French telco Orange is looking for a new financial partner to invest in video sharing platform Dailymotion. According to daily Le Monde, Orange has not given up the idea to expand Dailymotion internationally. Orange has spent an additional €30 million on the platform since 2013 and Dailymotion still faces strategic questions about international growth. Last […]
KnowHow Movies, the UK OTT entertainment service launched in March 2012 by Dixons Retail, is re-launching as CinemaNow, which it says means access to an even greater digital entertainment experience with a subscriber’s favourite films and TV shows. In an e-mail to subscribers, the service says that users will be seamlessly transported to its new […]
Xiaomi, China’s largest smartphone vendor, is set to acquire Youku Tudou shares on the open market and also license content from China’s most popular video-streaming site. Joy Han, a spokeswoman for Xiaomi, and Jay Chen, a Youku Tudou spokesman, both declined to comment on the amount of the investment. Lei Jun, Xiaomi’s chief executive officer, […]
Amazon has announced the line-up for its first pilot season of 2015 which is scheduled to début early in the new year exclusively on Amazon Instant Video in the US, UK and Germany, which it hopes will emulate the success of 2014 commissions. Customers will find a wide-range of genres in this latest slate of […]
According to white-label video management and publishing company thePlatform, broadcasters around the world are grappling with how to make their linear TV broadcasts available for instant replay on any screen, while enforcing viewing or advertising policies. It suggests that most remain hampered by disjointed legacy systems and processes that inhibit speed and efficiency. In response, […]
Vodafone is launching UK TV services next spring using its Cable & Wireless business fibre network and BT’s Openreach network to provide its broadband and TV service. Pricing, and what TV content will be offered, has yet to be announced. Vittorio Colao, Vodafone’s chief executive, said: “We have recently launched a combined fixed broadband and […]
When prospective Republican Presidential nominee Ted Cruz was searching for an insult to describe President Obama’s clear support of the Neutral Netters he spat out “It’s Obamacare for the Internet”. That’s a phrase guaranteed to jar like fingernails down a blackboard over here in Europe. We (in the UK and the US) are two nations […]
More than ten years after its launch into space – on a mission to chase down Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – the Rosetta spacecraft is nearing the next phase of its journey: plant a lander called Philae on the speeding comet. On November 12th, National Geographic Channel will broadcast online a live stream of the European Space […]
New figures from Mediabug – Decipher’s bi-annual UK media consumption tracker – have shown how the increasing popularity of TV connected services such as Now TV is leading to more viewers choosing their TV over laptops and devices for accessing video on demand content. The firm’s Mediabug Wave 5 reports that both PCs and tablets […]
BT is launching a new package that brings together BT Infinity, Netflix, BT TV and a free YouView box, for a monthly fee of £5.99 (€7.63) for the first 6 months. Customers signing up to Netflix with BT TV will see Netflix integrated into their BT bill, a first for Netflix in the UK, enabling […]