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33% UK broadband homes have OTT sub

According to research from Parks Associates, 33 per cent of UK broadband households subscribed to an OTT video service as of Q3 2015. The study – Connected Consumer in Europe – also shows that only 15 per cent of UK households with pay-TV subscribe to premium movie channels. “Overall OTT video usage

January 12, 2016

Conviva: Connected TVs rule OTT

Conviva, a specialist in OTT video experience optimisation, has released its final Viewer Experience Report Update for 2015. The report reviews a year in which OTT services became core lines of business for leading media publishers and service providers, and new

January 12, 2016

ABOX42 partnership with PerceptionTV

ABOX42, a supplier of IPTV, OTT and Hybrid SmartSTB platforms and IPTV, multiscreen technology specialist, PerceptionTV have joined forces to provide customers with a complete IPTV/OTT hardware and software solution for international markets. The Perception platform will be integrated into ABOX42’s M series smart set-top-box platform and showcased at a number of industry events in […]

January 12, 2016

m:tel selects Keepixo OTT encoders

Keepixo, a provider of software-based head-end solutions for IPTV and OTT, announces that m:tel has selected its high density transcoders and mosaic generators for its new OTT multiscreen service. Keepixo OTT transcoders are used to deliver more than 60 channels using Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol to a variety of devices with different screen […]

January 12, 2016

Analyst: 20m Netflix subs adds in 2016

Tony Gunnarsson, Senior Analyst, TV and OTT Video at technology research and advisory firm Ovum, has suggested that Netflix’s recently-announced 130 nation expansion will see the addition of some 10 million subscribers in those markets in 2016, with a similar amount in existing territories. The firm also predicts

January 11, 2016By Colin Mann

Paywizard: ‘CES launches reflect OTT TV boom on mobile’

The standout CES 2016 trend towards multiscreen TV experiences is supported by new research commissioned by pay-TV subscriber management specialist Paywizard, which finds that mobile devices are the most popular choices for watching paid OTT TV content, with 66 per cent of consumers globally preferring to access Internet TV via a mobile, tablet or laptop. […]

January 11, 2016

Sony content for Hulu

US streaming service Hulu has signed a multi-year agreement content with Sony. The deal gives Hulu streaming rights to series including The Shield, Party of Five, Dawson’s Creek and Damages as well Sony’s movie archives. The agreement also includes series Happy Endings, all episodes of which were recently made available on the service. All Sony […]

January 11, 2016

IoT worth $287bn this year

This past week at the giant CES show in Las Vegas some of the world’s leading TV manufacturers announced that their TV sets would also handle ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) connectivity. At CES the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) issued its own forecasts stating

January 8, 2016By Chris Forrester

Live streaming app usage to rise in 2016

GWI’s Trends for 2016 predicts that live streaming will become more popular in the year ahead. Currently, it’s only tiny minorities of consumers who are using live-streaming apps; according to GWI’s data, about 1.5 per cent globally are engaging with Meerkat and just under 2 per cent are using Periscope. Numbers remain low in all […]

January 8, 2016

iPlayer requests on Connected TVs up 32%

Connected TVs were the most popular devices to watch BBC iPlayer on over the festive period – with unique browsers on connected TVs up 32 per cent on the same period in 2014. Connected TVs accounted for 38 per cent of unique browsers, followed by 24 per cent on tablets, 22 per cent on computers […]

January 8, 2016