. SKY Mexico launched Blue To Go in 2014 with Elemental at the core of its live streaming workflow and has scaled up […]
Jonathan Thompson, Chief Executive of Digital UK, the body which supports digital terrestrial TV in the UK and provides operational support for the Freeview DTT platform, has suggested that Silicon Valley’s view of the broadcasting sector is based on “flimsy evidence and half-truths”, warning of the risk of wrong public policy decisions being made as […]
Airtel Digital TV, the DTH arm of Indian multiplay operator Bharti Airtel, has launched ‘Internet TV’ – India’s first hybrid STB, powered by Android TV, which brings the best of online content to the TV screen along with a bouquet of over 500 plus satellite TV channels. Airtel ‘Internet TV’ transforms any TV into a […]
Entertainment technology and audience insights specialist TiVo Corporation and TV streaming platform Roku have signed a multi-year intellectual property (IP) licence agreement. The IP licence covers the TiVo and Rovi Corporation patent portfolios as well as the over-the-top (OTT) assets of the Intellectual Ventures patent portfolio under the TiVo/IV licensing partnership. Additionally, the agreement includes […]
French financial newspaper Les Echos is reporting that Vivendi-backed Canal Plus and telco Orange are in “active talks” regarding a deepening of their distribution agreement. The article reports Orange would get more control over the distribution of Canal Plus to its subscribers (the ability to create its own channel packages and directly collect subscription fees…) […]