Comcast’s NBCUniversal has confirmed details for its Peacock streaming service – due to launch in the US with early bird access on April 15th. As forecast it will offer various subscription tiers for its 600 movies and 400 TV series, as well as live and on-demand content across news, sports, late night, and reality. Taking […]
Research from Parks Associates finds over one-quarter of US broadband households are interested in innovative offerings accessed via television, such as offline viewing, video gaming, food delivery, ride sharing, and gambling. The research, found in 360 View: Video Services & Connected Consumers, also reveals that 25 per cent
BT has become the first European distribution partner for Stadia, Google’s new cloud gaming platform. The partnership will see BT and Google deliver cloud gaming via this new-generation platform to more UK consumers as well as see the two companies work together on initiatives designed to build awareness, access and availability of it in the […]
Netflix boss Reed Hastings, in an interview with French news magazine L’Express, says that his streaming platform now has 6.7 million subscribers in France. Hastings disclosed that Netflix also plans to invest €100 million in 2020 in France in local productions. This decision follows the news earlier this week that the French government is finalising […]
FreeWheel, a Comcast company, has revealed that according to a survey of over 300 marketers and agencies, advanced TV is being used by the majority of advertisers to reach their target audiences. Among these solutions, OTT/Connected TV was purchased by the highest percentage (66 per cent) of advertisers over the past month. Addressable TV (household-level […]
The C-Band Alliance (CBA) has filed a comprehensive 16-page statement with the FCC that pulls no punches in its argument for a fair commercial reward for reallocating 280 MHz of its satellite spectrum over the US, for use by 5G operators. Currently the FCC says it will itself manage an auction of the spectrum, and […]
Designed to give media brands a more reliable and cost effective way to stream content, edge cloud platform provider Fastly has unveiled Origin Connect, a direct private network connection between an organisation’s origin server and a Fastly Shield point of presence (POP). Fastly says this is ideal for companies moving more than one gigabyte of […]
The DPP, the media industry’s business network, has published its annual report on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas – and identified important trends for the media and entertainment industry. This year’s report was enabled by new DPP member company Dell Technologies. “CES 2020 had less hype, and more substance,” reports DPP Managing […]
OneWeb, the global communications company whose goal is to connect everyone everywhere, has announce a new distributor partnership with Pacific Dataport (PDI), a company founded by Microcom – a supplier of satellite communication systems in Alaska. The collaboration will enable delivery of OneWeb’s high speed, low latency, communications services across Alaska. PDI’s distribution agreement with […]
Netflix and Bill Prady have agreed a first look deal for scripted series programming. Prady has penned scripts for a number of iconic television series including The Muppets, Married… With Children and Dharma & Greg. In 2007, Prady co-created the hit CBS series The Big Bang Theory with television veteran Chuck Lorre. He served as […]