Netflix accounts for 63 per cent of the SVoD viewing time in France, well ahead of rivals Canalplay (19 per cent), Amazon and SFR Play (6 per cent each), as well as kid’s SVoD platform Gulli max (3 per cent). Netflix is also home to seven of the 10 most viewed titles, with Narcos, 13 Reasons […]
Millions of Liberty Global customers in Europe are to benefit from a new app that will allow them to check their mobile usage, monitor devices connected to their home WiFi network and automatically connect to 10 million WiFi hotspots. The Connect App, which is available at no extra cost and has already been made available […]
YouTube has confirmed it will stop offering paid channels, which were launched in 2013 as one of the video portal’s first attempts at charging for content. The service let people pay a monthly fee to access individual YouTube channels from providers such as National Geographic and Sesame Street. However, the service was not popular with […]
Intelsat has just signed a capacity deal with its Epic satellite to supply bandwidth to the UAE’s Etisalat telco. A report from equity analysts at investment bank Jefferies, says the agreement is “on the face of it neither unexpected, nor material in nature, nor likely to bother consensus. But it nonetheless goes to the heart […]
The Media & Entertainment industry in Italy will be worth €38.1 billion in 2021, up from €31.5 billion in 2016, accounting for a CAGR of 3.9 per cent. According to the “Entertainment & Media Outlook in Italy 2017-2021” report from PwC, user spending will grow from €23.5 billion in 2016 to €28.9 billion in 2021 […]
ATP and ATP Media has announced that Amazon Prime Video is now an official streaming partner of the ATP World Tour. The new deal covers the worldwide distribution of the Next Gen ATP Finals through Amazon Prime Video. Starting this year, Amazon will have worldwide OTT rights (excluding China), and the full exclusive rights in […]
A broad recalibration in Asia Pacific pay-TV, triggered by the growth of broadband, has begun, according to Asia Pacific Pay-TV Distribution, a new report covering 17 markets in the region prepared by independent consulting and research provider Media Partners Asia (MPA). Pay-TV industry stakeholders are adjusting to competitive realities with technology upgrades that integrate online […]
Recent innovations on intellectual property rights enforcement strategies were the focus of the first Europol Intellectual Property Crime Conference organised in Antwerp. Some 400 senior law enforcement official, security and industry experts from 42 countries attended the conference, co-organised by Europol, the Belgian Customs Authority, UL (Underwriters Laboratories) and the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC). Participants reviewed […]
Las week, SES said it had ordered 7 new satellites from Boeing. The new mini-fleet will initially be launched starting in 2021. It has emerged that the massive order is valued at around $750 million, and when ground-based infrastructure is added in will take the total investment to more than $1 billion. The new satellites […]
Google has agreed to take over staff and assets of smartphone maker HTC for $1.1 billion. Google said the takeover will strengthen its hardware business, including the Pixel smartphones on which HTC already cooperates. HTC will continue to make smartphones and VR devices under its own brand. Google also receives a non-exclusive licence to HTC’s […]