4oD, Channel 4’s on-demand offering, saw its viewing figures continue to rise in September, with 33 million requested views across all platforms during the month, an increase on the 31 million views reported in August. Up to the end of September, VoD views totalled 308 million for the year-to-date, up 19.3 per cent year-on-year. The […]
CASBAA’s Q4 update on trends in multichannel TV distribution, audience data and viewership shows a 12 per cent industry growth in the past 12 months in terms of connected homes and an increase in dual subscription homes as channel choices increase. “As we head towards the close of the year it’s heartening to see multichannel […]
Fox Networks and DirecTV have reached an agreement for DirecTV to continue carrying all Fox Networks (including FX, National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo WILD, SPEED, FUEL TV, FOX Soccer, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Deportes), Fox’s regional sports networks, Fox Broadcasting (FOX), the FOX local stations, Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. In a […]
At the opening morning of the CASBAA Convention 2011 at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, panelists spoke of the increasing importance of OTT services and ways to monetise content without cannibalising existing audiences or revenues. Blair Westlake, corporate vice president, media and entertainment group at Microsoft, pointed to the success of content via its Xbox […]
Eutelsat has won a ‘multiyear’ contract to supply capacity on Atlantic Bird 7 to MBC, the Middle East’s market-leading broadcaster. The deal covers a full transponder allowing MBC to transmit a number of HD channels to Arab viewers. Atlantic Bird 7 sits alongside Nilesat’s two major satellites and is thus ‘visible’ widely throughout the Middle […]
Adobe Systems has acquired privately held Auditude, a specialist in video ad management and monetisation technologies for publishers and media companies. Through the acquisition of Auditude, Adobe is now positioned to provide an end-to-end video offering, seamlessly connecting authoring, publishing, monetisation and optimisation with the goal of helping customers build long-term businesses through the delivery […]
Alfalak Electronic, a provider of technology-based end-to-end solutions in the Middle East, has partnered with Mariner and deployed xVu, Mariner’s award-winning IPTV service assurance platform. Mariner’s xVu suite of service assurance products enables lower operating costs for TV service providers through effective trouble isolation and the avoidance of recurring field costs such as dispatches and […]
Admitting that the initial version of Google TV “wasn’t perfect”, Google has announced a software update aimed at providing a better user experience. Writing in the Google TV blog, Mario Queiroz, Vice President Product Management, and Vincent Dureau, Director of Engineering, note that with over three billion views a day, sites such as YouTube are […]
The UK TV licence fee could be extended to cover catch-up services such as the BBC iPlayer as part of an overhaul of the levy being considered by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. British viewers currently pay £145.50 (€166) annually for a licence if they watch or record programmes as they are broadcast, […]
With parent company Google revealing a software update to its Google TV service, YouTube has announced the arrival of a range of channels aimed at bringing an even broader range of entertainment for the site’s users. Writing in the official YouTube blog, Robert Kyncl, Global Head of Content Partnerships, suggests that “wonderful things happen when […]