Channel 5’s portfolio of TV channels delivered its highest-ever annual share of viewing (SOV) amongst both ABC1 and 16 to 34-year-old TV viewers in the UK in 2017, helping the broadcaster to its strongest overall ratings performance for 13 years. Channel 5’s performance in 2017 contributed to a strong year overall for its parent company, […]
Fantasy series Game of Thrones has been voted as the “most bingeable” TV boxset in a poll conducted by Samsung UK. Second was AMC’s Breaking Bad, about a cancer-stricken teacher becoming a drug baron. British period drama Downton Abbey ranked third. The poll of 2,000 adults also found 44 per cent now prefer to watch […]
Limelight Networks, a global player in digital content delivery, delivered record online traffic levels in December 2017, a 21 per cent increase over its previous record set in November 2017 and a 23 per cent increase from December 2016. Record traffic volume was driven by several large customers choosing Limelight to meet the high demand […]
As widely expected, HBO has revealed that its TV ratings behemoth Game of Thrones will not return for its final season until 2019. In a statement, HBO said: ” The epic fantasy series Game of Thrones will return for its six-episode, eighth and final season in 2019. David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, David Nutter and […]
comScore is partnering with Sling TV, the US skinny bundle provider, to offer cross-platform addressable advertising measurement for campaigns that joins the live OTT service’s impressions and DISH set-top box impressions. comScore measures addressable television impressions across all platforms, including OTT. As the inaugural user of this new service, Sling TV brings comScore verified addressable […]
China is accelerating 5G development and hopes 5G will become an engine for the country’s new industrialisation and digital transformation, replicating its industrial policy that produced success in 4G, concludes Strategy Analytics in the report “China Government Sees 5G as an Engine of Industry Development, but Will Operators Have Enough Fuel?” The report also points […]
Viewers tuned in record numbers to BBC AMERICA on Christmas Day 2017 to say goodbye to Doctor Who’s Twelfth Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, in the special Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time. The annual programming event notched 2.2 million total viewers and 1.1 million adults 25-54 across its two Christmas telecasts in Nielsen live+7 ratings, propelling […]
Hisense 4K Smart TVs will now offer a wide variety of voice features right out of the box courtesy of Amazon Alexa. Alexa will help users control certain primary functions, including voice commands, changing inputs and controlling volume. Additionally, the Alexa voice service seamlessly connects to music services like iHeartRadio, Pandora, as well as thousands […]
Brightcove, a provider of cloud services for video, is providing live streaming for Le Figaro, the oldest daily newspaper in France and parent company of the French information website. Earlier this year, Le Figaro used Brightcove Live, Brightcove’s API based-solution that delivers and monetises broadcast-like experiences for live events and 24/7 channels, to broadcast the […]
DTC Domo Broadcast and VideoSys Broadcast teamed up to provide Arena TV with the first ultra-low delay wireless 4K camera transmitter system to be used for a live broadcast. On December 2nd, Arena TV deployed Domo Broadcast’s AEON 4K transmitter (AEON-TX) coupled with a camera control and fibre system designed and provided by VideoSys to […]