On April 3rd 107,000 fans gathered at Texas Stadium in Dallas to watch WrestleMania 32. According to Rolling Stone magazine, there were 413 minutes of total air time covering all the activities in the ring, in the stadium and backstage. In another metric, AT&T reported Wrestlemania 32 set new records of data use at the […]
Cablevision Systems has announced the integration of Hulu into the Optimum TV experience, enabling customers to access the online streaming TV service directly from the Optimum TV interactive programme guide on all current-generation set top boxes. With this launch, Optimum is the first cable provider in the US to activate a channel dedicated to Hulu’s […]
Netflix gained 1.8 million accounts in the course of 2015 (+37 per cent) to 5.2 million, surpassing the 1.3 million VoD-enabled homes added by fixed-line telcos Sky (including Now TV), Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk according to Enders’ analysis of the home entertainment market in the UK. The majority of SVoD homes overlap with pay-TV […]
Sky will stream a range of news and sport content directly through social media giant Facebook in the coming months, according to the company’s digital director Lucien Bowater. In a company blog post, Bowater said that Sky will give a “unique behind the scenes look” at a number of major sporting events and breaking news […]
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, […]