Toon Goggles, a provider of 4K on-demand video content for kids, is now available on all connected devices running the Foxxum Smart TV solution. The application offers a wide range of animated series for children of all ages, covering educational, adventure, fantasy, action and comedy cartoons like Badanamu, Bernard, Super Geek Heroes, Boing, Om Nom, […]
Dozens of Spanish and Latin American Facebook pages are illegally streaming top-flight football matches free of charge using the social network’s video-sharing facility Facebook Live, according to a report in Spanish newspaper El Pais. Through a combination of links and profiles that disappear as soon as the match is finished, these pirate broadcasts are seen […]
Amazon Channels head Michael Paull is to be CEO of BAMTech – the video streaming tech firm with $1 billion backing from Disney. Paull has worked at Amazon since 2012, most recently with Amazon Channels worldwide,where he was responsible for its global content, product, technology, operations and marketing. Before that he oversaw Prime. BAMTech started […]
Before the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2017, Huawei X Labs and China Mobile Research Institute have jointly released the Mobile Video Report: China Trailblazing Mobile Live Video Market. The Report reveals that the burgeoning social networking combined with the unique monetisation mechanism presented in China helps stimulate the advancement of China’s
IP-based video delivery solutions specialist MobiTV has closed $21 million (€19.91m) in funding from Oak Investment Partners and Ally Corporate Finance. The funding will accelerate the expansion of the MobiTV Connect Platform to enable IP delivery for pay-TV providers. “We’re able to future-proof the service providers’ pay-TV offerings through state-of-the-art features and rich user experiences […]
In its latest IPTV Market Leader Report, Kagan Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, has named Edgeware as the VoD server software market leader in three out of its six tracked regions. TheTV CDN technology specialist is one of 32 technology vendors that were tracked by Kagan in four categories – VoD server software, […]
Amazon has revealed that its all-new Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote will launch in the UK on April 6th. Amazon says the device is 30 per cent faster than the previous version, and is the first UK version to ship with an Alexa Voice Remote included. “Fire TV Stick is our fastest-selling UK […]
French commercial media group TF1 has threatened to withdraw from the platforms of some French IPTV operators. Régis Ravanas, head of advertising and diversification at TF1, said the group is looking to raise its revenues by making IPTV operators like Free, Orange and SFR pay to carry its DTT channels (TF1, TMC and NT1). If […]
Harmonic, a specialist in video delivery infrastructure, has announced that SuperSoccer, an Indonesian sports aggregator, has chosen Harmonic’s VOS 360 professional cloud media processing service to stream live football matches, including Serie A Italian league games, over the web to subscribers in Indonesia. “Being a relatively new OTT operator, we were looking for a video […]
YouTube is to set scrap “unskippable” 30-second advertisements on its video service. The Google-owned site has confirmed plans to instead focus on “formats that work well for both users and advertisers”, from 2018 onwards. According to YouTube, more than half of its video views come from mobile users, where a 30-second ad can negatively affect […]