4C, a data science company, has revealed the results of its Rugby World Cup tracking on television and social media, providing insight into the behaviour of 1.5 billion unique social media users across 250,000 interest categories, 50,000 brands, 6,000 TV programmes, and 41 languages. Additional data was analysed through 4C’s Teletrax global TV monitoring network, which monitors […]
Ericsson has signed a multi-year news captioning contract with ANC, the Australian news service provider. Ericsson will provide live captioning services for Sky News Live and Sky News Business, which are broadcast to 2.8 million homes across Australia on subscription television provider Foxtel. As part of the contract, Ericsson will also provide captioning services for […]
Intelsat has announced that Brian Jakins has been named as the company’s Regional Vice President of Sales in Africa, effective immediately. Jakins will be based in Johannesburg, South Africa and report to Jean-Philippe Gillet, Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa. With over two decades of experience in the technology sector, including services to enterprises […]
Responding to recently-launched Netflix’s 4K capabilities, Telefónica’s IPTV platform Movistar Plus is launching 4K transmissions, with the first Ultra HD broadcasts of football matches from La Liga and Formula One races on the channels Canal + Liga and Canal Moto GP. Telefónica is using a bitrate three times more than in HD, with 30 Mbps […]
OTT video markets in Asia-Pacific (AP) differ largely due to demographic and economic factors and the telecom landscape. Markets with high adoption rates of pay-TV, fixed broadband and mobile broadband see the most robust and innovative OTT ecosystems. In South Korea and Singapore, where smartphone and pay-TV penetration rates exceed 80 per cent, there are […]
Discovery Communications has reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30th. “Discovery’s unique portfolio of assets and global brands drove yet another quarter of strong worldwide viewership and financial results,” commented David Zaslav, President and CEO of Discovery Communications. “Discovery is like no other media company, propelled by our unmatched global infrastructure, local […]
Parks Associates research shows low consumer familiarity with smart home technologies in key European markets, while one-third of broadband households have strong concerns about the security of smart home products. The firm reports familiarity highest in France, where 12 per cent of broadband households are very familiar with smart home products and services, compared to […]
Live streaming and live-to-VoD services specialist Simplestream has joined Facebook’s Video Publishing Partner programme, giving broadcasters and media owners the ability effortlessly to publish any of their video content across Facebook. Simplestream has developed its proprietary Media Manager solution to allow its customer portfolio such as Scripps, Turner Broadcasting, Discovery, At The Races, Racing UK […]
Swedish triple-play provider Com Hem has reported Q3 revenues of SEK 1,255 million (€134m), up 3.7 per cent, thanks in part to healthy growth in the consumer business. Underlying EBITDA amounted to SEK 590 million, up 2.6 per cent, driven by revenue growth partially offset by revenue mix. Com Hem’s digital TV subs grew by […]
Dubai-based MyHD Media is in the process of relaunching. It lost its former CEO (Cliff Nelson) a few months ago in July and appointed Samir Safer to take over. Safer comes with experience, not least winning a claimed 500,000 subscribers to its Kathmandu-based Dish Media Network in Nepal. Dish Nepal, as at June 2015, said […]