Consumers worldwide increasingly depend on smartphones to access digital content and tend to go online to purchase video games, movies and books, according to the latest State of Digital Downloads research report – based on a survey of 3,500 consumers ranging in age, gender, and education in France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, the UK, and […]
Sky has built on its content offering with a new agreement to broadcast exclusively, with the Perform Group as sub-licensee, the UEFA Champions League in Germany and Austria. Sky Deutschland will broadcast the 2018/19 season through to 2020/21 across satellite, cable, IPTV, web and mobile platforms. “We are extremely pleased with this result which means […]
The Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) has approved the planned takeover of Coditel Brabant SPRL and its subsidiary Coditel (together, “SFR BeLux”) by Telenet Group for €400 million. Under the brand name SFR (formerly Numéricable), SFR BeLux provides cable and mobile telephony services in Brussels, Wallonia and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Now that the BCA […]
The fourth ranked mobile operator in Spain, MasMovil, is reportedly finalising an agreement with China’s Huawei and several TV content providers to launch a pay-TV service this summer. The company aims to compete with the country’s largest operators -Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange – with a similar convergent offer including TV. MasMovil is partnering with Huawei […]
French telco Orange has launched a new SVoD and mobile data package with Canal Plus affiliate IROKO+. Initially rolling out in Cameroon, the offer gives 24 hours access to the IROKO+ SVoD library and 300Mb of mobile data for 200 FCFA (€0.30). The IROKO+ catalogue of 2,500 titles mostly consists of Nollywood productions, African content […]
The Council of the European Union has adopted new rules to allow consumers who paid for online content services in their home country to access them when visiting another country within the EU. The new regulation will improve competitiveness by encouraging innovation in online services and attracting more consumers. It is one of the objectives […]
Over the next five years (2016 – 2021), global digital transformation will continue to have a significant impact on the demands and requirements of IP networks according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Complete Forecast. Top-level indicators include
Trade association Cable Europe has welcomed the adoption of new rules which will enable cable customers to access their cable subscription, their favourite TV show or live football match whilst on the move abroad. The new rules form part of the Digital Single Market Strategy, and were first set out by the European Commission eighteen […]
YuMe, a partner for video advertising leadership and innovation, has released areport and that reveals growing consumer awareness and preference for vertical video as both a content and advertising format. Vertical video offers a natural experience within mobile and app content as the video is designed for upright, portrait mode viewing. According to the study, […]
The mobile AR platform war was kicked by Mark Zuckerberg’s “We’re making the camera the first augmented reality platform.” That simple sentence, said at F8 in April, transformed what had been a one-hit wonder in Pokémon Go into an epic battle between Facebook, Apple, Google, Tencent, Snap, Alibaba, Baidu, Samsung, Huawei and more. Now Apple’s […]