ICFLIX the Middle East and North Africa streaming service, has partnered with Pakistani tech brand Haier, to make movies and TV series from ICFLIX more accessible to Haier mobile users across the region. The ICFLIX offering will consist of popular Bollywood movies alongside Award-winning Hollywood movies such as The Wolf of Wall Street, Hugo and […]
Primetime, an online streaming platform and content provider, has expanded their features and service by implementing the solutions of Unified Streaming, a leading provider of cross-platform video streaming technologies. “Unified Streaming is among our top list of technology partners. We are highly impressed with the quality of service and support USP offers, it was beyond […]
Mance Media, a global film and television distribution company launched by Matthew Mancinelli in early 2012, says it is at the forefront of 4K Ultra HD content distribution in America, if not globally. For the past two years, Mance Media has perfected, and built an infrastructure around, the new 4K Ultra HD format. “It was […]
Facebook has commenced testing the ability for people to share live video on Facebook, starting with a small percentage of people in the US on iPhones. “Live lets you show the people you care about what you’re seeing in real time — whether you’re visiting a new place, cooking your favourite recipe, or just want […]
Tom Mockridge, the head of Virgin Media, has called on the Premier League to allow all 380 matches per season to be broadcast live on television. Although Mockridge does not expect the media regulator Ofcom to dismiss the Premier League’s existing deals, he said he would welcome such changes to the next contract, starting in […]
Television is currently the dominant advertising medium, with a 38 per cent share of total adspend in 2015 according to ZenithOptimedia’s new Advertising Expenditure Forecasts. In 2018, however, ZenithOptimedia expects the Internet to overtake television to become the largest single advertising medium. Looking at the ad market as a whole, ZenithOptimedia believes
Irish telco Eir (formally Eircom) is buying Setanta Sports Ireland. The company will buy the group of channels that also includes the Irish rights to BT Sport. Eir launched a television package in 2013 that had 43,000 customers by the end of September, however, this is the first time the company has become involved in […]
Telefónica’s Movistar Plus has acquired the exclusive rights to air English Premier League football matches in Spain. The three year deal will start next season. The news comes at a time when Telefonica has suffered major setbacks in its strategy to capture pay-TV subscribers, having lost most of its football TV rights to Mediapro. In […]
Netflix still dominates streaming US networks by a wide margin, but rivals are increasing in traffic, says Sandvine in its latest Global Internet Phenomena report. Network manager Sandvine based its findings on data collected from 250-plus customers around the globe in September and October and said Netflix accounted for
Consumer research findings from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) indicate that 81 per cent of US households get a broadband Internet service at home, an increase from 26 per cent in 2005. Broadband now accounts for 97 per cent of all households with Internet service at home — an increase from 91 per cent in 2010, […]