Netflix has released July data from its ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best primetime Netflix streaming experience. Speeds at Telefónica -Movistar in Spain and Spectranet in India continued climbing in July. Telefónica -Movistar gained 0.65 Megabits per second (Mbps) in July, the biggest increase on […]
Roger Lynch, CEO at Charlie Ergen/DISH Network-backed Sling TV, is leaving the broadcaster to take up the President/CEO position at music streaming site Pandora. Lynch has been one of Ergen’s key executives and in July 2012 founding-CEO at OTT service Sling TV. He had worked with Ergen at DISHNetwork and EchoStar. He also spent time […]
The global set-top box market is anticipated to witness a robust growth during the assessment period 2017 – 2027. A Future Market Insights report studies the factors driving the adoption of STBs across the globe. According to Future Market Insights’ analysis, the APEJ (Asia/Pacific Excluding Japan) STB market is expected to witness a relatively high […]
Reports out of Israel say that the acting chairman of telco Bezeq, David Granot, has been detained for questioning by Israel’s Police National Fraud Unit over alleged bribery and money laundering. The problems are additional to those already underway which include investigations by the local Securities regulator, and in particular into Bezeq’s controlling shareholder Shaul […]
Denmark is an important European market, but – along with its Scandinavian neighbours – tends to be overlooked. Now, equity analysts at investment bank Exane-BNP/Paribas have taken a close look as part of its STAMP (Survey of Telecom & Media Preferences) examination of the country, and in particular viewing habits and preferences. And the news […]
Sydney based start-up Veredictum has launched the token sale for its decentralised anti-piracy and distribution platform for the film and video industry. The Ventana token sale aims to achieve widespread acceptance within the film and video industry using blockchain-based technologies to register video and film ownership rights, and to add detectable fingerprints to content so […]
Viacom has confirmed that its MTV Germany channel will go FTA in Germany and Austria from January 2018. Since March this year, MTV has been available for fre via a live stream online. Viacom also recently launched a new version of the ‘MTV Play’ app for iOS and Android, which gives viewers on mobile devices […]
Premium streaming service Hulu has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its cloud provider, and leveraged AWS to launch its new, over-the-top (OTT) live TV service. Hulu turned to AWS for a scalable, agile, and cost-effective infrastructure to support the addition of more than 50 live channels for the Hulu with Live TV launch in […]
Zoomin.TV and Tencent have signed a partnership giving Zoomin.TV access to over 1.5 billion Chinese viewers. Zoomin.TV launched its official WeChat and the meaningful stories from Zoomin.TV are now available to the 936 million monthly active users on WeChat Official Account, 632 million on Qzone and 460 million on Kuaibao Platform. “Zoomin.TV is the Gen […]
Vubiquity, a global provider of premium content services, has signed a deal with Oi in Brazil that will provide customers with exclusive access to on-demand video content. The deal allows customers to access Oi Play content which is already available to the Oi TV customer base (1.4 million) and has now also launched for customers […]