Weekly incidence of going online or using a handheld device to watch TV content rose from 34 per cent in 2009 to 39 per cent among broadband users in the US, according to a Horowitz Associates’ study. The study revealed that a full quarter (25 per cent) of broadband users watch TV content online or […]
Formula 1 is set to give the green light for High Definition television coverage of Grand Prix motor racing, beginning with the first race of the 2011 season, according to Autosport magazine. HD coverage ranked top of F1 fans’ wish-lists in recent surveys, but Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone has held back from approving the […]
blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, has made a strategic partnership with Belgacom, Belgium’s leading quadruple play provider, to power TV and Video Search across Belgacom’s new entertainment platform. This strategic partnership is exclusive for Belgium and Luxembourg. Belgacom has chosen to incorporate blinkx’s unique technology into its next generation entertainment platform, which will […]
UK broadband minister Ed Vaizey has declared ISPs should be free to favour traffic from one content provider over another as long as they inform customers. Speaking to the FT Conference this morning Vaizey says the market will decide how far ISPs can go in charging for preferential or guaranteed content delivery and QoS. The […]
Spaniards increasingly spend less on pay TV. In the first half of the year, pay-TV consumption fell by 14.4 per cent with an average monthly expenditure per family of €28, €2.4 lower than the same period last year, according to a report from the National Observatory of Telecommunications and Information Society (ONTSI). The total expenditure […]
Hulu has confirmed that its premium Hulu Plus is now available to everyone (in the US) to sign-up and use and it is dropping the trial price of $9.99 a month to $7.99 and will be crediting those who took it up at the old price. US financial press has reported Hulu is considering an […]
French telecoms operator SFR is launching a new ultra-high speed triple-play service. SFR’s Neufbox Evolution STB is equipped to deliver 3D TV shows and films, as well as delivering content to a user’s smartphone or PC. The service is priced at €34.99 per month – and comes complete with a bundle of voice calls, web […]
MTV has launched an app on the Samsung Galaxy tablet. The app will come preloaded on the device and MTV hopes advertisers will want to use the partnership to reach its young audience on another device. The content on the app will include five full-length videos from popular MTV shows. Users will also be able […]
BlackArrow, a company that provides advertising products for “new TV” platforms, has raised funding from Motorola through its investment arm, Motorola Ventures. The company says that the investment is an extension of BlackArrow’s previously announced $20 million Series C funding round earlier this year. Terms of Motorola’s investment were not disclosed. To date BlackArrow has […]
ITV blames the after effects of last year’s Susan Boyle boom in traffic for a year-on-year decline in ITV.com’s video viewing figures for the first nine months of 2010. ITV.com’s video views fell by 6 per cent. The broadcaster revealed that average monthly video views have fallen by about 1 million year on year in […]