Amazon has confirmed will launch its Prime Instant Video service in Japan in September. Consumers will have to be subscribed to Amazon Prime in order to access the content. Prime currently costs 3,900 yen a year in Japan (about €30). Japan will be the fifth country in which the service is available. Amazon Japan president Jasper […]
One year after its launch, Netflix is gaining strength in France, both in terms of content and subscribers, while its main rival Canalplay in the SVoD market is stagnating, reveals French research company NPA. NPA forecasts Netflix will end 2015 with 900,000 French subscribers, before jumping to 1.8 million in 2016 and 2.7 million in […]
Arqiva has announced the launch of a new hybrid IPTV channel on the Freeview platform. ABN TV, the African-Caribbean family entertainment channel, will provide content 24 hours a day to audiences with internet-enabled Freeview devices. Tom Cape, Director of Connected Solutions at Arqiva said, “Audiences have for some time now embraced the seamless cross-over of […]
Elemental Technologies, a supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has announced that Com Hem, a Swedish supplier of broadband and TV services, has chosen Elemental software-defined video processing systems to support a flexible and scalable unified headend for delivering linear video across cable, IPTV and over-the-top TV networks. Com Hem broadband, television, […]
Piksel, a global player in building successful online video businesses, has formed an exclusive partnership with real-time TV metadata provider Lingospot to drive hyper-personalised curation, intuitive search, intelligently matched advertising, and genuinely novel content discovery experiences. Bringing together Piksel’s heritage in the online video business and Lingospot’s unique ability to analyse video content creates an […]
Opera TV will soon start shipping its Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) 2.0 software development kit (SDK) to TV manufacturers and set-top-box OEMs, enabling them to be the first in the market with HbbTV-2.0-compliant devices. HbbTV 2.0 is the newest standard for interactive broadcaster content. Aligned with other web standards, HbbTV 2.0 simplifies the task […]
YouTube has launched its spin-off gaming platform in the UK and the US. Branded “YouTube Gaming”, the dedicated app and website focuses exclusively on gaming content, with a greater emphasis on live steams. Gaming videos are already a major draw for YouTube, wiith site visitors spending billions of hours watching them every month. YouTube’s most-followed […]
FreeWheel – a provider of video ad management solutions for media companies – has released the findings from its Q2 Video Monetization Report, an analysis piece that examines the state of the video market. The research highlights the fact that, despite ready access to content all the time, traditional primetime periods of 7pm to 1am […]
FreeWheel’s Q2 Video Monetization Report has revealed that 38 per cent of monetisation this quarter came from outside desktop and laptop environments. This growing share is driven by smartphones and OTT devices (Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, gaming consoles, and Smart TVs) having yet another quarter of phenomenal growth at 107 per cent and 194 per […]
The CE industry reached a milestone in the second quarter with half of US Internet homes now owning a Connected TV device. This includes connected TVs, video game consoles, streaming media players, and Blu-ray Disc players that consumers connected to the Internet allowing them access to apps such as Netflix and Hulu. The total number […]