Apple has added Amazon Fire to the platforms on which its TV service is available for launch. The App is added the Fire TV Stick 4k, the 2nd generation Fire TV Stick and the Fire TV Basic Edition. The announcement follows similar launches on Roku dongles and Samsung smart TVs – with support for LG, […]
US digital advertising revenues reached $57.9 billion (€51.9bn) during the first six months of 2019 – the highest spend in history for the first half of the year – according to the latest IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report released by IAB and prepared by PwC US. The record-breaking total marks a 17 per cent year-over-year […]
Movie exhibition company AMC Theatres is extending its business into the home. Members of the company’s AMC Stubs loyalty plan in the United States can rent or buy approximately 2,000 of the most popular digital movies from the top Hollywood studios at AMCTheatres.com as well as on the AMC Theatres mobile, connected devices and Smart […]
OTT service Planet Horror has been launched exclusively on Samsung’s Smart TVs in Spain, offering a selection of horror movie titles in time for Halloween. Viewers can subscribe to the service for €19.99 a year. It is also available to watch online, and on Android and iOS mobile phones. The service is operated by AMC […]
The Apple TV+ app will initially address only about half of the total US market, so the service is likely to encounter limited subscriber growth compared to competitors that have a wider reach, according to IHS Markit. For Apple, this could
Tru Optik, an audience intelligence and data-management platform (DMP) across Connected TV (CTV), has announced plans to power a free privacy compliance solution for CTV and Advanced Media called Privacy.TV. The solution will roll out in Q4 2019 in beta and become commercially available in 2020, offering OTT consumer opt-out and data transparency capabilities for […]
The total number of connected devices in Italy reached 111.8 million at the end of 2018, up by 0.5 per cent on the previous year, for an average of 4,6 devices per household. According to the annual Auditel-Censis Report, the number of mobile phones (43.6 million, +1.7 per cent) for the first time surpassed the […]
A retailer in London has been convicted at the City of London Magistrates’ Court for selling illegal streaming devices (ISDs) which gave access to unauthorised Premier League broadcasts and other content. Ammar Al-Silawi was found guilty on two charges of copyright and two charges of fraud, having been found to sell ISDs which provided unlawful […]
Findings from research firm Roy Morgan shows that Google Chromecast is Australia’s most popular digital television service, with 12.1 per cent owning the service. Uptake has more than doubled over the past three years. The proportion of Australians who own digital television services has shown significant growth across all brands in the past three years. […]
Connected TV (CTV) has established itself as a brand building essential that is clearly here to stay. It now accounts for a full 50 per cent of all video ad impressions – twice that of mobile – according to the latest Video Benchmarks report from Extreme Reach (ER), the asset management solution for TV