Hopster, the preschool learning and entertainment experience, has launched on Sling TV, making the award-winning preschool service available to millions of Sling TV subscribers in the US. The UK-based BAFTA-nominated service offers preschoolers and their families educational entertainment through a mix of media including kids TV shows, music and video books. For a fee of […]
Comcast’s Xfinity TV customers can now sync their accounts with digital content ownership ecosystem Movies Anywhere and seamlessly combine eligible movie purchases from the Xfinity Digital Store with those from other Movies Anywhere digital retailers and access them on Xfinity X1, the Xfinity Stream app and other Xfinity TV platforms. Comcast is the first pay-TV […]
Research Now SSI, a global leader in first-party data and data services, has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement and attribution analytics company, to help brands better understand advertising efficacy with unparalleled scale and accuracy. The combination of iSpot’s extensive experience and scale in TV ad analytics with Research Now SSI’s industry leading […]
The number of homes worldwide using an Ultra HD TV has now passed the 200 million mark, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics’ Connected Home Devices service. The report, 4K and 8K Ultra HDTV Global Market Forecast, predicts that 222 million homes will own an Ultra HD TV by the end of 2018, […]
Telefónica’s pay-TV platform Movistar is finalising the launch next week of the US streaming platform Netflix. Movistar will integrate Netflix into its Fusión convergent packages with a massive marketing campaign to take advantage of the Christmas season to capture subscribers. Netflix will integrate into Fusion Selección, Fusión Total and Fusión Total Plus which will also […]
Sky has entered into legally binding commitments with Comcast Corporation that guarantee the continued operation and long term funding of an editorially-independent Sky News. These commitments extend the Post Offer Undertakings given by Sky and Comcast in May 2018 in which they committed to maintaining inflation-adjusted funding in Sky News, to maintain Sky’s HQ in […]
US cable giant Comcast and Amazon have confirmed that the Prime Video service will launch over the next week on Comcast’s Xfinity X1 platform, giving millions of people access to an entertainment experience that now features seamless access to Prime Video originals, thousands of premium shows, movies, and live events right alongside all of the […]
Findings from analyst firm Parks Associates reveal that consumers are steadily adding connected entertainment devices to their households and using their smart features—83 per cent of Smart TV owners connect their device to the Internet, up from 70 per cent in 2014. Ownership of streaming media players has almost doubled from about 21 per cent […]
FreeWheel and Comcast Technology Solution have announced a partnership with Mediaset for the platform Mediaset Play, a new live and on demand online streaming service. The new offering helps unify Mediaset’s video distribution and advertising stack and is part of the broadcaster’s overarching AVOD (Advertising VOD) strategy. Mediaset Play is the result of a new […]
MTG’s esports companies Turtle Entertainment (ESL) and DreamHack have signed a broadcasting deal with TV 2, a national TV network in Denmark, that will bring over 700 hours of premium esports content to TV viewers in Denmark throughout 2019. • Denmark’s TV 2 acquires rights to broadcast Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournaments organised by ESL and […]