UK comms regulator Ofcom has announced the outcome of the principal stage of its auction to release airwaves for 4G mobile and future 5G services. It has been running an auction of spectrum in two frequency bands: 2.3 GHz, which is usable by current mobile phones and will help improve 4G capacity for today’s mobile […]
The UK’s Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (BARB) has revealed the next stage of Project Dovetail, which has the objective of delivering total reach of programme and commercial audiences across multiple screens. The rise of online delivery of programmes and commercials has been a catalyst for Project Dovetail. Dealing with audience fragmentation has been an aspect […]
A research paper – Netflix: A Clash of Heart vs. Mind – from analysts at MoffettNathanson (MN) dissects the current value of Netflix and states that the MN team is finding Netflix the single most frustrating stock to cover. “We have continually failed to remember what makes great growth stocks and instead have ‘wasted’ our time analysing […]
4K take-up is gaining momentum in Spain with 10 per cent of homes now UHD-ready homes, and with 4K TV sales surpassing SD/HD this year. Additionally, an SES report by Kantar TNS predicts of 25 per cent of households will be equipped with UHD by 2020. But SES Astra has reported legal and competition constraints […]
US audiences may be moving away from traditional cable, satellite and IPTV packages but the trend is being tempered by the emergence of ‘pay-TV polygamists’ – households taking more than one subscription as they add OTT services – according to research contained in a report, Show the Love with Customer Experience, from subscription, billing and […]
The Asia Pacific pay-TV sector is bucking the downward trends in much of the rest of the world. Subscribers will grow by 78 million and revenues by $2.73 billion between 2017 and 2023, according to the Asia Pacific Pay TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. “China and India together will account for 81 per […]
The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of broadcast and broadband services through connected TVs and set-top boxes, has confirmed that the HbbTV Testing Group has published a new version of the HbbTV conformance test suite. From this release onward, there will be three releases each year, […]
US cable MSOs Charter Communications, Comcast Corporation and Cox Communications, owners of multiscreen media sales company NCC Media, are creating a new division within NCC to design, deploy and sell unified advertising solutions across NCC’s participants’ national footprint. The group will use non-personally identifiable data and targeting capabilities to create advanced video advertising products that […]
Nielsen has announced the availability of Nielsen Grabix, its next-generation analytics platform that combines the power of minute-by-minute Nielsen ratings and Gracenote Real-Time Smart TV viewership data for deeper insights into audience flow, retention and engagement. The new Web-based intelligence platform gives TV programmers and advertisers instant visibility into viewership trends for the top 56 […]
eSports specialist Gfinity is continuing its relationship with Formula 1 as the premier motor sport category gears up to start season two of its F1 eSports series. As part of the arrangement, Gfinity will manage tournament operations for the live events including the adjudication framework which supports all competitive gameplay and broadcast all the live […]