Geo-location piracy prevention specialist GeoGuard and behavioural location intelligence company Skyhook are collaborating to provide the content industry with what they describe as the first solution that ensures viewers are verifiably watching films and TV at home. The solution combines precise location data from Skyhook with geo-piracy defences from GeoGuard. The collaboration is a continuation […]
Content from The Associated Press drove higher total engagement on Facebook than any of the Top 10 individual publishers in June and July, according to a new survey from content analytics platform NewsWhip. The results reveal the hidden power of news agency content in a market focused on digital native publishing and platforms. In July, […]
Smart content and device company TiTANplatform Corporation has engaged Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC (DCF) to provide investment banking services and Deloitte & Touche LLP to provide accounting services. TiTANplatform and DCF will work in conjunction with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, a leading US law firm, to complete a new $100 million capital raise on top […]
The TV App Agency (TVAA), the software developers for TV applications on multiple platforms, has designed the front-end applications that are delivering the powerful user experience for the Zee Entertainment Middle East Z5 Weyyak AVoD service. Z5 Weyyak is the first digital foray into the Arabic territory for Zee Entertainment, which has swiftly established a […]
OTT and TV Everywhere enabler Xstream has launched a new customer engagement tool designed to enable video providers to boost subscriber acquisition, speed up conversion into paying customers and to lengthen customer retention times. “Customer engagement is now at the heart of the video on-demand industry and this tool is another example of how Xstream […]
Limelight Networks, a global player in digital content delivery, has announced that WorkCast is using the Limelight Orchestrate Platform to deliver its cloud-based webinar, webcasting and online events to more than 250 organisations worldwide. To meet the increasing demand for live streamed events and expectation for high-quality viewing, WorkCast required a more modern, scalable and […]
The Royal Television Society (RTS) has unveiled the line-up for the RTS Cambridge Convention 2017: A World of Opportunity. The biennial event, which takes place in Cambridge from 13 – 15 September, will see the industry’s most senior figures converge to discuss how, in a year in which the UK will start to forge its […]
Analysts at investment bank Piper Jaffray have suggested that the end of a distribution deal between Netflix and Disney will not hurt the streaming giant as much as some investors and observers predict. The bank’s survey of more than 500 current US users of Netflix found that only some 20 per cent spend more than […]
Nielsen is set to begin crediting video content distributed on Facebook, Hulu and YouTube in Digital Content Ratings. Through this capability, participating TV and digital publisher clients can now capture incremental viewing of their content within their reported audience numbers. With Nielsen including viewership of distributed content on three of the industry’s largest digital platforms […]
Indian police have arrested four people suspected of leaking an episode HBO’s Game of Thrones before it had aired. Three of the accused are current employees of Prime Focus Technology – a Mumbai-based company that stores and processes the series for Indian streaming website Hotstar. The fourth individual is a former employee. Episode four of […]