The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of broadcast and broadband services through connected TVs and set-top boxes, has announced that it will create a specification for operator applications. This specification will be based on the existing HbbTV 2.0 specification. An ‘operator application’ is an application offered […]
Virgin Media has teamed up with NBCUniversal International to bring its customers reality TV favourites through hayu, the new on-demand app, available immediately. The first of its kind, hayu – an all-reality service fully integrated with social media – launched as an online app in the UK in March, allowing reality TV fans to keep […]
Net Insight, aprovider of live, interactive and on-demand media transport, has officially launch of Sye, what it claims is the world’s only true live OTT streaming solution. Sye allows live content to be streamed with frame-accurate synchronisation across any type of screen, including linear broadcast TV, with no delay. “Sye completely revolutionises the way live […]
Ooyala, a Telstra subsidiary and specialist in premium video publishing, analytics and monetisation, has released an all-new HTML5 video player built for fast, consistent performance across desktop and mobile devices. The new Ooyala Player enables a high level of customisation for delivering tailored viewing experiences and integrates with all major video advertising and analytics services. […]
Findings from The Diffusion Group (TDG) suggest the coming shift from Legacy TV to Broadband Video sources over the next decade will see Broadband Video grow from 17 per cent of total viewing minutes in 2015 to 38 per cent by 2025, up 81 per cent, while Legacy TV will decline from 80 per cent […]
The National Football League (NFL) has selected Twitter as its exclusive partner to deliver a live OTT digital stream of Thursday Night Football to a global audience across devices and for free during the course of the 2016 NFL Regular Season. Twitter will stream the 10 Thursday Night Football games broadcast by NBC and CBS, […]
Global youth media company Vice Media and Group Canal+ have formed a partnership that will offer Viceland, the brand new TV channel from Vice, exclusively to CanalSat customers across all platforms when the network launches in France in the Autumn of 2016. Oscar-winning film director, Spike Jonze, serves as Co-President of Viceland and is overseeing […]
Comcast has entered into a content licensing agreement with The Walt Disney Studios to start offering a selection of digital library titles and new releases as they become available from Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney•Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Disneynature and Touchstone Pictures via the Xfinity On Demand digital store. Effective immediately, customers can buy […]
US public interest bodies Public Knowledge, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, with the help of the Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic at Stanford Law School, have filed an amicus [friend of court] brief in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that OTT platform FilmOn qualifies for the cable statutory licence. This allows […]
Kaltura, the video technology company, is powering Viacom18’s newly launched digital VoD service VOOT. The ad-supported video streaming service launched last week, with close to 17,000 hours of domestic and international content, from a multitude of popular channels associated with Viacom18, including the flagship Hindi GEC- Colors, Nick, MTV India among others. Viacom18 is a […]