The new season of the 2nd division Bundesliga (“2. Bundesliga”) kicks off this weekend. Thanks to a deal with Sky, customers of UPC in Switzerland and the 15 distribution partners can watch all 306 matches in the 2. Bundesliga and, from August 18th, 266 Bundesliga matches, including multi-game broadcasts, pre-match reports and analyses. MySports can […]
LiveScale, a technology start-up based in Montreal and Paris, is introducing Livescale.tv, the first Social and VR live streaming platform. LiveScale is a next-generation live video platform, allowing content creators, broadcasters, medias, brands and businesses to reach fragmented audiences, on all their medias properties (web, mobile, social networks) at once. In less than 2 minutes, content […]
UK pay-TV giant Sky has reported a “strong year” and a 10 per cent increase in this year’s revenues, to £12.9 billion (€14.44bn), with Q4 operating profit up 8 per cent to £455 million. Sky says that it has won 686,000 new customers (including Germany and Italy) and takes its subscriber total to 22.5 million, […]
Confirming reports first revealed by advanced-television.com in August 2016 and May 2017, Sky has announced that it plans to launch an OTT service in Spain. Commenting on the company’s Full Year Results, Jeremy Darroch, Group Chief Executive, said it would continue to identify opportunities to reach new customers and intended to launch a “simple and affordable OTT service in […]
Charter Communications has reported lower Q2 earnings and continued pay-TV subscriber losses. The group led by chairman and CEO Tom Rutledge, lost 90,000 net residential pay-TV subscribers in the second quarter, compared with a loss of 152,000 in the year-ago period. For the first quarter of the year, the company had recorded a 100,000 drop. […]
UK advertising expenditure grew 1.3 per cent year-on-year in Q1 2017 to reach £5.318 billion (€5.954bn) – the 15th consecutive quarter of growth, according to Advertising Association/Warc Expenditure Report data. Overall market growth was despite a drop of -6.2 per cent in television advertising, its steepest fall since 2009. However, TV ad expenditure is forecast to […]
Intelsat has revealed its Q2 numbers with CEO Stephen Spengler saying that there were continued pricing pressures as services renew for certain wide-beam network services applications, creating a headwind to year over year growth. There had also been some non-renewals of capacity contracts. These pressures led to a fall in Intelsat’s contracted backlog, from $8.5 […]
Twitter did not add any new users in the second quarter. The social media service reported earnings claiming 328 million total users — the same number it reported after Q1. Analysts had been hoping the company added around 4 million new users. Twitter did however beat revenue expectations, bringing in revenue of $574 million. Twitter’s […]
As well as revealing its Full Year numbers, Sky has announced that it has joined forces with Devialet, an innovator in audio technologies, to create Sky Soundbox, a new all-in-one sound system designed to take the TV viewing experience to the next level. From one single compact speaker unit, Sky says its Soundbox will “deliver powerful […]
Mediaset Spain, owner of the Tele 5 and Cuatrochannels among others, has reported a H1 net profit of €125.7 million to June 30th, up 7 per cent on the same period last year. EBITDA amounted to €168 million, up 5 per cent. TV ad revenues remained flat at €491.1 million, the same amount for the […]