Sling TV has launched its live and on-demand Internet TV service on Apple TV. The OTT provider’s suite of services, including its single-stream, beta multi-stream, Sling Latino and Sling International offerings, are available to Sling TV customers once they download the app from the App Store on fourth-generation Apple TV. “Delivering the best TV experience […]
Streambox, a live streaming pioneer, has announced live 360 video streaming to YouTube. Combining Streambox Cloud Services with the beta release of the Cloud Encoder – 360 gives users a simple solution to the complex problems involved with live 360 streaming. Streambox invites content producers to become beta testers and start streaming live 360 video […]
MPP Global has added further enhancements to its eSuite with the introduction of predictive subscription churn functionality. The technology helps organisations identify high risk subscribers who are likely to churn enabling them to proactively target and re-engage with these customers in order to minimise churn and maximise revenues. In live environments where predicted churn was […]
Football fans in Spain and Venezuela can stream all non-televised Euro 2016 games live via EURO2016.com, if they register on UEFA.com. As reported by Advanced-Television last week, Mediaset Spain and Meridiano TV in Venezuela are only broadcasting 23 matches from the tournament on their television channels after failing to agree a deal with UEFA for […]
This July will see a rearrangement of M-Net movie channels over South Africa. Described locally as a “pruning” of the wide number of channels available, and a re-ordering of the EPG. The rationale is that over the years as new channels have come along their numbering has not always followed a logical pattern. This will […]
Millicom, the telecommunications and media company dedicated to emerging markets in Latin America and Africa, has announced a strategic partnership with Netfli that will bring Netflix app preloads to Android smartphones from TigoSmart and provide promotions to TigoStar and TigoSmart customers in Latin America. “Customers are choosing Tigo for seamless on-demand services anywhere. This unique […]
IHS has released key findings from its Connected Device Market Monitor. As of year-end 2015, the world now contains 8.1 billion connected smartphones, tablets, personal computers, TVs, TV-attached devices and audio devices. On average, across the globe, this device base equates to four devices per household. “The proliferation of media-enabled
Italy has adopted the HbbTV version 2.0.1 technology, based on HTML5, as a single standard for interactive TV services provided by broadcasters on Smart TVs and set-top-boxes. The confirmation comes from the publication of the HD Book 4.0, a series of documents compiled by HD Forum Italia (HDFI) that contain the technical specifications aimed at […]
Piksel, a global player in building online video businesses, together with JungoTV, have announced the launch of a new international content OTT service, powered by Piksel Digital Showcase. The multi-language entertainment destination will deliver language-specific video content to expatriate and diaspora communities around the globe. Dr. Mehmet Oz, television personality, surgeon, media entrepreneur, and co-founder […]
Technology and data company Engagement Labs, creator of the eValue score, has released rankings of the top performing US TV broadcast networks and OTT content providers on social media. “The TV landscape has drastically changed due to the rise in popularity of TV streaming services,” stated Bryan Segal, CEO at Engagement Labs. “Otherwise known as […]