Virgin Media has confirmed that the Spotify TiVo app will be rolling out for all Virgin Media: TiVo customers. The new and exclusive app will enable all Spotify Premium customers to access tracks and playlists through Virgin Media TiVo on their TV or home cinema system, and will automatically appear in the Apps and Games […]
Free to air digital TV platform Freeview is now being watched by more than a million New Zealanders. Freeview’s latest sales figures show more than half a million of New Zealand‚s 1.6 million households were receiving Freeview free to air digital TV. As at the end of October 536,350 homes using Freeview for their television […]
Tudou, an online video company in China, has entered into a programme licence agreementfor the exclusive licence of Japanese anime produced by TV Tokyo Corporation and TY Tokyo Medianet. Under the Agreement, Tudou has the rights to initially simulcast over 60 Japanese anime series in Mainland China, marking the first time that Japanese anime will […]
Pace has provided the software to power Altibox’s newly launched Video on Demand (VoD) portal, allowing the operator to overhaul the experience it delivers to consumers. The new VoD system, delivered using Pace’s Elements software platform, has resulted in 35 per cent growth in user numbers for the on-demand service since its re-launch in January […]
One of the City’s biggest investors, Legal & General, has joined a growing band of shareholders set to oppose James Murdoch’s re-election as chairman of BSkyB at the AGM on Tuesday. L&G, which supported his chairmanship last year and holds 2.9 per cent of the company, has changed its view on the suitability of Murdoch […]
Hulu’s SVP Johannes Larcher and consultant Olaf Kroll are currently talking to German TV networks to strike content deals for a launch in the country, according to a report by German news outlet Horizont. Hulu started talking to potential partners in Europe years ago, but wasn’t actually able to follow through on any of its […]
Poland’s leading DTH service Platform ‘n’ will launch a new OTT service today. ‘n’ says nVOD NET will virtually transform the Platform ‘n’ satellite receiver into a multimedia home entertainment terminal, giving subscribers access to thousands of additional videos and movies. As a supplement to Platform ‘n’s existing linear content, the new nVOD NET service […]
Sky Movies is now available live and on demand on mobile and tablets as well as on TV and online. Following the launch of a movies on demand service on the Sky Go app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, millions of Sky TV customers now have access to hundreds of movies when and where […]
Australia’s competition regulator has delayed its decision on whether the A$1.9 billion Foxtel acquisition of regional pay-TV provider Austar should be allowed to proceed. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said the announcement – which was planned for Wednesday – had been delayed ‘‘at the request of Foxtel to allow it to make further […]
Leaders of the advertising, media and entertainment sector have converged in New York, London and Melbourne for the inauguration of the Connected TV Marketing Association (CTVMA), the global industry trade body of the advertising, media and entertainment sector. The CTVMA has been set up to inform and educate the advertising, media and entertainment sector on […]