Globecast has partnered with Virgin Media to supply seven channels for the platform’s expanded international TV content. In total Virgin Media is adding ten more international channels to its TV service. Globecast is supplying seven channels for Virgin Media’s Worldbox service, a new app offering live streams of international channels via Virgin Media TiVo. The […]
Videology, the video advertising technology platform, has released research findings on viewable video impressions that illustrate the complexities still surrounding viewability, and issued caution in using viewability ratings as the primary gauge of campaign performance. The findings also suggest that technology can help advertisers improve the percentage of ads viewed by consumers through proper targeting […]
According to findings from BT, rather than making the most of days off from work to get away for a break, almost half of Brits (48 per cent) have used their holiday days to enjoy TV. Two in five (42 per cent) telly fans claimed they intentionally booked annual leave for the purpose of watching […]
Italian free-to-view DTH service TivuSat has added 275,000 net new subscribers during 2014, and taking its total to more than 2.3 million ‘active’ smart cards. The broadcast platform says its numbers are the equivalent of some 1.9 million households, or more than 8 per cent of Italian TVHHs. TivuSat’s success, in part, explains why Sky […]
Content and asset protection solutions specialist CEG TEK International has introduced its Holiday Piracy Portal located at www.cegtek.com/holiday. According to COO Kyle Reed, the Portal is designed to provide peer-to-peer (P2P) download demand data across BitTorrent users worldwide including geolocation metrics and interactive mapping features. Of the 41 films tracked, Home Alone remains number one […]
Findings from Rightscorp, a provider of monetisation services for artists and holders of copyrighted intellectual property (IP), suggest that content piracy is in fact not declining and is still a very serious ongoing threat to copyright owners, Rightscorp’s Chief Executive Officer Christopher Sabec and President and Chief Operating Officer Robert Steele presented
Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services, has released a report in which online video professionals in North America and Europe share insights about how their organisations leverage content delivery networks (CDNs), as well as how they consume content both personally and professionally. The report found
Jason Kilar, former CEO of online entertainment streaming service Hulu, has revealed further details of web video operation Vessel which aims to provide early access to the web’s best short-form videos through a low-priced subscription service. In a blog post, The First Window for Web Video, Kilar notes that over the past few months, there […]
Comcast has launched Xfinity in UHD, a 4K streaming app that will initially be available on 2014 Samsung UHD TVs and provide free access to a set of TV shows from NBC and USA Network. Initially shows delivered on demand via the authenticated streaming app on Samsung’s SMART Hub won’t include ads, but will allow […]
Worldwide CE sales are forecast to rise by 4.5 per cent in 2014 to reach $707 billion (trade value), driven largely by a 24 per cent growth in mobile sales. Despite the convergence, Futuresource forecasts the CE market to continue to grow to $733 billion by 2018, with the growth coming primarily from mobile devices. […]