It was on June 28th that a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket exploded seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral. A preliminary investigation, overseen by the Federal Aviation Authority, NASA and the US Air Force, into the loss has determined that a broken metal strut was the probable cause. CEO Elon Musk, at a press briefing in California […]
Programmatic buying and selling of online display-related advertising generated $10.1 billion in 2014, comprising 20 per cent of last year’s overall internet advertising revenues ($49.5 billion) according to the IAB Programmatic Revenue Report, a first-ever study sizing the US programmatic market from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and prepared by PwC US. This figure represents
MTG, the Nordic pay-TV broadcaster, saw sales of SEK1.49 billion (€159m) in the second quarter, up 3 per cent year-on-year. EBIT was flat at SEK185 million. Pay-TV in the emerging markets saw revenue growth of 12 per cent to SEK303 due in part to the consolidation of Trace, which helped lift wholesale mini-pay channel sales […]
Research revealing the most shareable online video content has been unveiled by video sharing and collaboration service StreamSafe. By analysing the 100 most shared videos online, StreamSafe’s research revealed that ‘inspiration’ is the emotion most likely to encourage viewers to share a video. Just under half (48 per cent) of the 1,000 UK consumers surveyed […]
Ed Husic, Australia’s Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Treasurer, has suggested that consumers aren’t all to blame for piracy, with governments and business having to step up and offer people what they want, and that “bureaucratic hammers” will do little to reform a market problem. Writing in Labor Party publication Labor Herald on ‘Piracy […]
A month ago Thailand’s National Broadcasting & Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) wanted to ban Thai TV from all transmission possibilities. Thai TV’s problem was that it wanted to reverse its application for a pair (news and the ‘Loca’ family channel) of costly new digital channels as part of the nation’s roll-out of digital terrestrial TV. Now, […]
Vice UK has been successful in its appeal against a determination by ATVOD that the video section of its website was subject to regulation by the UK VoD regulator. The youth-orientated news outlet claimed that as the content was hosted by its parent company Vice Media (based in the US), it did not come under […]
Quickplay, the global specialist in powering premium video to any device, has concluded its fiscal year and announced it can reach one billion addressable viewers via its managed video platform service. In response to increased demand for OTT video services globally, Quickplay has up-scaled its service platform to become one of the largest end-to-end managed […]
According to a forecast by the independent telecoms analyst firm Ovum, total handset sales are expected to grow from 1.88 billion to 2.16 billion units between 2014 and 2020, at a compound annual growth (CAGR) rate of 2.4 per cent. Smartphones will comprise 95 per cent of global handset sales by 2020, up from 65 […]
India’s Videocon d2h pay-TV operator has upped the number of HD channels to 37. It has added Star Movies Select HD and Fox Life HD to its existing portfolio. Videocon d2h says this part of a drive to boost its HD offerings to 50 channels “shortly”. “We have been relentless in our pursuit to gratify […]