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Netflix fails to make impression in Italy

Netflix has failed to make an impression in Italy, as subscriptions to the online streaming service are not growing as fast as expected, according to the director of the Media Observatory of Italy’s Institute for Competitiveness (I-Com). In an interview for daily Il Giorno, Bruno Zambrino said that Netflix has a low penetration rate in […]

August 10, 2016From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Disney takes BAMtech stake; plans ESPN OTT

The Walt Disney Company is acquiring a 33 per cent stake in BAMTech, a technology services and video streaming company previously formed by Major League Baseball (MLB).  As part of the transaction, BAMTech was separated from MLB’s broader digital business, MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM). Under the terms of the transaction, Disney will pay $1 billion […]

August 10, 2016

Akamai delivers record traffic for Rio

Akamai has already delivered more video traffic for Rio than whole London games in 2012. In a statement, the CDN specialist said: “On Monday [August 8th], during the third day of Rio, Akamai had already exceeded the total amount of video data that it delivered for all 17 days of London in 2012.” Akamai has […]

August 10, 2016

NFL Network, RedZone arrive on Sling TV

US OTT TV service Sling TV has launched NFL Network and NFL RedZone on its live and on-demand Internet TV service. All Sling Blue customers will automatically receive NFL Network, while NFL RedZone is available to Sling Blue customers as part of the ‘Sports Extra’ add-on pack for an additional $5 per month. “The addition […]

August 10, 2016

DAZN leverages Massive technology

Massive Interactive has announced that Massive AXIS, its Video App UI solution, has been selected by DAZN to deploy its new live and on-demand sports streaming service. Massive AXIS is enabling DAZN to provide sports fans with unlimited access to a wide array of live sports on one streaming service with over 8,000 live events […]

August 10, 2016

Hulu free content moving to Yahoo

Hulu, the US online streaming service co-owned by Time Warner, Disney, 21st Century Fox and NBCUniversal, is dropping all free TV content that it was initially known for as it works on an online television service to rival cable TV. Free TV episodes – typically the most recent four or five episodes from a show’s […]

August 9, 2016

Netflix ISP Speed Index: Big movers in Denmark, Chile

Netflix has published the July data from the ISP Speed Index – its monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime-time Netflix streaming experience. In Chile, Movistar rose

August 9, 2016

Hastings: ‘Netflix the natural way to watch TV’

CEO Reed Hastings has suggested that in the future, Internet TV services such as Netflix will be akin to the mobile phone, eventually becoming the natural way of viewing. Speaking to the Sunday Times in the UK, Hastings said the beauty of on-demand viewing, and what propelled Netflix, was “being able to watch when you […]

August 8, 2016By Colin Mann

BBC denies Wi-Fi detector vans

The BBC has described claims by the UK’s Daily Telegraph that the corporation will use TV detector vans capable of capturing information from private Wi-Fi networks to identify people watching iPlayer without a TV licence as being wholly “inaccurate”. The newspaper’s claims come as the BBC closes a loophole that allowed access to BBC content […]

August 8, 2016

FilmOn X sets out licensing appeal case

OTT Internet TV service FilmOn X (formerly Aereokiller LLC) has set out its case against the appeal by US broadcast networks opposing the July 2015 ruling by Judge George Wu, of the Central District of California, that FilmOn X is entitled to a compulsory license under Section 111 of the Copyright Act of 1976. Wu […]

August 8, 2016By Colin Mann