Italian pay-TV has grown by 2.7 per cent in 2017, become the main source of revenue (40 per cent of the total) for the country’s TV sector, surpassing advertising. This is the main conclusion of a report from Rome-based consultancy ITMedia Consulting called the “Television Market in Italy 2017-2019”. The report indicates that the TV […]
eMarketer’s latest forecast of programmatic ad spending indicates that, despite recent negative press, the UK remains a market leader in programmatic, and strong growth will continue over the next few years. By the end of 2017, advertisers are expected to spend an estimated £3.39 billion on programmatic trading, up 23.5 per cent from the prior […]
Dataxis research sheds light on the importance that DVB‐T2, the extension of the television standard DVB‐T, will acquire in the upcoming years. This system was devised to enable a better signal compression to broadcast digital television. It became the widespread standard of all recent DTT deployment and is currently being rolled out to replace DVB‐T […]
Following its exclusive content deal with US premium broadcaster HBO signed in March, Orange’s premium bouquet OCS has added further content to its HBO-branded portal on VoD service OCS Go. The Tout l’univers HBO section makes thousands of hours of HBO movies and TV series available on a permanent basis. Titles include cult series such as The […]
US agencies the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission have announced their intent to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under which the pair would coordinate online consumer protection efforts following the adoption of the Restoring Internet Freedom Order. “The Memorandum of Understanding will be a critical benefit for online consumers because it […]
Portugal ended the third quarter of 2017 with 3.8 million pay-TV subscribers, representing an increase of 33,000 on the previous quarter and of 116,000 year-on-year (+3.2 per cent). Data from the National Communications Authority (Anacom) shows that the growth was mostly due to fibre technology (FTTH/B), whose number of subscribers grew 27.3 per cent on […]
UK commercial broadcaster Channel 5 is dropping its My5 channel and replacing it with 5PRIME. The new linear channel will launch on January 16th. My5 will continue to exist online as a catch-up VoD service. 5PRIME will feature a mix of first run original series alongside the best content from Channel 5 and spin offs […]
Netflix has defended a tweet that referred specifically to 53 people who had watched its new Christmas film every day for 18 days. “Who hurt you?” read the tweet, addressed to them. Some viewers protested calling the tweet “creepy” for the platform to keep such close tabs on its audience, and mock them. Netflix said […]
The UK government has appointed Althea Efunshile, the former deputy chief of Arts Council England, to the board of Channel 4, in a U-turn after the culture secretary had blocked her appointment a year ago. Efunshile was the only one of five candidates for Channel 4’s board to be rejected by Karen Bradley, the culture […]
Hot on the heels of the news that OneWeb has struck a deal with Boeing to launch another constellation of almost 3000 satellites, and in addition to the launch of an already planned 640 satellites in its existing mega-constellation, comes news that Japan’s SoftBank is to invest an extra $500 million in OneWeb. OneWeb is […]