Consumer viewing of TV programming and movies over the Internet is growing, according to a new survey conducted by global consultancy Accenture. The demand for more devices and more online content, as well as consumers’ willingness to pay for better access to content, is reshaping the media and entertainment landscape, it says. The fourth annual […]
Media Asset Management (MAM) solutions, software and services specialist Dalet Digital Media Systems has signed a definitive agreement with Advent Venture Partners to acquire AmberFin, a specialist in video ingest, complex media manipulation, transcoding and quality control (QC) solutions. According to Dalet, the acquisition significantly broadens its product offerings, which are built around an open, […]
Software and networking solutions specialist Imagine Communications is to acquire Digital Rapids, an innovator in IP and file-based media processing solutions and software-defined workflow management technologies. “Imagine Communications is laser-focused on leading the industry to a future defined by IP, software, the cloud and TV Everywhere, with an architecture vision for delivering and monetising multiscreen […]
Channel 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox are partnering to remake Swedish sci-fi drama Real Humans, marking the first time games a console maker has partnered with a UK broadcaster to co-fund a major series. The deal will see Channel 4 air the drama exclusively in the UK in 2015 at the same time as Microsoft makes […]
Vuclip, the independent mobile video and media company, has published the results of a study of Vuclip’s user base conducted by marketing and research firm Millward Brown. The study revealed that Vuclip’s more than 20 million mobile video consumers in India are largely trending towards mobile devices as their go-to source for content with 81 […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment group, has announced an exclusive multi-year content cooperation deal with Sony Pictures Television. All of MTG’s Nordic free-TV, movie channels and platforms will now be able to offer viewers the most recent Sony movies and TV series. Sony Pictures’ latest releases such as The Smurfs, Django Unchained and […]
Technology consultancy Ovum and Informa Telecoms and Media (ITM) Research, both divisions of Informa plc, are to combine under the Ovum brand, to create the world’s largest telecoms industry research firm. The new company, which will also be the fourth-largest technology analyst house globally, says it will offer customers unrivalled analysis across the converging IT, […]
Officials from AAPA, the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance, have stressed the need for swift and effective cross-border enforcement action to overcome the challenges of card sharing and illegal streaming. The comments came at a seminar on IP Sport Crime organised by OHIM (Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market) and Europol. AAPA members Christine Maury-Panis from […]
While a range of trade bodies and consumer groups have line up behind Aereo in its forthcoming Supreme Court hearing with the major broadcast networks by filing amicus (friend of court) briefs, an important voice has expressed an opinion in the form of Copyright Office general counsel Jacqueline C Charlesworth. Speaking at the American Bar […]
The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) based in the City of London Police has called upon advertisers and brand holders to continue to support its work to tackle Intellectual Property crime following the launch of its Infringing Website List (IWL). The IWL, the first of its kind to be developed, sets out to disrupt […]