BitTorrent Live, the multichannel OTT app, is now available for OS X (Apple laptops and desktops). BitTorrent Live features the recently launched BitTorrent News channel – a so called ‘independent voice’ on the news in real-time as it breaks. Recent popular stories include comedian Justin R Young dressed as Pokémon character Charmander and responding to Senator […]
Al-Jazeera is preparing to launch its English language international news channel as an online streaming service in the US, according to a leaked internal email. The move comes almost three months after it shut down its US cable television network, al-Jazeera America, blaming economic challenges in the US media market. Al-Jazeera English is in talks […]
Artem Vaulin, alleged to be the owner of popular torrenting website KickassTorrents, has been arrested in Poland, with the US seeking his extradition and closure of the site. He is facing four charges: two counts of criminal copyright infringement, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, and one count of conspiracy to commit copyright […]
SVoD has become a core viewing component for many pay-TV non-subscribers, according to consumer research from Leichtman Research Group, which finds that 59 per cent of all US households have a SVoD service from Netflix, Amazon Prime, and/or Hulu – up from 47 per cent in 2014. SVoD services are particularly popular among non-subscribers to […]
Sky Q, Sky’s next generation home entertainment system, is introducing more new features designed to make it even easier for customers to find and watch their favourite TV shows. After the successful launch of Sky Q in February, Auto Play, an improved Top Picks and a range of other features are set to make Sky […]
The Chinese online video market, including revenue from advertising and content purchases, is forecast to more than quadruple from 22 billion Chinese yuan (€3.1bn) in 2015 to 96.2 billion yuan in 2020. With the rapid adoption of smartphones and growing penetration of broadband, Chinese consumers are gradually switching from TV to online for video content. […]
Content delivery specialist Limelight Networks has confirmed that UK public service broadcaster Channel 4 has chosen the Limelight Orchestrate Content Delivery platform to deliver its programming to viewers on demand. “Channel 4 is known as an innovative trailblazer at the forefront of delivering our programmes to our viewers across the UK who prefer to watch […]
Data from Juniper Research forecasts that revenues from SVoD services, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, are set to more than double from $14.6 billion (€13.2bn) this year, to $34.6 billion in 2021. Netflix now has US subscriber numbers that are level with the nation’s leading network providers DirecTV and Comcast (47 million and 47.7 […]
Connected service Sky+ has introduced its new homepage design introduced to help customers discover even more TV to watch. The latest update adds editorial Top Picks to the Sky+ Homepage. The new section gives customers’ recommendations on the best new TV from entertainment channels such as Sky Atlantic and Fox. Additionally, depending on customers’ subscriptions […]
Findings from the Parks Associates’ OTT Video Market Tracker indicate that 55 per cent of OTT services in the US have a subscription-only business model, such as Netflix or Hulu. In Canada, 50 per cent of OTT services offer subscription-only services. “There is an enormous amount of change going on in the OTT space right […]