Affectiva, a global player in Emotion AI, has published findings on consumers’ emotional engagement with ad content over the last eight years, which show that advertisers are increasingly pulling on people’s heartstrings to generate a response. The analysis reveals that advertisers are becoming more effective at eliciting emotional responses – both positive and negative – […]
With much of the world still in some level of lockdown, the global sales of video games remained strong in September with impressive improvements on 2019 efforts. For example, console-based games rocketed up 38 per cent year-on-year while mobile games saw 9 per cent improvement. PC-based games grew 8 per cent and helped achieve an […]
Facebook has launched its first cloud-streamed video games service – which is free to use, but is not available on Apple iPhone or iPad devices. Initially, five titles are available as standalone smartphone apps and will be accessible via the main Facebook and Facebook Gaming apps on Android and Facebook’s website on PCs. The first […]
Samba TV data shows that 1.6 million US households streamed the Borat movie sequel on Amazon Prime Video during its opening weekend (October 22nd – 25th). Amazon’s decision to release the movie one day early, on the same day of the final presidential debate, didn’t seem to give it that great of a boost: only […]
Following the announcement earlier this month of the signature of the final agreements between Ateme and the main shareholders of Anevia, the companies have now announced the completion of a first contribution in kind to Ateme by the Majority Shareholders, with regards to a total of 4,283,620 Anevia shares representing 85 per cent of the […]
During the past year, Swedish households have purchased an additional 700 000 new SVoD-subscriptions. Consequently, in the third quarter, paid video services have reached a new record level following strong growth compared to the equivalent period last year. Furthermore, Mediavision’s analysis of the third quarter reveals that Netflix, for the first time since its launch […]
At the 2020 RDK Virtual Euro Summit, RDK Management announced the availability of RDK4 – the newest generation, open source software platform used to power customer-premise equipment (CPE) for video service providers worldwide. RDK4 provides a carrier-grade software stack optimised for deploying apps and managing core technical functions of set-top boxes. “RDK4 is the culmination […]
Reports have emerged that London-based satellite operator Inmarsat had “secretly” linked with Hughes Network System to collaborate on winning a major slice of the world’s in-flight broadband services, and bringing costs down to zero for travellers. Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce described the link with Hughes (a business owned by Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar) as a “game […]
BroadbandNow’s quarterly The State of Broadband in America study for the third quarter of this year further advocates for a new definition for broadband internet – increasing download speeds to 100 Mbps and upload speeds to 25 Mbps – by highlighting the state’s with the most and least access to those level of speeds. Currently, […]
Harmonic has announced its unaudited results for the third quarter of 2020. The solutions provider for video streaming and broadband services reported revenue of $94.9 million (€80.2m), down 18 per cent year on year, despite strong momentum. “Harmonic’s third quarter results were driven by strong performance in both our Cable Access and Video segments,” said […]