Telenet, the Belgian MSO, had 1,065,000 digital homes as of March 31, 2010 but is still losing basic analogue subscribers to the fierce competition from Belgacom, which offers 'free' TV with a number of its broadband and telephony packages. During the first quarter 144,000 new customers signed up. Digital TV added 65,000 homes, while 34,000 […]
DirecTV Group and DISH Network have confirmed the launch of the Advanced Satellite Advertising Platform (ASAP), a new interactive advertising platform giving national television advertisers unprecedented reach to nearly 30 million US households. Advertisers will benefit from a turn-key, one-stop-shop approach with respect to the process of creating, planning, buying and implementing a national interactive […]
Spend on UK mobile ads rose 32 per cent from 2008 to £37.6 million (E44 million), says the Internet Advertising Bureau / PWC. This compares with £3.4 billion online. In keeping with online, search ads are the fastest-growing kind on mobile – up 42 per cent to £20.2 million. Display ads (banners, text links, pre-/post-roll […]
Virgin Media is launching an online movie service provided by FilmFlex, the Sony-Disney JV that operates Virgin's premium on demand service. Movies can be streamed directly to PCs and will be of sufficient quality for users to also watch on their TV with a suitable connection. "Virgin Media already offers the UK's leading movies on […]
Facebook is rolling out features that link the company’s platform more tightly with outside Web sites (see above). Facebook’s “open graph” would let people see information tailored to their lives and interests wherever they are on the Web, the company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said. The idea is to make Facebook the centre of the […]
A report from Media Partners Asia forecasts that digital TV subscriptions will double and account 70 per cent of the total by 2014 and 82 per cent by 2020, up from just 34 per cent by the end of 2009, or 116 million. The report, Asia Pacific Pay-TV & Broadband Markets 2010, says that in […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Portuguese communications regulator Anacom has put out for public consultation the plan for the analogue switch-off (ASO), with the migration to DTT to be completed by April 26th 2012. The plan has been submitted for prior consultation to digital multiplex operator PT Comunicações and national broadcasters RTP, SIC and TVI. […]
Warner Bros is buying North America's largest independent online gaming studio in an effort to spread its social networking and micro-payments technology across its video games and home video business. The acquisition of Turbine, the group behind Dungeons & Dragons Online and the hit multiplayer online game based on Warner's Lord of the Rings film […]
Samsung is launching an £8 million (E9m) ad campaign to promote the first 3D TV sets to go on sale in the UK. Samsung’s 3D TVs will be the first to go on sale, available April 27th, with the company’s ad campaign launching the next day during the Champion’s League semi-final on ITV1. The campaign […]
TeliaSonera has reported it had 823,000 customers for its pay-TV services across all markets by the end of the first quarter of 2010, up 135,000 during the period, with 633,000 of the total being IPTV subscribers. Nearly 27 per cent of its broadband base across all markets now subscribe to its IPTV services, available in […]