Swedish film streaming site Voddler, still in beta, has won another $3.5 million in funding from Eqvitec Partners and brings the total amount invested to million $20.2 million. To coincide with the announcement, Voddler is also extending its beta programme to Norway. Voddler already has 420,000 users in Sweden, and the plan is to extend […]
News Corp returned to profit with $254 million for the three months to December, compared with a $6.4 billion loss a year ago – down to major asset write-downs. “Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things digital,” said chairman Rupert Murdoch. “We’re on the cusp of a digital revolution from […]
NBC Universal plans to measure audience exposure across all of its media platforms to provide “unprecedented insight into consumer cross-platform behaviour and advertising effectiveness” during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The effort will build on the pioneering research conducted during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. NBCU says it will launch its second Olympic research lab during […]
Verizon, in an agreement with NBC Universal, has announced a multi-platform content offering that will make the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games available to Verizon‚s FiOS TV, broadband and wireless customers. Beginning with the opening ceremony on February 12th, Verizon will offer subscribers access to content across multiple platforms, including an enhanced, interactive TV experience, […]
From Colin Mann in London A survey of European consumers has revealed pan-generational consumer demand to further control and customise the content experience. The 2010 European Media Engagement Barometer, commissioned by Motorola's Home and Networks Mobility business, shows that 87 per cent of UK consumers regularly share content across devices while at home and on […]
Over two-thirds of American pay television subscribers would be willing to switch providers if offered a price discount of 20 per cent, according to a report just published by Strategy Analytics. While Cable customers were the most likely to churn, only half as many (33 per cent) of Telco TV/IPTV subscribers would switch. The report, […]
Plan for ITV to introduce a pay-per-view service for ITV2, 3 and 4 under new chief executive Adam Crozier seem to be firming up. ITV has said it will undergo a thorough strategic review which will rule nothing out, including a move away from the free-to-air advertising model to a much broader media platform by […]
Virgin Media saw a record breaking 2009 with over 750 million on demand views, an increase of 50 per cent on the previous 12 months. Over 59 per cent of Virgin Media's 3.7 million TV customers are now regularly using the service, an increase of over a quarter of a million homes in a year. […]
The Philippines government may push back the deadline for the migration to digital terrestrial TV given the unresolved matter of which platform will be adopted. “2015 might be a stretch to achieve. We have to move it, but hopefully not 2020,” Secretary Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) said. […]
The French VOD market continues to see growth, mainly driven by operator offers. According to preliminary figures from GFK, the VOD market grew to over E80 million in 2009, up from E53 million in 2008. TV VOD represents from 80 per cent to 90 per cent of VOD revenues in France. In this market, Orange […]