US pay-TV Network STARZ has launched its STARZ digital retail service, providing STARZ streaming subscriptions directly to consumers and offering what it says is the first-ever download capabilities from a premium pay-TV streaming service. For $8.99 per month, fans now have the opportunity to enjoy instant access to more than 2,400 selections each month, including […]
UK pubcaster Channel 4 has launched All 4’s ‘Watch Live’ feature on Android devices giving users the opportunity to watch live broadcasts from all Channel 4’s channels on their own personal device, wherever they are. This latest feature for Android users arrives just ahead of Channel 4’s first-ever live Formula 1 race, the 2016 Formula […]
England’s Football League has announced that free wi-fi, for a set of official apps, will be made available at select Championship, League One and League Two stadiums. Fans will be able to access club-branded apps to get news, social media content, highlights and betting. The Football League said “the majority” of clubs had signed up […]
In keeping with its strategy of making its content available to all its viewers across as many platforms as possible, Sky is launching a new app just for kids – available from March 31 – designed to offer a safe and fun way for pre-schoolers to nine-year-olds to enjoy the widest range of the most […]
UK multi-play operator EE – now part of BT – has unveiled Recordings To Go, a feature designed to set new standards in how consumers access and watch the TV they love. Claiming a UK first, EE says that TV lovers can select content from any of EE TV’s 70+ free-to-view channels to record and […]
Facebook has revealed its decision to discontinue support for its Blackberry app. It means Blackberry users will have to use the mobile version of the website to log on to the social network. Earlier this month WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, also announced that it would only continue to support Blackberry’s Android-powered Priv handset. […]
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 […]
OSN, the leading pay-TV network in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has launched a new app that offers subscribers access to their OSN Plus HD box with new ways to discover OSN’s vast library of content. Designed to enhance the OSN TV viewing experience, the OSN App’s intuitive interface allows subscribers to easily […]
Data from Juniper Research has found that app advertising, using context and location targeting, will exceed $44 billion by 2020, up from an estimated $13 billion last year. As the mobile advertising landscape matures, the simple geofence is being usurped by contextual data such as a user’s interests, real-time location and even political leanings. The […]
Digital media research from Parks Associates finds 65 per cent of US broadband households engage in at least one second-second screen activity on at least a monthly basis. The research finds the most common activity is to search for information about the programme being watched. “Most consumers favour a passive second-screen experience that