French media giant Vivendi has closed the acquisition of an 80 per cent stake in video-sharing portal Dailymotion from Orange for €217 million. The pair announced on April 7 that they had entered into exclusive negotiations regarding the acquisition. Orange will retain a 20 per cent stake in the company. The acquisition gives Vivendi access […]
Findings from the second annual TiVo Spring 2015 Binge Viewing Survey indicate that binge viewing, defined as viewing more than three episodes of a series in a day, has continued its meteoric rise in both perception and popularity. Negative perception of binge viewing has greatly decreased, to only 30 per cent of respondents (versus 53 […]
Vodafone Portugal has launched the Funbox 4K Ultra-HD channel which, as the name implies, broadcasts content in 4K. The offer is only available for customers of the operator’s fibre service that are equipped with an Ultra-HD TV set. In a statement, Vodafone Portugal has promised that the content portfolio will be extended in the coming […]
Imagine this: Two out of the only three businesses which can launch your satellites are – in effect – wholly unavailable, and the third is booked up through to 2017. What do you do next? That’s the dilemma facing senior managers at Eutelsat, SES, Iridium, Orbcomm, Viasat, Spacecom/Amos of Israel, SkyPerfect/JSAT of Japan, Inmarsat/Arabsat and […]
According to Pond5, a marketplace for royalty-free video footage, 4K resolution video is finally having its day. As 2015 passes the midway point, 4K televisions, cameras, and computer monitors are filling shelves, with lower prices than ever. Pond5 analysts looked at more than three years of internal data from the company’s network of 40,000 contributing […]
Nearly half of British sports fans have put their work to one side and tuned into live sport on their portable screens according to research commissioned by Sky’s NOW TV. The research also reveals that over a quarter (27 per cent) admit to watching sport in secret: booking covert meeting rooms to keep up with […]
Latin America’s telecom services generated $107.7 billion (€96.5bn) in revenue in 2014, according to data published today by Dataxis. By 2018, this figure will grow by 2 per cent, reaching $109.8 billion. Data includes combined revenue from mobile, fixed telephony and fixed broadband services in the region’s seven largest markets: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, […]
Almost half of online display ads in 2014 – worth just under £1 billion – were bought through ‘programmatic’ technologies, according to the second annual industry study quantifying how UK digital display advertising is traded. The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) UK’s Media Owner Sales Techniques study, conducted by research and strategy consultancy MTM, reveals that […]
Dozens of electronic items including suspected illegal set-top boxes have been seized from an apartment in the UK West Midlands town of Walsall. The items were located after a joint investigation by the Metropolitan Police and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) into the sales of illegal set-top boxes that allow free access to subscription […]
New Zealand’s DTT provider Freeview has launched a new platform designed to give New Zealanders easy access to on-demand video services on their TVs – FreeviewPlus. In a New Zealand first, FreeviewPlus uses Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) to enable seamless integration and switching between broadcast TV and on-demand services. The service is free to […]