Preliminary results from IMS Research's forthcoming 2009 study on the World Market for Set-top Boxes and iDTVs has revealed that during 2008 the mantle of being the leading digital pay-TV platform was taken from DTH satellite by digital cable. According to Stephen Froehlich, a senior analyst in IMS Research's consumer electronics research group, "Digital cable […]
European media commissioner Viviane Reding has set out her vision for a "Digital Europe", with four key points including a plea to resolve the legislative impasse caused by opposition to "three strikes" plans. On speeding the DSO she says: "The United States as a whole switched to digital TV last month. I call therefore on […]
ESPN has been awarded two packages of rights containing a total of 46 matches available for season 2009/10 to air in Ireland. The move extends ESPN’s football offering that began with the acquisition of the UK Premier League broadcast rights following the collapse of pay-TV broadcaster Setanta last month. ESPN said the broadcaster was currently […]
The director general of RTE has now publicly admitted that launching Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) in September is no longer a “reasonable” prospect. When the consortium originally charged with rolling out the commercial arm of DTT walked away from the project in April, it was said there would be no effect on RTE’s plans to […]
Communications market research firm Infonetics recently released the Q1 09 edition of its IPTV and Switched Digital Video Equipment, Services, and Subscribers report. Highlights are: "All eyes are focused on video on-demand and streaming content servers as more and more programming moves to on-demand. VOD is rapidly becoming EOD (everything on-demand) as operators beef up […]
Forrester Research is backing the US interactive ad market to reach $55 billion over the next five years—meaning marketers will go from spending just 12 per cent of their total ad budgets online this year, to 21 per cent by 2014. Search and display will command the biggest percentage of spend overall—with $31.5 billion and […]
Canoe Ventures has cancelled plans to introduce its Community Addressable Messaging (CAM 1.0) product, citing a range of technical difficulties with the offering. The service, which was set to launch this summer, would have allowed advertisers to run one spot in 370 pre-selected, high income cable “zones” and another in the rest of the country. […]
The English Premier League will take until the end of the week to decide between the bids it has received for Setanta's relinquished 46 EPL games. The smart money is on half going to Sky (it can't take all of them because of competition regulation) and half to ESPN. Pay-to-watch service Top Up TV has […]
Joost was squeezed out of the market by broadcasters setting up their own VOD channels admits Mike Volpi, who resigned as CEO. He said that in April, when Disney joined the Hulu joint venture, it became pretty clear Joost had to do something else — it is becoming a white label video provider. Explaining how […]
Sky is doing an advertising deal with Spotify using the music streaming app's audio commercials to pipe near-live commentary updates from the Ashes cricket tournament, inviting listeners to click a banner to watch the competition live via Sky Player. The promo comes with a half-price offer for the service. …………