TeliaSonera and Telenor have entered into an agreement to merge their Danish operations into a new joint venture where the parties will own 50 per cent each. The new joint venture will create a robust mobile operator that is able to increase investments in networks to the benefit of our customers. “We are making a […]
Digitalsmiths, a TiVo company, and specialist in personalised content search and recommendations, has launched Seamless Insight, a reporting and analytics platform. Seamless Insight provides video service providers actionable visibility to optimise targeted content promotions that increase average revenue per user (ARPU) and improve viewer engagement. As personalised content discovery features expand, video service providers face […]
Samsung Electronics Co. UK has confirmed the availability of a refreshed and improved Curzon Home Cinema Smart TV App on the Samsung Smart Hub, giving users access to select films, including recently acclaimed titles Joe starring Nicolas Cage, and Ida from director Pawel Pawlikowski, the day they are released in Curzon cinemas. Widening its cinema […]
Expenditure on online advertising in Australia is predicted to increase from A$1.1 million in 2014 to A$2.4 million in 2018, at a CAGR of 16 per cent. The annual growth rate is predicted to gradually decline over the five year period to around 10 per cent during 2019. Frost & Sullivan research finds that online […]
Bell Media has unveils a first-look strategy for its subscription on demand video streaming service that will see episodes of original Canadian series premiere on ‘Project Latte’ 24 hours in advance of their network television premières. The announcement was made as Bell Media revealed the premium Canadian scripted content that will be available on the […]
AOL has acquired Vidible, a specialist in cross-screen video management and exchange platform for buyers and sellers of digital media, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition further extends AOL’s leadership position in video content management and syndication, and creates the most comprehensive set of video content management tools in the marketplace for creators and publishers. […]
WRN Broadcast is providing pioneering local TV broadcaster Made TV with distribution services to make its local TV content available on the UK Sky platform. The service includes multiplexing, encoding and uplinking onto WRN Broadcast’s satellite capacity for four local TV channels. This will allow over 10 million viewers living around Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds and […]
Fox International Channels (FIC), 21st Century Fox’s international multimedia business, continues to extend the distribution of its main TV brands across Africa with the launch of eight FIC channels on the new Nigerian pay-TV platform, African Cable TV (ACTV). The partnership between the two companies increases FIC’s reach in Africa to more than 17.3 million […]
The Kudelski Group, an independent provider of media protection and value-added service technology, has announced a multi-year patent licence agreement with VEVO. While the specific terms remain confidential, this agreement provides VEVO with a licence to the Kudelski Group’s patent portfolio, subject to certain limitations. “The Kudelski Group continues to invest heavily in developing technology […]
Next generation cable provider Layer3 TV has selected SeaChange International as a key vendor for its in-home platform, which will launch in the US in 2015. Layer3 TV will use SeaChange’s open Nucleus video gateway software to deliver a service that incorporates the best of television, social and digital life – all within the existing […]