Harmonic has announced that Liquid Telecom, the leading independent data, voice and IP service provider in eastern, central and southern Africa, will launch a fully managed service headend for a new DTH provider leveraging a complete headend solution from Harmonic. “While our platform will launch imminently, the goal was to partner with a video infrastructure […]
Preliminary Q1 figures from US industry body DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group suggest that consumer spending on home entertainment was stable for the quarter compared to the year earlier period, but outperforming the box office. Notably, consumers have purchased more than seven million 4K UHD TVs to date in the brief period since the product […]
SES says it is now carrying 23 Ultra HD channels across its fleet (up from 19 at December 31st). Fifteen of these channels are commercial. SES says it will increase its shareholding in specialist satellite operator O3b (which targets the ‘other 3 billion’ of underserved broadband consumers) to 50.5 per cent, and thus take a […]
The UK government could make the BBC trial a new paid-for service on the iPlayer. Culture secretary John Whittingdale signaled last month that the government would rush through legislation to close the “iPlayer loophole” of licence non-payment. As well as telling the BBC to put password controls on the iPlayer, he will ask it to […]
SymphonyAM, a data technology and research firm that passively measures integrated cross-media consumption, has revealed the findings from their report about the positive impact that streaming back seasons has on current broadcast TV shows. The study found that an average of 38 per cent of viewers who watched a back season across any platform during […]
BBC Worldwide has announced, at the Asia Pay TV Operators Summit (APOS) in Indonesia, the launch of BBC Player, a new authenticated multi-genre SVoD service that will allow viewers to watch BBC programmes anytime anywhere – online, as well as via an app on their smartphones and tablets. It will be available in Singapore to […]
Viacom and streaming platform specialist Roku are partnering to enable Viacom to utilise aggregated audience insights from Roku to deliver targeted advertising on the Roku platform. According to the pair, this first-of-its-kind partnership between an over-the-top (OTT) platform and programmer is the latest illustration of the power of OTT advertising. “Viacom’s unique partnership with Roku […]
US pay-radio operator SiriusXM has reported its Q1 numbers and declared that the quarter was their best-ever with revenues climbing 11 per cent to $1.2 billion, and issued fresh guidance for the rest of this year saying that it now expected to add 1.6 million net new subs this year (previous guidance was for 1.4 […]
Videology – a software provider for converged TV and video advertising – has released findings that show continued interest in leveraging TV data for digital video targeting. The news dovetails on Videology’s recently announced enhanced integration with Nielsen, offering a unique cross-screen view of audiences for planning across TV & Digital. According to an analysis of […]
Experian Marketing Services, a specialist in data-driven marketing and cloud-based marketing technology, has unveiled an audience-management platform that is says will change the way the advertising industry buys and measures media. The Audience Engine platform deterministically links and matches data across the marketing ecosystem in a unified, automated platform for targeting, execution and measurement of […]