Sony has confirmed a deal with Sky that will see the Sky Go and Now TV services become available on the PlayStation 4. Now TV will launch this summer and Sky Go ‘later this year’. Now TV offers live streaming and on-demand content from a selection of Sky channels and has been available on PlayStation […]
Comcast has revealed that customers of its X1 triple-play service will soon be able to live stream personal video from their mobile devices, over the Internet, directly to the television. The new feature, which will be part of Xfinity Voice, is being demonstrated this week at NCTA’s The Cable Show 2014 in Los Angeles and […]
VUDU, a subscription-free VoD service, and castLabs, a digital video technology and services company, have collaborated to bring VUDU’s collection of the latest movies and TV to Google’s Chromecast. Available immediately, this enables customers to tap into their personal device’s potential to send their VUDU content to their TV screens. With castLabs’ software, this has […]
Jeffrey Katzenberg, Chief Executive of DreamWorks Animation, has suggested the availability window for feature films will reduce to as little as 17 days, and that a ‘pay-by-the-inch’ model will also emerge. Katzenberg made his comments during the Entrepreneurial Leadership in the Corporate World panel at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills. “I think the […]
ESPN enjoyed a record-breaking March in the UK boosted by the ICC Twenty20 World Cup and Asia Cup competitions – and an enthralling March Madness tournament on ESPN Player. According to data from independent research firm ComScore, cricket fans spent more time on ESPNcricinfo than the next nine major sites combined, and on average 14 […]
YOU On Demand Holdings, the multi-platform entertainment and VoD company in China, has launched its YOU Cinema movie subscription on the Xiaomi OTT set-top box as part of YOU On Demand’s previously announced distribution deal with China Network Television’s (CNTV) subsidiary, Future TV. Future TV, operating under CNTV’s Internet TV broadcasting control licence, provides OTT […]
Broadcasters made £126 million (€148m) in 2013 from adverts placed in on-demand content in 2013. As Channel 4’s on demand service, 4OD, and the ITV Player gain viewers, spend in this area will be growing at more than 30 per cent a year by 2015, according to the Advertising Association and the World Advertising Research […]
With the explosion of smartphones and digital tablets and the steady rise of Internet-connected televisions, gaming consoles, etc, consumers are increasingly watching streaming or downloaded video when and where they want. According to research from Experian
Despite a relative drop in visit share of 8.9 per cent over the last year in the US, YouTube is still by far the video site most frequently visited from a desktop computer with a 58.77 per cent share of visits among a custom aggregate of video-rich sites, according to
Amazon’s Prime subscription service will stream a selection of HBO series, mini-series and original movies as part of its new licensing deal. The deal, the first time that licensed HBO content has been available online outside of its own HBO Go service for subscribers, allows Amazon to stream a library of shows older than three […]