Spending on movies and TV shows in the home entertainment market eked out 1 per cent growth in 2013, the second straight year of increase after declining at a 3 per cent compound annual rate from the market peak in 2004 through 2011, according to preliminary estimates of the US market from IHS Technology. Modest […]
ITV Commercial has revealed results from a number of successful ad campaigns within The X Factor app 2013. Key findings show that interactive content is the most effective way to engage second screen users and drive post-advertising actions. ITV launched its Ad Sync format in 2012, creating a new interactive ad format which allows viewers […]
Internet TV streaming service Aereo plans to launch its technology in the Greater Cincinnati region on January 21st. Greater Cincinnati includes 24-county area across Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. In January 2013, Aereo said that it intended to expand to 22 new US cities beyond its New York initial launch during the course of the year, […]
Internet entertainment streaming service Netflix has garnered its first Oscar nomination for The Square, a documentary about the 2011 revolution and ongoing strife in Egypt. On January 12th Netflix won its first Golden Globe, with Robin Wright being awarded Best Actress in a Drama for her role in House of Cards. Netflix acquired the streaming […]
Despite a few false starts, television brands remain committed to the success of active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) sets, with the new impetus evident at the International CES expected to cause shipments to rise to more than 10 million units in 2018, according to IHS Technology. Global unit shipments of AMOLED television panels […]
The UK tablet market will drop in 2014, with sales expected to decline from 17 million in 2013 to less than 14 million this year. This is according to the annual tablet forecast from telecom analysts CCS Insight. The forecast follows
For the quarter ended on December 31st 2013, French technology specialists Netgem has reported consolidated revenues of € 23.5 million – 2 per cent up on a year earlier – bringing its consolidated revenue throughout 2013 to € 81.3 million, of which 77 per cent was generated abroad. Netgems’s Q4 international revenues came to €19.4 […]
More than 2.5 million Canadian households will have multiple TV subscriptions, paying for TV through a traditional distributor and at least one other OTT TV service, up over 150 per cent from 2012 levels. By the end of 2014, the number of households that will pay for a second basket of TV content will be […]
NBCUniversal International has revealed plans to make ITV Studios’ smash hit period drama Mr Selfridge available to download and own from iTunes three days before the broadcast of each episode (of the second series) on ITV. This Electronic Sell-Through (EST) agreement marks the first time ITV Studios Global Entertainment has agreed a deal for an […]
In the Oscar-nominated Hollywood movie ‘Gravity’ the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) is smashed to smithereens by orbiting debris. While in 2012 the whole ISS was gently moved four times because of the dangers from orbiting debris, last year was calmer despite a growing threat from all-too-real debris. NASA says that 2013 was a relatively […]