Verizon Digital Media Services and Levels Beyond announced today a strategic partnership to go to market with a combined solution that consolidates and streamlines the workflows of broadcasters and OTT providers. The Reach Engine from Levels Beyond will power the MX: Orchestration feature within the Verizon Media Xperience Studio from Verizon Digital Media Services. The […]
The Future Group (Oslo, Norway), the pioneering developer of Interactive Mixed Reality (IMR) content and tools today announced a licensing agreement with Epic Games (Cary, NC), the undisputed leader in high-performance game engine technology, based on Epic’s Unreal Engine 4. The Future Group has built unique enhancements specific to broadcast TV on top of Unreal Engine, including source […]
Just shy of five million people in the UK use pirated TV streaming services, according to YouGov. The research firm’s new study, Illegal Streaming, suggests that 10 per cent of the population (around 4.9 million adults) currently have access to platforms such as ‘illegal’ Kodi boxes (i.e., those with software that has been changed with […]
Nearly one-third of OTT free trials convert to a paid subscription, according to connected entertainment research from Parks Associates. Senior Analyst Glenn Hower will discuss at NAB the firm’s OTT Video Market Tracker, including findings on the use of free trials among OTT services. Services such as Hulu and Netflix often offer a period of […]
Netflix has announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other considerations, €1 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes through an offering outside the United States to non-US persons pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the […]
CTAM and Hub Entertainment Research have released results of a recent tracking study on TV Everywhere (TVE) viewing, based on reported consumer data collected continuously across a six-month span, August 2016 to January 2017. This new approach removes the volatility that occurs when taking an annual snapshot at a single moment in time, says the […]
Signalling an accelerating shift in the digital video market consumer behaviour, the percentage of consumers who prefer watching TV shows on television sets plummeted by 55 per cent over the past year, from 52 per cent to 23 per cent, according to findings from the Accenture 2017 Digital Consumer Survey. The global online survey of […]
Though they share one thing – the lack of a traditional paid cable or satellite TV subscription – Cord Cutters and Cord Nevers in the US differ in a host of ways, including their tastes in streaming video platforms and shows, according to findings from GfK MRI’s Cord Evolution studies The research firm suggests that
The European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, is getting back to work. The industrial action which had caused a near-complete month-long closedown of the region ended on April 21 when the French government and strike leaders signed an ‘Accord de Guyane’ agreement. Officials at the spaceport, and from where Arianespace launch their rockets and satellites, […]
Apple has reportedly hired a pair of highly experienced satellite experts. Bloomberg Business News says the pair are John Fenwick, who led Google’s spacecraft operations, and Michael Trela, who headed up satellite engineering at Google. The two now report to Greg Duffy, co-founder of the camera company Dropcam, another former Googler, according to the Bloomberg […]