Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee’s Despacito, from Universal Music Latin Entertainment, has officially become the most streamed track of all time, just six months after its release. The song and accompanying remix featuring Justin Bieber, now have combined global streams in excess of 4.6 billion plays across leading streaming platforms. With Despacito, Bieber surpasses his […]
Tru Optik, the audience measurement and data management platform compatible with Connected TVs, has announced a global partnership with Lotame, the independent data management platform (DMP) and data exchange. Through the partnership, advertisers and publishers can access Lotame’s global, first-party data and audience segments to create targeted OTT and Connected TV campaigns around the world […]
BBC Worldwide has agreed a deal that sees a BBC Earth branded block in South Korea. The block is now available on Korean cable channel KMH’s newly launched documentary channel, DocuOne. It launched together with DocuOne on July 18th, and will be available for six hours a day, in two hour prime time slots, as […]
Mediamorph has been selected to automate contract management and programmer fee calculations while delivering enhanced flexibility and control of packaging models by Canadian telco TELUS – which has 12.7 million subscriber connections. Mediamorph’s advanced solutions will be used to more efficiently manage contract rights, support the functionality to offer enhanced technology, and improve the timing […]
Netflix saw its share price rocket 11 per cent on July 17th to an all-time high of $179 (€155) at one point, helped by impressive subscriber numbers. Netflix told the market that it had brought in a Q2 record of 5.2 million net new subscribers globally, up from 99 million at the end of Q1 […]
Clive Selley, Openreach CEO, has said 10 million UK premises could access fibre by the mid-2020s. Selley has shifted the company towards FTTP since taking over last year, made the comments as he launched a consultation with its service provider customers. The company said it wanted to identify whether there is “widespread demand” for a […]
The BBC served 24.1 million stream requests during Wimbledon this year via BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer, making it the most-streamed Wimbledon to date. The most popular match was Rafa Nadal and Gilles Muller’s 66-game epic with 1.4 million requests. With more people streaming this year’s tournament than ever before, BBC Sport also saw record […]
Movie and TV series streaming service Wuaki, owned by the Japanese company Rakuten, has been rebranded as Rakuten TV coinciding with the start of a four-year sponsorship deal with the Barcelona football team. Rakuten.tv currently has around five million registered users across 12 countries, of which approximately 40 per cent are in Spain. Ratuken has […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel has issued an apology after what it described as “technical issues” caused its online and on demand services to crash during the much-awaited Season 7 Game of Thrones premiere. Amid much negative social media chatter, Foxtel issued the following statement, which suggested that the technical problems were more widespread than just […]
Premium online video services have started to gain traction in Asia Pacific but have a long way to go before achieving mass adoption, according to a new report from independent consulting and research provider Media Partners Asia (MPA). MPA, in partnership with consumer research specialist BDRC Continental, has surveyed more than 15,000 Internet users across […]