The Deutsche Telekom Business Development and Innovation unit (BDI) and premium content services provider Vubiquity are partnering to enable a comprehensive solution for operators and service providers looking to launch multiscreen video services. Vubiquity will provide all content-related services for the Deutsche Telekom VideoRise solution. The modular-based, end-to-end platform combines the components needed to manage […]
Motive and Tablet TV have signed licence agreements regarding the Tablet TV Joint Venture in the US. Motive and TTV have entered into two agreements under which the Joint Venture receives non-transferable, perpetual, and irrevocable licences for use of Motive’s technology for the territory of the US and Canada to be used for the business […]
Xstream, the provider of OTT and TV Everywhere services and vendor of the award winning video management system, Xstream MediaMaker, has announced the expansion of its operations with the opening of its office in Singapore. The office will serve as the central hub for Xstream’s business development in the Asia-Pacific region. The Asia-Pacific operations will […]
Netflix is reportedly in advanced negotiations for an autumn launch in Spain, with a tentative date of September 1st already tabled. Spanish financial daily newspaper Expansion claims that Netflix is negotiating with major Hollywood studios and independent distributors with an eye to launching in the country. The daily also cites sources close to TV manufacturer […]
Revenue generated by the Chinese online video market reached 23.97 billion yuan (€3.46 billion) in 2014, increasing 76.4 per cent from a year earlier and helped by the sale of self-produced content rights, according to consulting firm iResearch. The fast growth of last year’s revenues was mainly driven by the sales of home-produced content to […]
NBCUniversal and Gray Television have entered into an agreement that will expand NBCUniversal TV Everywhere offering of local NBC linear streams in the US beyond the NBC-owned stations for the first time. The agreement enables Gray to include the live linear simulcasts of its 24 NBC affiliated television stations, including NBC network and local programming, […]
Christopher Slaughter, CEO, CASBAA told its OTT summit: “The Asia Pacific region is still primarily driven by the traditional linear TV market but, as our speakers have detailed today, there is tremendous business potential in tapping into OTT.” Christine Fellowes, Board Member Responsible, CASBAA OTT & Connected Media Group, and MD Asia Pacific, Universal Networks […]
Telefonica is to launch its mobile TV platform, Movistar TV Go, on devices with Windows Phone OS following a deal with Microsoft. The Movistar TV Go service for Windows Phone 8.1 will enable Telefónica users to watch linear and on demand content by simply speaking into the phone through Cortana voice recognition technology, which has […]
Sling TV, the US OTT service from DISH, has launched AMC and IFC into its “Best of Live TV” $20 core package, and has also unveiled a movie-based add-on pack branded “Hollywood Extra” for an additional $5 per month. The add-on pack anchored by EPIX, will include content from EPIX, EPIX2, EPIX3, EPIX Drive-In and […]
TiVo’s CEO Tom Rogers said that viewing consumers are facing “chaotic changes” in the variety and amount of programming available to them. “Infinite amounts of new and compelling content coming from all directions, traditional linear TV, live sports and other events, recorded programming, video-on-demand, subscription video-on-demand, TV Everywhere and web streaming services. In this new […]