OTT video services provider Easel TV has recently added SVoD with membership on Curzon’s Home Cinema service. Easel TV has combined the use of TVoD and SVoD, as well as linking SVoD with cinema membership, giving Curzon multiple ways to market and monetise its Home Cinema service. The service – CURZON12 – is curated and […]
Samsung Electronics America has announced an exclusive US marketing and retail partnership with Xbox to utilise Samsung’s lineup of QLED TVs as the official 4K TV partner for the Xbox One X. The partnership kicked off at E3 2017 in June as attendees experienced, for the first time ever, true 4K HDR gaming on Xbox […]
Nordic major SF Studios, with head offices in Stockholm and subsidiaries in Copenhagen, Oslo and Helsinki, has opened an international production office in London. Kate Myers will, in the role as VP Development UK and International Production, head SF Studios’ international film development out of the London office. Myers, who most recently served as co-founder […]
Alexander Müller-Gastell has been appointed the new CEO of ND SatCom, effective September 1st. This strategic move is in line with the shareholder vision to further grow the market share of ND SatCom since its acquisition from AIRBUS in 2015. ND SatCom’s advanced technology of reliable meshed VSAT networks form the basis for commercial and […]
Snell Advanced Media has announced the latest release of its FormatFusion software. This latest version, FormatFusion4, adds HDR capabilities to its Kahuna production switcher range. The FormatFusion engine is at the heart of the Kahuna switcher and is the key to its class leading multi-format capabilities. SAM’s Kahuna with FormatFusion4 technology was a key part […]
A new free-to-air TV channel, FreeSports, has launched in the UK showing up to 10 live football games every week. The channel, operated by the team behind Premier Sports, becomes the only FTA sports channel available on Freeview, TalkTalk and BT. Sky and FreeSat are also carrying the channel, but not Virgin Media. The channel […]
According to a study from Morning Consult, 37 per cent of US Internet users shared their password for at least one streaming service account – usually Netflix – in August 2017. The study found that
Judge Haywood Gilliam has “paused” a trial taking place in California between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and pay-TV operator DirecTV. The FTC is claiming that DirecTV made unjust gains in its subscriber promotions and alleged false advertising, and that some 33 million subscribers signed up for DirecTV services without being clearly aware of the […]
IAB Australia’s Video Council – the trade association for online advertising in Australia – has released the country’s first white paper on Connected TV (CTV) which reveals that CTV now accounts for up to 35 per cent of Australian broadcaster’s online video supply. The study, Connected TV: The New Era of Television, examines why, despite […]
Leading up to the third quarter of this year, 200,000 Swedish households say they intend to sign up for an HBO Nordic subscription. The record high interest coincided with the premiere of the seventh season of Game of Thrones. This season is the most popular yet with an average of roughly 31 million viewers per […]