ITV has hired ex BBC Online manager James Micklethwait to head a new team responsible for ITV’s online and on-demand products, both free and paid. Micklethwait will be product strategy and customer engagement director. At the BBC, he had previously been programme director for Open iPlayer, the failed project for sharing iPlayer technology with other […]
KIT digital, the provider of cloud-based video asset management solutions for multi-screen delivery, has made three separate acquisitions aimed consolidating the IP video market and creating a truly ‘Lens-to- Lens’ video offering. The deals involve New York City-based KickApps, Paris-based Kewego, and San Francisco-based Kyte, for aggregate consideration of approximately $77.2 million. “These strategic acquisitions […]
An iPlayer application for iOS devices, which was announced over a year ago, and eventually green-lighted by the BBC Trust six months ago, appears to be imminent. The app will be available by the end of February according to various reports. It’s currently possible to use the iPlayer service via a web interface on iOS […]
UK commercial broadcasters’ marketing body Thinkbox has revealed that live, linear TV viewing figures in the UK for 2010 were the highest since records began. According to new figures from the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (BARB), in 2010 the average TV viewer watched 28 hours, 15 minutes of live, linear TV a week (4 hours, […]
Netflix announced that in the last hours of 2010 it passed 20 million subs with Net Subscriber Additions of 3.08 million for Q4. Revenue for the quarter was $596 million with operating income of $78 million and Net Income of $47 million The company said “More subscriber growth enables us to spend more on streaming […]
The revised year-end 2016 forecast for DVR Subscriber Households now stands at 61.8 million (50 per cent of TV households), up from 37.9 million (32 per cent of TV households) as of the end of Q3 2010. By 2016, it is expected that VOD (redefined to include OTT services like Netflix, Vudu and Hulu) will […]
Netflix is the content business’s friend. That was the message from the company’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos, speaking at NATPE. He characterised Netflix’s relationship with studios as “very strong,” and Sarandos acknowledged there is “a lot of anxiety” about the dramatic shifts in customer demand for more on-demand viewing and the question of how […]
A patent holding company called Pragmatus is suing six of the largest MSOs for infringing two patents that describe storage-retrieval-playback systems that sufficiently generic they can describe any VOD system. Named in the suit are Bright House Networks, Cablevision Systems, Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable, along with various other associated organisations […]
IP Vision has revealed that leading health and fitness channel Fitness TV is the latest addition to its FetchTV platform, the UK’s first commercial hybrid OTT/IPTV service for consumers. Fitness TV is available immediately to FetchTV viewers for just £1.99 per month as well as via pay-per-view on demand. Fitness TV is the UK’s first […]
Viewster, the premium digital movie and TV content service from DIVA AG, has been announced as the first global provider of premium VOD content to Boxee. Viewster will be Boxee’s first global premium VOD provider, and also its first 3D provider outside the US “Right now, Boxee is one of the hottest and most exciting […]