Apple has revealed that customers around the world made this holiday season the biggest ever for the App Store, setting new records during the festive period. In the two weeks ending January 3rd, customers spent over $1.1 billion on apps and in-app purchases, setting back-to-back weekly records for traffic and purchases. January 1st 2016 marked […]
Popular TV streaming service TVPlayer is now available on the new Apple TV, giving Apple users the opportunity to watch over 85 of the UK’s top TV channels within a single app. TVPlayer Plus, the low-cost pay-TV service is also available, offering premium channels, including Discovery Channel, TLC, Eurosport 1, HISTORY, and Sony Movie Channel, […]
On September 14th, pay-TV technology provider Motive announced its intention to make TabletTV available on the recently announced new Apple TV platform in the US, UK, and throughout the world. The company has now confirmed that it has developed a beta version of its TabletTV App for the new Apple Television platform and submitted it […]
In tandem with announcing a raft of seasonal offerings, updates to mobile apps and exclusive programming, the BBC iPlayer is launching on the all-new Apple TV. In addition, following the launch of BBC Store in November, people who use BBC iPlayer’s mobile and tablet apps and sign-in will now be able to stream their BBC […]
Canal+ GROUP and iROKO are partnering to create and launch the first Francophone SVoD service aimed at bringing affordable, popular mobile TV content to French-speaking Africa. Announced as part of a multi-million euro deal, this mobile-first Android App with download functionality is set to launch in the coming months. Designed to optimise data consumption, the […]
The QYOU, the international 24/7 media network of curated internet video, has launched a new mobile app that will allow subscription service providers of all types – pay-TV, OTT, SVoD, mobile and more – to deliver The QYOU’s linear and VoD content, selected from the most popular videos online, through an interactive, multiscreen experience. The […]
The number of videos viewed every day on social-messaging app Snapchat has tripled since May this year to six billion according to figures published in FT. However, the data doesn’t reveal the average viewing time per video. Last week, Facebook said it was now registering eight billion views a day of video material posted on […]
Al Jazeera has launched new mobile and tablet apps on the iOS and Android systems bringing the latest Al Jazeera news and programmes live together with on-demand personalisation. The apps, which are available for Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera Arabic, will provide breaking news alerts and special coverage notifications with a curated home screen […]
Strategy Analytics’ iOS apps forecast predicts the Apple iOS App Store will reach nearly $30 billion (€27.2bn) in revenue by 2021. Between 2008 and 2021 Apple will pay out more than $140 billion billion to app developers.While Apple’s App Store continues to generate billions for developers, the companies benefitting continue to change significantly. In 2008 […]
Tablet Television, the joint venture between Motive Television and Granite Broadcasting, is launching TabletTV Plus in Q4 within the US. Through the new TabletTV Plus App, viewers will have access to all broadcast channels available in their market, operate the mobile personal video recorder (PVR) to time shift programmes to fit their own schedules and, […]