The way audiences watch television is changing. With new types of video services competing for viewers’ time, traditional players must respond to survive. But what kind of new viewing habits are evolving, and how will the current wave of innovation permanently alter the way consumers watch broadcast content? In August 2015, Brightcove commissioned research firm […]
The OTT TV and video business lures operators and broadcasters with an expanded audience reach, new technological capabilities and unrivaled user engagement levels. However, to succeed, TV operators have to meet such challenges like complex video delivery and an uncertain business model. And they also have to differentiate themselves from all other access methods for […]
Motive Television has confirmed its intention to make TabletTV available on the recently announced new Apple TV platform. This will mean that Apple TV users will be able to receive, watch, schedule recordings, and enjoy all live digital terrestrial (OTA) broadcast channels, Internet channels as well as VoD services through TabletTV on their main televisions. […]
Satellite operators SES and Eutelsat, two of the leading players in the global video distribution market, have unveiled an industry-wide initiative to develop and promote next-generation video technologies, standards and formats, focusing initially on the reception of satellite services on any screen and on converged broadcast-broadband technologies. Called the Future Video Initiative, this new project […]
Usage of laptops and smartphones is outpacing that of STBs and smart TVs in the connected living rooms of today, according to new global research from Irdeto. The research reinforces a growing consumer trend of multi-screen usage and second screen devices becoming ‘first screens’, with PCs or laptops being the most used devices in living […]
Amazon has stopped selling its Fire smartphone just 15 months after the mobile handset was launched. According to its website, both the 32GB and 64GB models are “currently unavailable”, and Amazon says it has no plans to restock the devices. It follows reports of lay-offs at the company, after the phone failed to resonate with […]
Consumer and advertising expenditure on handset-based mobile media will rise twelve per cent in 2015, and approach $425 billion (€380bn) by 2021, according to Strategy Analytics. Strong growth in smartphone penetration, combined with ubiquitous data connectivity via mobile and WiFi networks, and latent consumer demand to access popular Internet services continues to drive the consumption […]
Disney has announced multiple partner and device additions to its cloud-based digital movie service, Disney Movies Anywhere (DMA), continuing to expand upon its promise to provide more ways to buy and watch your Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars movies at home or on the go. Starting immediately in the US, Amazon Video and Microsoft […]
Verizon Communications is launching a trial version of its new mobile video service, aiming to prove that telecom players can compete with Google and Facebook. The service, a mobile app dubbed “go90”, will be offered initially to a select set of its own customers, with advertisements from well-known brands but without newly acquired ad technology […]
Viacom has announced the launch of Viacom Play Plex, a suite of mobile TV apps allowing its distribution partners to offer smartphone and tablet users around the world access to the best content from all of its international TV brands, anytime and anywhere. Starting in the fourth quarter of 2015, the Viacom Play Plex apps […]