US professional football league Major League Soccer and Univision Deportes, the multimedia sports division of Univision Communications Inc. (UCI), the leading media company serving Hispanic America, are collaborating with Facebook to live stream a full slate of regular season matches on the social network. As part of this, MLS will also drive further social engagement […]
Premium television streaming service Hulu is continuing to build up the roster of channels it will offer on its forthcoming live TV streaming service by securing an affiliate agreement with A+E Networks that will bring six original brands from the A+E Networks Family to the platform. The deal adds live and on-demand streaming access to […]
Argentina’s OTT platform Vesvi appears to have gone bust. Its service has been off air since January, and despite an on-screen message telling users that “We are working for you”, it seems that the service has closed. Local reports say that subscriptions have been cancelled. Vesvi launched in November 2011 (and followed Netflix which had […]
BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the Corporation has launched BBC Player in Malaysia, the second country to receive the service following its successful launch in Singapore in 2016. The multi-genre service is available exclusively to subscribers of Telekom Malaysia Berhad’s (TM) IPTV service, HyppTV, through an authenticated SVoD service. Hypp TV viewers will […]
Anevia, a global player in OTT and IPTV software for the delivery of live TV and VoD, has announced the success of their capital increase while maintaining the preferential subscription right launched on February 14th 2017. This operation will allow the company to meet its recapitalisation needs and to carry on with its investment plan. […]
Dubai-based pay-TV operator is adding 14 live-streaming channels to its OSN Play ‘catch-up’ system. It takes the total to 32 channels and OSN says they will be more before this year is out. The move is another key ‘added value’ service for OSN, increasingly challenged by the MENA region’s OTT players. Moreover, the channels can […]
The top 10 television service providers in the US lost 937,000 television customers between them in 2016, according to the informitv Multiscreen Index. They collectively account for 88.69 million television customers. So that represents an annual subscriber loss of 1.05 per cent. Yet the number of television subscribers to the top 10 services actually rose […]
Amazon and Netflix are not only acquiring documentaries and films, but are also heavily involved in producing their own content using UHD technologies, according to a white paper – 4K TV and UHD: the whole picture – released by critical information, analytics and solutions specialist IHS Markit ahead of Cable Congress 2017. Subscription Video on […]
A study from the User Experience Strategies (UXS) Service at Strategy Analytics has assessed Chinese mobile video consumers’ behaviours, preferences, and attitudes towards video services. Participants reported spending more time watching videos on smartphones than other connected devices including connected TVs and computers. A strong willingness to pay for video content was also exhibited due […]
OTT service provider Sling TV has widened availability of its Cloud DVR to new customers through its ‘First Look’ early-access programme. Introduced in late 2016 in beta for Roku users, Cloud DVR ‘First Look’, priced at $5 per month for 50 hours of storage, is now available for purchase exclusively to Sling TV customers using […]