SPI International / FilmBox is launching three live TV channels with Youfone, an MVNO in the Netherlands. Starting this week Youfone’s TV customers get access to three channels from the SPI’s worldwide TV portfolio. The line-up includes DocuBox – a channel featuring documentaries on wild life and human civilisation, FightBox – 24/7 sports channel which […]
Sky Sports says it has strengthened its position as the home of English football with a new deal to show live coverage of the EFL – which covers the second, third and fourth tiers of the professional game – until 2024, offering Sky customers more matches and more ways to watch than ever before. The […]
In 2017, for the first time, smartphones will be the preferred method to access the Internet among adults in the UK, according to research firm eMarketer’s latest time spent forecast. Adults in the UK will spend 1 hour 59 minutes a day on their smartphone, eclipsing their daily time spent on desktops and laptops by […]
As anticipated, Sky has launched an OTT TV streaming service in Spain, a market where it doesn’t have a DTH presence, offering what it describes as “great entertainment and contract-free viewing” to customers to watch on all their devices. The new service will offer the best of Spanish pay TV channels, TV series and on-demand […]
Opera has released a new version of its most mobile browser app, Opera Mini, for iPhone users. The revamped user interface features a newsfeed on its start page and helps users get the news four times faster than the previous version. An artificial intelligent (AI) news engine is also rolling out to selected countries, bringing […]
French telco Iliad has reported H1 revenues are up 7.3 per cent year-on-year to €2,464 million. The Group continued its FTTH rollout drive during the first six months of 2017, with 900,000 new connectible sockets installed, bringing the total to 5.3 million at June 30th 2017, and some 110,000 additional subscribers connected to fibre during […]
IT giant IBM has launched IBM Watson Media, a new suite of AI-powered solutions on the IBM Cloud that analyse images, video, language, sentiment and tone, at the US Open Tennis Championships. By combining IBM Watson with IBM’s video capabilities, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) will be able rapidly to share highlight videos of […]
Sky has launched its first offer that brings together Sky Mobile and Sky TV. For £35 (€38) a month the deal includes a new iPhone SE handset on a Swap24 plan, with 500MB of data, Unlimited Calls and Texts and Sky TV’s Variety bundle. Available to new customers joining Sky or existing Sky TV customers […]
Social media app Snapchat will add scripted content to its service “before the end of year”. Nick Bell, head of content for the photo-sharing platform, said that the company was not seeking to take-on traditional broadcasters, but rather complement them. “Instead, it can help bolster them,” he said, speaking at the Edinburgh International TV Festival. […]
A study from GfK shows that Netflix was used by 3,942,000 people via a mobile, tablet or computer in the Netherlands in July – meaning approximately 27.5 per cent of the country’s population aged 13 and over have access to the SVoD service through a “non-TV” device. Netflix total reach is greater than that of […]