Sony Pictures Television has announced the availability of the Crackle app for BlackBerry 10 smartphones on the BlackBerry World storefront. Crackle is an ad-funded, video entertainment network that offers hundreds of Hollywood movies, television series and originals for free. Content is uncut and unedited, and programmed from several genres, including action, comedy, crime, anime, horror, […]

The Rolling Stones Glastonbury performance on Saturday night has clocked up nearly 700,000 views on the iPlayer according to figures from the BBC. This is almost double the 379,680 who viewed The Arctic Monkeys’ Friday headline performance. Mumford and Sons, who headlined on the Sunday, drew 163,650 requests. The youth appeal of the Arctic Monkeys […]

Nearly one-third of US telco TV households are expected to access multiscreen or TV Everywhere services by the end of 2013, according to ABI Research, with the vast majority already using advanced interactive features such as remote programming a DVR. Cable is close behind as a result of its early lead, but the growth rate […]

The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report reveals an increasingly connected Australian home, with 27 per cent now having access to four screens: television, computer, smartphone an tablet (16 per cent a year ago). The report, which covers the first quarter of calendar 2013, shows media consumption patterns are evolving as households add new technologies. Overall television […]

Rentrak has released its initial findings on mobile broadcast television usage. Results from its new Mobile TV Essentials service shows news is the leading genre of content watched from Dyle mobile TV – a new service offering broadcast television on mobile devices in the US. Key findings include: – The average Dyle mobile TV device […]

The UK mobile advertising market is forecast to almost double in 2013 to £1 billion (€1.17bn), as Google, Facebook and Twitter increasingly successfully ride the smartphone, tablet and app wave. It is set to grow by 90 per cent year on year, from £526 million in 2012, according to digital ad spend figures published by […]

Findings from Ooyala, the specialist in video publishing, analytics and monetisation, indicate that tablet and mobile video have attained new consumption records, with live video dominating video-on-demand. The company’s Global Video Index Q1 2013 reveals key trends that are transforming linear television into a personalised, online, mobile experience. Similar to previous quarters, Q1 2013 data […]

Mobile devices are becoming an increasingly common part of our daily TV routines. According to a Nielsen survey of connected device owners, nearly half of smartphone owners (46 per cent) and tablet owners (43 per cent) said they use their devices as second screens while watching TV every day. And more than two-thirds of tablet […]