Facebook has a unique definition of video: If it moves, it’s video, from a GIF to a slideshow to conventional video. This unconventional definition, combined with short attention, may point to ways of using Facebook video quite unlike television, says GroupM in its latest State of Video report. Rather than compete to make shorter films, […]
HBO Go has launched HBO Go, its standalone SVoD service, in four new European countries: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary. The launches mean that viewers in the central European countries will be able to watch current popular shows including Game of Thrones, Westworld, Veep and Silicon Valley as well as locally-sourced titles uncluding Shadows, Silent […]
An international joint operation against online piracy criminal groups supported by Eurojust – the EU’s Judicial Cooperation Unit which supports judicial coordination and cooperation between national authorities – has resulted in two arrests, one of which was based on a European Arrest Warrant, 73 searches and the seizure of several websites, servers, computers and electronic […]
Video piracy – the copying and selling copyrighted content – has been around since the advent of the VHS tape and home video recording in 1979, notes market intelligence firm ABI Research. Today, video piracy has shifted from pirated set-top boxes to content redistribution over broadband networks. The most common forms of piracy today include […]
Pay-TV continues to grow in Spain. A report from PwC predicts that pay TV will reach 7.1 million subscribers in four year’s time, a penetration rate of 46.6 per cent. Currently, it has just over 6 million subscribers with a market penetration of 40.2 per cent. Pay-TV revenues will also grow by 4 per cent […]
GroupM’s latest State of the Video report also reveals that while total video viewing across all formats and devices has likely grown, traditional TV viewing in the US and UK by Millennials has fallen about 4.5 per centannually since 2012, and nearer 9 per cent for Generation Z. That’s not news. What is news is […]
German free-to-air broadcasting group ProSiebenSat.1 has issued its third profits warning of the year, and the market has all but abandoned the company’s stock. A note to investors from investment bank Berenberg says that management changes could be the consequence. Just two years ago (on November 20th 2015) Pro7/Sat1 share price topped €50. The decline […]
TiVo’s Board of Directors has unanimously elected Enrique Rodriguez to the position of president and CEO effective immediately. Rodriguez also joins the company’s Board of Directors. “Enrique is an exceptional leader and strategist who has the energy and passion that will position TiVo for success,” said Jim Meyer, chairman of the Board of Directors, TiVo. […]
The Basque Country cable operator Euskaltel has signed an agreement with the streaming giant Netflix to make its content available to all its subscribers, as well as those who subscribe to R in Galicia and Telecable in Asturias, through its 4K STB. Euskaltel will be the first TV operator in Spain to offer a Netflix […]
Italian DTH platform Tivùsat has added a new entertainment TV channel for kids. POP is produced by Sony Pictures Television Network and is available on channel position 45. The new channel offers a varied mix of entertainment and action programmes focusing on premieres of animated series such as Power Rangers Ninja Steel, Transformers Rescue Bots, […]