A study designed to help marketers engage the right generation on the right screen has found marked differences across generations in respect of how generations use digital devices to perform daily activities, to consume content, and to shop online. The study, Getting Audiences Right, from
Netflix is facing two very serious challenges to its current hegemony over OTT streaming, and its business may never be the same, according to Alan Wolk, contributing analyst at TDG Research. Wolk suggests that
As more traditional content providers move toward offering stand-alone OTT subscription video on demand (SVoD) services, many industry pundits are predicting the demise of traditional television viewership and multichannel services, declaring that the era of a la carte is finally here. New data from Horowitz Research, however, indicates that these changes in the industry represent […]
Spanish media company Mediapro, operator of Gol TV, has beaten media group Prisa in their long-running dispute over football TV rights in the country. The Supreme Court has exonerated Mediapro from paying €105 million to Prisa after overruling a previous decision taken by a lower Court which had ordered it to pay that amount for […]
The Streaming Video Alliance (SVA), a newly formed industry forum comprised of leading companies from the online video ecosystem has held its first session, which included confirmation of the Board of Directors, approval of SVA goals for 2015 and commissioning of SVA working groups. The SVA was established to build an open architecture, standards and […]
Google’s Chromecast is said to have sold over ten million units globally. While Google’s US headquarters hasn’t released Chromecast sales figures, Google Korea has told the Korea Times the company sold about ten million of the streaming media TV HDMI adapters in 2014, and it now supports more than 350 apps and services. “According to […]
Twitter says “a lot more coming on the mobile video front” as it revealed it now sees more than 1.5 billion Vine loops a day for its short video service. CEO Dick Costolo told the firm’s earnings call that the launch last week of a new feature that lets Twitter users capture, edit and share […]
Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy, has announced the single biggest expansion of local digital radio coverage in the UK, which means that nearly eight million more people will receive their favourite local radio stations on DAB loud and clear. A programme of new local and national transmitters will also mean that […]
US-based pay-radio broadcaster Sirius-XM has reported record revenue and subscriber numbers. CEO James Meyer told analysts that 2014 provided excellent performance on all fronts. “In 2014, we originally projected that we will grow our subscriber base by 1.25 million, but we actually delivered growth of 1.75 million net new subscribers in 2014, ending the year […]
Japanese pay-TV operator SkyPerfectTV added 30,692 net new subscribers in January to take its total subscriber base to 3,405,964 at the end of January 2015. The net gain saw 3,068 new subs take the top tier while 27,133 take the basic offering. All of SkyPerfectTV’s premium HDTV transmissions take place in MPEG4/H.264 (numbering 1.8 million). […]