Canstar Blue has gauged the public perception of SVoD services in Australia to find out if Netflix is the king of the content castle, or whether another service was in fact winning the battle for TV screens (or devices). To do that, the research company asked almost 2,000 Australians adults to
Tru Optik, the audience measurement and data management platform built for OTT and Connected TV, has partnered with Experian Marketing Services, a specialist in data-driven marketing and cloud-based marketing technology, to offer a service providing real-time census-level viewer data for OTT TV programmes and ad exposure across all screens. Tru Optik clients will be able […]
Has America become a marathon nation when it comes to video content consumption? Indications point to “yes”. Seventy per cent of US consumers now binge watch an average of five episodes at a time, and almost one-third (31 per cent) binge on a weekly basis according to Deloitte’s 10th Digital Democracy Survey. In addition to […]
Ofcom has published its UK Home Broadband Performance, comparing the performance of 18 popular broadband packages, from seven major Internet service providers. Virgin Media’s 100Mbit/s and 200Mbit/s services provided the fastest average actual download speeds of all the ISP packages included in the report. Its ‘up to’ 200Mbit/s service recorded the highest average actual download […]
Deluxe Entertainment Services has announced that the company’s multiscreen and OTT delivery platform, Deluxe OnDemand, has expanded its content protection services to include complete support for FairPlay Streaming (FPS) technology with 32-bit encryption for iOS devices and Apple platforms. Programmers and studios now have a complete solution for OTT expansion to the iPhone, iPad, and […]
Chromecast has been rebranded Google Cast to reflect its ability to work across a range of devices. Google says the updated app, which will enable casting of content from multiple devices to TVs, displays and wireless speakers as well as Chromecast dongles, will be rolled out for iOS and Android versions. Google also announced that […]
Almost a quarter of UK homes subscribe to Netflix, with 1.4 million joining the streaming service in 2015 alone, says a BARB survey. More than five million households, or 24 per cent, subscribed to Netflix at the end of 2015, compared with 14 per cent in 2014. Netflix far out sells
Eighty-one per cent of all US smartphone users now stream video on their devices, according to data from The NPD Group’s Connected Intelligence Smartphone and Tablet Usage Report. This usage is being driven primarily by users who are 25 and younger, who spend twice as much time watching video content on YouTube and Netflix mobile […]
Recognising consumers’ desire to view content in alternative ways to traditional TV, digital experience specialist Adobe has revealed an end-to-end offering with Adobe Primetime that extends the solution to help drive audience acquisition, engagement and monetisation across every screen and platform. The new offering delivers more personalised TV and ad experiences directly to consumers via […]
Following the successful launch in October 2015 of live TV streaming app TVPlayer on Amazon Fire, live streaming and live-to-VoD solutions provider Simplestream has confirmed that pay-TV lite streaming service TVPlayer Plus is now available on Amazon Fire TV, which brings the total offering of channels to 75 within a single app for a low-cost […]