Online talent management firm Fullscreen is closing its subscription video platform which launched just last year. The service rolled out vowing to produce “higher quality” programmes featuring popular YouTube and social media stars. In a blog post, Fullscreen founder George Strompolos said: “When we set out to launch our own SVoD service, we knew it […]
Social video creation platform Wochit has announced the launch of Wochit Plus, a new collection of timely, relevant and unique videos, with social media intelligence and news agency Storyful as the first official Plus partner. The new offering, available to Wochit users as an add-on, enhances the company’s vast library of rights-cleared assets from sources […]
The 20th anniversary of Africa’s largest tech-focused event may have come and gone, but beyond the record-breaking number of visitors, exhibitors and speakers and new launches and cutting-edge products this year, the outcomes make for a lasting impression. AfricaCom was once focused solely on the telecommunications market, but now that conversation has successfully shifted to […]
Elisa, Finland’s largest telecoms operator, has partnered with Unified Streaming, a player in cross-platform video-streaming technologies, to deploy late transmuxing. This on-the-fly conversion of video files directly on cache nodes rather than on centralized servers reduces internal streaming traffic and overall storage needs. With webserver plug-in Unified Origin integrated into the workflow, Elisa has essentially pushed streaming to the […]
The launch of the third season of “Gomorrah – The Series” premiered in 325 Italian cinemas on November 14th and 15th with Vision Distribution, an operation never seen before in Italy for a TV show. “Gomorrah – The Series”, which brought the first episodes of the third season of the Sky original series produced by […]
A research study conducted by OTT viewing experience analytics specialist Conviva and independent research and strategy consultancy MTM exploring OTT operational best practices across leading publishers in EMEA and North America has identified a range of practices that could improve the quality of streaming video across the industry, potentially accelerating the overall growth of OTT […]
The BBC’s commercial division is looking at stumping up £500 million (€560m) to take full control of its UKTV joint-venture with Scripps Networks Interactive, according to a report in The Daily Telegraph citing industry insiders. BBC Worldwide would be the acquirer, and the newspaper says the BBC would seek funding from private investors. The move comes about […]
Digital UK, the body responsible for supporting DTT in the UK, has published a study, The defragmentation dividend – A more efficient use of the UHF band, which outlines options to deliver a major boost in spectrum capacity for mobile broadband services. The study, by telecoms specialist Aetha Consulting, explores the scope for a fundamental […]
Amazon has axed plans to launch an online streaming service bundling US broadcast and cable networks because it believes it cannot make enough money on such a service, according to a Reuters report. The online retail giant has also been unable to convince key broadcast and basic cable networks to join its a la carte […]
After a decade of change in advertising with the emergence of many new forms of advertising competing for investment, a study has for the first time quantified the total profit generated by different forms of advertising to show what they actually deliver to the bottom line. The study – Profit Ability: the business case for […]