comScore said that in August YouTube surpassed 10 billion views in a single month in the United States , now on the third anniversary of its $1.65 billion deal with Google, YouTube has released more precise viewing figures than it had in the past, saying it serves more than 1 billion videos a day or […]
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowksi has outlined what he called his new Mobile Broadband Agenda, for an industry he says could be the key supplier of broadband going forward. That plan will include reallocating spectrum from other users, and applying network neutrality standards to wireless broadband, though probably with a different standard for network management from […]
Nielsen has called together 75 of its clients to discuss how to proceed in a possible melding of TV and online audiences. On the agenda is "'TV Everywhere', 'OnDemand Online' and similar initiatives and their implications for television audience measurement." The letter says the purpose of the meeting is to "discuss the work that Nielsen […]
RealNetworks is appealing a court ruling barring it from selling its RealDVD copying software and a set-top device in development that copies DVDs. The company has filed a notice with a Circuit Court of Appeal that it intends to appeal a preliminary injunction preventing it from selling RealDVD or its Facet set-top. In August, US […]
Independent US telecommunications network operator Matanuska Telephone Association (MTA) has selected Amino Communications, as part of their expanded HD IP set-top box deployment. Alaska-based MTA provides over 60,000 lines across its 10,000 square mile network area, offering a range of broadband, IPTV and wireless services to residential and business customers.
According to the The Diffusion Group, revenue from the on-demand delivery of Internet video to the TV will grow from $621 million in 2009 to $2.1 billion by 2014, accounting for more than 25 per cent of total annual video-on-demand revenue. Fuelling this trend is the rapid diffusion of ancillary web-enabled platforms such as game […]
NXP Semiconductors will take a majority stake in Trident Microsystems Inc. in a deal that combines Trident with NXP’s business of selling chip sets for televisions and set-top boxes. The two companies said that privately-held NXP will receive a 60% equity stake in Trident. NXP will get newly issued shares along with a purchase of […]
In the first half of 2009 UK Internet advertising and grew by 4.6 per cent to £1.752 billion (E1.6bn), despite the entire advertising sector contracting by 16.6 per cent during the same period. According to the bi-annual online advertising expenditure study from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) – the trade body for digital marketing – […]
Discovery Communications Europe and Sky Media, (the advertising sales division of BSkyB) have ended their 12 month legal dispute over terms for advertising representation and come up with a new £200m (E217m) four-year deal. Sky Media will represent Discovery as its sole airtime advertising sales agent in the UK across its portfolio of 13 channels […]
From Colin Mann in Cannes KIT digital, a leading global provider of on-demand software solutions for managing and monetising Internet Protocol (IP)-based video assets, has reached deals to acquire two of its leading competitors, Nunet of Cologne, Germany and The FeedRoom, based in New York City. The aggregate consideration paid for Nunet and The FeedRoom […]