Bharti Airtel, India’s largest integrated telco, has announced the launch of its converged digital entertainment play: Airtel Xstream. Airtel Xstream is part of Airtel’s vision of building a digital entertainment ecosystem for Digital India and make it accessible to customers through innovative devices and applications. Over the coming months, Airtel plans to roll out a […]
Globecast, a global solutions provider for media, is partnering with PSSI Global Services, provider of comprehensive event, transmission and connectivity solutions, to enhance media distribution and contribution services for its customers. These include global distribution of news and sporting events, US teleport backup services, and expanded international programming in the US. As part of the […]
560 Media, the UK-based global rights collection agency, has signed a secondary television rights management deal with global entertainment powerhouse, Fremantle. The deal includes the management of retransmission rights, private copy levies, educational copying and public performance, amongst other rights, for their UK based distribution business and many of its local production offices around the […]
JUMP-Data-Driven Video, the advanced actionable business data platform for the video industry, announced that as of today it processes data for more than 17 million OTT users across 187 countries representing 2 million titles of video content, and reaching 3.5 billion playbacks on 35 million devices. The company’s rapid growth signals how important data-driven video […]
Viacom International Media Networks Americas, broadcasts live events like “La Voz Argentina” and the MTV Awards programmes, using Vyvx, a high quality content delivery solution provided by CenturyLink, a global technology provider. “Viacom needs to maintain connections for the transmission of its events, like MTV’s live international broadcasts, with excellent quality and speed,” explained Pablo […]
LiveU and Griiip have announced an extended partnership, integrating complementary racing series content solutions for broadcasters and streaming services to create a cost-effective, end-to-end video and data platform. The partnership combines LiveU’s ability to establish high-quality and reliable remote live broadcasts with Griiip’s data content solutions for engaging motorsport programming. The two companies have been […]
ENENSYS Technologies, a provider of media delivery solutions, is announcing the World First DVB-T2 Gateway running as a pure software: SmartGate-vT2. SmartGate-vT2 implements the latest state-of-the-art DVB-T2 gateway process, taking the benefit of more than 15 years of experience of ENENSYS in this area. SmartGate-vT2 enrichies the ENENSYS ‘s pure software based and virtualized “SmartGate” […]
Sky is in talks over a potential investment in a new full fibre network to be built by Liberty Global that could substantially raise pressure on BT in the UK broadband market, according to FT. Liberty Global appointed LionTree, the investment bank, to find partners for a new joint venture company that will build a […]
Following some two months of negotiations, Sky Italia and DAZN have reached an agreement on the launch of the DAZN 1 satellite TV channel from September 20th. The agreement will be valid until June 2021, which is when the current Italian TV rights for Serie A and Serie B football expire. Sky subscribers in Italy […]
Global online TV episode and movie revenues reached $68 billion (€61.9bn) in 2018, climbing from $51 billion in 2017 and up by $30 billion on 2016. From the 138 countries covered in Digital TV Research’s OTT TV and Video Databook, the top five commanded 71 per cent of the global revenues by 2018. OTT revenues […]