Netflix is raising the price for its US subscription plans, its first increase since 2017. The streaming service’s basic $7.99 (€7) single-viewer, non-HD plan is increasing to $8.99 monthly, while the standard $10.99 two HD streams plan rises to $12.99. The premium four-stream HD plan increases to $15.99 from $13.99. “We change pricing from time […]
This week, investment bank Exane/BNPP is holding a series of presentations with Spanish industry players, and in a note to clients says that it is now cautiously optimistic on the state of Spanish commercial broadcasters, which it now favours over Italian TV. The bank says: “We like the Spanish TV names and expect them to […]
While more and more Americans are watching video content – TV shows, movies, and short video – on their smartphones, research from MRI shows that video remains a highly social medium. The latest findings from MRI’s Cord Evolution research show that Americans watch TV or video in groups almost half (48 per cent) of their […]
Business advisory firm Deloitte predicts that smart speakers – Internet-connected speakers with integrated digital assistants – will be the fastest-growing connected device in 2019, with 164 million units to be sold globally, up from 98 million in 2018. The news comes following the launch of the eighteenth edition of Deloitte’s TMT Predictions 2019 report. Smart […]
Howard Lance, CEO at Maxar Technologies, which owns Space Systems/Loral as well as the DigitalGlobe mapping and Earth observation business, is stepping down unexpectedly. He had been in post just 32 months. Maxar has been under extreme pressure these past months because of the downturn in orders from the geostationary sector and had already announced […]
AR/VR 1.0 kicked off in earnest when Facebook bought Oculus back in 2014. This inspired a generation of entrepreneurs, corporates and VCs to build early stage AR/VR. Despite significant technical progress, even industry insiders admit this hasn’t produced a mass market yet. Mobile AR delivered 2 per cent higher revenue than we forecast for 2018 […]
SpotX, the global video advertising and monetisation platform, has releasd of a new report titled 2019 Video Advertising Trends. Based on a combination of third-party data as well as what SpotX hears from media buyers, sellers, and other industry players in-market, the report identifies four important trends that the industry can expect to see this […]
YouTube videos that feature dangerous or emotionally distressing pranks have been banned from the video-sharing platform. The move comes in response to so-called “challenges” that have sometimes resulted in death or injury – with the latest trend that has seemingly spawned the action seeing challengers attempt to complete every day tasks whilst completely blindfolded, inspired […]
According to cloud-based video production, editing and distribution platform Grabyo, DAZN, the online sports streaming service owned by DAZN Group, has enjoyed an impressive 2018 leveraging the power of social video to bolster its brand awareness and drive subscription growth using Grabyo’s platform to deploy a targeted video distribution strategy across its social channels on […]
Helios Towers, an infrastructure player already present in Tanzania, the Congo, and Ghana, says it is ready to invest $100 million providing new telecoms connectivity in South Africa over the next 3-4 years. Helios (66 per cent) is linking with Vulatel (34 per cent) in a new business, Helios Towers South Africa (HTSA). Kash Pandya, […]