Ninety-two per cent of all adult viewing in the US is done on a TV screen, according the Nielsen. Its fourth-quarter Comparable Metrics Report says adults spent 509 billion minutes viewing on TVs in the quarter and another 63.6 billion viewing on TV-connected devices. Viewing on
Other than a few cinemas in India, and pockets of specialist 35mm projection, the world’s cinemas are now totally digital. A report from IHS Technology says that more than 155,000 screens around the world are now available to distributors. The shift to digital projection started in 2005 with the establishing of the Digital Cinema Initiatives […]
Samba TV, a provider of real-time audience based advertising and insights, and video ad serving platform SpotX, have partnered to power custom audience targeting and segmentation for video ads across web, app and connected TV environments. SpotX will become Samba TV’s primary connected TV ad server, enabling brands and advertisers to buy across its connected […]
Amazon has agreed a deal to bring Steven Soderbergh’s newest film to Prime Video customers during its exclusive first-run streaming window. Logan Lucky will hit cinemas on August 18th and is expected to be released on Prime Video during the first quarter of 2018. Additionally, Amazon has signed an exclusive two-year first-look deal with Fingerprint […]
Sunset+Vine, the UK-based TV sports production and media company which is part of the Tinopolis Group, will produce BT Sport’s coverage of the America’s Cup. Starting May 26th, BT Sport will be showing 22 days of coverage from Bermuda exclusively live in the UK. Sunset+Vine will have a team of 30 working on the production […]
Tata Communications, the official connectivity provider to Formula 1 and the Official managed connectivity supplier of Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, is today launching the 2017 F1 Connectivity Innovation Prize and unveiling the first challenge of this year’s competition – with a focus on the Internet of Things (IoT). The first challenge, set by Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, […]
iWedia, a provider of software solutions for TV devices, has upgraded its Teatro CI Host Software towards CI Plus 1.4 compliance. The announcement was made to coincide with the opening of ANGA COM 2017, which is being held in Cologne from Tuesday, May 30th through to Thursday, June 1st and where iWedia exhibits (Koelnmesse, hall […]
The Board of Directors of IBAS – International Broadcasting Advanced Solutions – unanimously approved the entry of the Giglio Group to the consortium through the M-Three Satcom division. IBAS brings together highly eminent Italian enterprises engaged in the advanced technologies, telecommunications and broadcast fields, for the creation of teams to research new technologies and applications, […]
Global teleport STN has further expanded its service capabilities using PlayBox Technology Europe’s (PBTEU) EXEcutor Broadcast Servers powered by Playbox Technology NEO software. STN’s CTO Tomasz Lovsin says, “Today’s channel-in-a-box solutions are as sophisticated as ever and offer a play-out facility with a myriad of elegant and simple solutions that ultimately serve the channel and […]
A significant number of Britons are using either Virtual Personal Networks (VPN) or proxy servers, research from YouGov reveals. The Incognito Individual report explores the different ways people go undetected online. It shows that 16 per cent of British adults have used either a VPN or proxy server, with the main motivation for doing so […]