Yahoo has announced the availability of independent viewability and fraud measurement for display and video advertising on Yahoo owned and operated properties, as well as media purchased across its programmatic buying platform. Yahoo is partnering with third-party measurement companies that align with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Media Rating Council (MRC) to bring unbiased, […]
In just the last 3 months, Amazon has added over 600 channels, apps and games to the Amazon Fire TV platform – more than Roku and Apple TV in the same timeframe the company claims. Popular new titles include Popcornflix, Funny Or Die, Candy Crush Saga, and Fox News. In addition to these new titles, […]
According to PwC’s latest Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2015-2019, the UK Entertainment and Media (E&M) market is expected to grow by 3.2 per cent compound annually (CAGR) from 2014-2019 to a value of £66.6 billion (€91.6bn) in 2019. In 2014,
Australia’s NewSat assets look likely to be sold within days to a foreign buyer. Australia’s Financial Review suggests that the assets are being examined by a number of potential buyers, but Malaysia’s Measat looks to be the front runner. NewSat’s prime asset is a part-built satellite, Jabiru-1, but that is still at Lockheed Martin in […]
Virgin Media has won the latest patent claim brought by Rovi Corporation. This is the eleventh successive ‘win’ for Virgin, out of the eleven patent disputes. All of the eleven have now been found invalid or been revoked by either the English Court or by the European Patent Office (EPO). Judgments in respect of two […]
illuminate has completed a digital restoration of the iconic TV series, The X-Files. Retransferred from the camera-original negative, the show’s entire 201 episodes have been reassembled in HD using illuminate’s proprietary iConform technology. All nine seasons of The X-Files have now been released on Netflix. iConform, illuminate’s proprietary software, was used to automatically edit together […]
The CASBAA-sponsored Satellite Industry Forum heard some grave warnings that the local satellite operators face a “winter” of oversupply capacity. Speaker after speaker warned that there’s a high risk of over-supply even, while other speakers said they also wanted a slice of the action. Myanmar, for example, doesn’t have its own satellite, and U Thaung […]
Findings from the latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report show that by 2020, advanced mobile technology will be commonplace around the globe: smartphone subscriptions will more than double, reaching 6.1 billion, 70 per cent of the world’s population will
Chinese online video and internet TV content provider LeTV has revealed that the company plans to invest HKD 6 billion (€0.7bn) on content production and copyright licensing in Hong Kong over the next three years. LeTV’s goal is to become the second largest premium channel in Hong Kong by the end of next year. Since […]
Vimeo has introduced the first phase of its new subscription tools for Vimeo On Demand, the open transactional VoD platform. Now in addition to offering content à la carte for sale or rental, creators can choose to charge fans a monthly subscription fee for unlimited viewing. The new subscription tools are one more way Vimeo […]