Roku, and TVPlayer have announced the availability of TVPlayer on Roku streaming players in the UK, making live TV accessible from all major broadcasters for the first time to Roku users. TVPlayer includes content from major broadcasters, such as BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Dave among others and can be added from the […]
Discovery Networks Latin America/US Hispanic, a division of Discovery Communications, and BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm and main subsidiary of the BBC) have announced a first look deal for the factual, lifestyle, natural history and motor programming categories, through which Discovery’s networks will become the home to many of the BBC’s most popular titles. As […]
Just Eat, the online takeaway food service, has agreed a £10 million-a-year deal (€11.9m) to be the new sponsor of The X Factor and intends to launch a nationwide “Chef Factor” hunt for takeaway cooks to star in its branded clips. Just Eat’s multiyear deal is one of the largest ever for a weekly show […]
Philippine multi-play operator PLDT is introducing the next generation of its TVolution streaming box for its customers. PLDT worked with streaming pioneer Roku to deliver to its customers a fully-proven solution that is easy to use and loaded with “great” content. “Filipinos will be the first in Asia to stream the best in entertainment using […]
QYOU Media, a curator of ‘best-of-the-web’ video for multiscreen distribution, has announced a linear channel distribution agreement with United Group to deliver its curated content to customers in Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. The deal marks the QYOU’s first entry into this region and signifies further expansion for the company in Europe. Suzana […]
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the sale of a multimedia player which enables films that are available illegally on the Internet to be viewed easily and for free on a television screen could constitute an infringement of copyright, suggesting that the temporary reproduction on a multimedia player of a […]
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has declared that teeing up the ATSC 3.0 transmission standard is a priority, suggesting it has the potential to let broadcasters offer much better service in a variety of ways. Addressing the NAB Show in Las Vegas, Pai noted that the convergence of Media, Entertainment, and Technology—the M.E.T. Effect—had created a […]
NOW TV, Sky’s online streaming service, is now available in Ireland. NOW TV, which launched UK in 2012, is designed to suit the varying ways people watch TV today, offering contract-free content on demand. Viewers can choose from a range of passes including: – The Entertainment Month Pass which unlocks hit shows such as Game […]
Though digital piracy has experienced a slight decrease in Spain in terms of absolute figures, the percentage of citizens accessing pirate content has remained the same or even increased for some sectors such as music and leisure books (e-readers). In 2016, there were 4.128 billion illegal accesses to content, 4.2 per cent less that in […]
UK advertising expenditure grew 3.7 per cent to reach £21.4 billion (€25.2bn) in 2016, the seventh consecutive year of market growth, according to the Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report. Growth in UK adspend held steady in Q3 after the June referendum, before reaching £5.8 billion in Q4 2016, a rise of 3.9 per cent year-on-year and the […]