A Horowitz Research study reveals 88 per cent of urban TV content viewers in the US have the ability to stream video content to a computer, mobile device, or directly to a TV. The study also reveals that multicultural viewers – traditionally pay-TV’s most valuable consumers—are more likely to have made OTT an integral part […]
Subscribers of Internet entertainment service Hulu will soon have the ability to add the Showtime service to their Hulu subscription and stream on a wide range of the most popular Internet-connected streaming devices. Starting in early July, Showtime will become the first premium service to be offered to Hulu’s nearly nine million subscribers nationwide. Hulu […]
As the trend towards connected living and the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to permeate home, work and city solutions, the need to keep tabs on a myriad of connected devices will thrust the global IoT testing and monitoring equipment market into the spotlight. The incorporation of machine-to-machine (M2M) communication – central to IoT deployment […]
MoMedia, the digital distributor and VoD content management company, has secured a deal to distribute titles from DreamWorks Classics TV catalogue. The agreement will see MoMedia repackage and distribute over 20 series and 800 episodes of DreamWorks Classics TV content to VoD platforms worldwide, excluding North America. The distribution campaign will also see MoMedia reinvigorate […]
Quantel and Snell have released the results of a global survey into the industry’s views on IP and 4K adoption. More than 1,000 people responded to the survey from small, medium and large-scale public and private broadcast and post production organisations across more than 80 countries. The headline findings on IP are
Within two months of its local launch, over a million Australians across 400,000 households had signed up to Netflix, the latest Streaming Video On Demand (SVoD) data from Roy Morgan Research shows. But will the numbers flatten or decline as the introductory free trials end—or really rocket up now the latest season of Game of […]
Following a trial period, the Orange TV sticks has officially launched in Romania. The stick brings films, TV shows and TV programmes from Orange TV Go to users’ TVs and turns portable devices such as smartphones or tablets into remote controls. Customers can access 75 TV channels – 20 in HD – as well as […]
iflix, the Southeast Asian online streaming service, has entered into another landmark content distribution agreement with The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia. The deal covers The Walt Disney Company’s raft of content across the Marvel Studios, ABC Studios, Buena Vista International and Touchstone Pictures brands, including blockbuster hits Thor, Iron Man, Real Steel and The […]
Box has announced that Endemol Shine Netherlands and FremantleMedia North America, two of the world’s largest creators of television programmes, are deploying Box’s cloud sharing and collaboration platform. The companies have chosen Box to provide centralised and secure content management, both internally and externally. “The media and entertainment industry is responding to huge technology shifts […]
Investment boutique Oppenheimer has suggested that Netflix’s “aggressive” expansion plans will see 32 per cent of the world’s broadband population using the service by 2020. Jason Helfstein, Oppenheimer’s analyst in charge of Netflix, raised his