ABOX42, a supplier of OTT, IPTV and hybrid DVB set-top-boxes, will demonstrate the company’s new dotIO Smart Home Platform for pay-TV, internet and mobile operators at ANGA COM 2017 at booth 8/R9. ABOX42 dotIO opens up new business models and revenue streams for operators by providing them with a complete, fully managed turnkey solution for distributing […]
EuroMedia ANGA COM 2017 Special EuroMedia’s ANGA COM 2017 show special, featuring the latest news and analysis from the cable, broadband and satellite sectors. Read the issue here
Martin Olson, an analyst with investment bank Piper Jaffray, has suggested that Wall Street is underestimating the success Netflix will have overseas, with predictions of international margin and penetration levels overly conservative, and that, by 2020, there is potential for market penetration higher than current estimates. In a note to clients,
Smartphones are now in 80 per cent of US homes – a six percentage point increase year-over-year (YOY) – and US consumers now own 27 million more smartphones than they did just last year, according to research from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). Furthermore, CTA’s research analysis shows 16 per cent of US households now […]
MTG has launched Viareal, a virtual reality (VR) app that offers viewers in the Nordic region immersive and interactive experiences. In addition to global sports showpieces such as the UEFA Champions League final (on June 3rd), Viareal will deliver exclusive VR content and extensions for esports events, and for MTG’s broadcast and streamed entertainment offerings. […]
Viacom and multi-play operator Altice USA have agreed a multi-year partnership that includes advanced advertising and content distribution agreements. The pair will create what they describe as an “unprecedented, industry-leading partnership” that combines Altice USA’s audience data, multi-screen advertising platforms, measurement and analytics capabilities with Viacom’s advanced advertising offerings to deliver local and national advertising […]
Naspers’ pay-TV operation DStv’s ad sales unit DStv Media Sales has admitted to price fixing and the fixing of trading conditions in contravention of South Africa’s Competition Act. The matter relates to a November 2011 investigation which found that, through the Media Credit Co-Ordinators (MCC), various media companies agreed to offer similar discounts and payment […]
On May 19th Hong Kong-based satellite operator ABS announced that it had signed a “strategic partnership” with “one of the largest telecommunications operators in SE Asia” to supply 500 MHz of capacity on its ABS-2 craft at 75 degrees East. So far, so routine. Except within the announcement was the phrase that the new partner […]
Ninety-two per cent of all adult viewing in the US is done on a TV screen, according the Nielsen. Its fourth-quarter Comparable Metrics Report says adults spent 509 billion minutes viewing on TVs in the quarter and another 63.6 billion viewing on TV-connected devices. Viewing on
Other than a few cinemas in India, and pockets of specialist 35mm projection, the world’s cinemas are now totally digital. A report from IHS Technology says that more than 155,000 screens around the world are now available to distributors. The shift to digital projection started in 2005 with the establishing of the Digital Cinema Initiatives […]