A month after announcing its global soft launch across 190+ countries, ZEE5, the digital entertainment platform from Zee Entertainment Enterprises, has formed a strategic partnership with NetRange, a provider of global Smart TV and OTT ecosystems. The ZEE5 app will be available on all NetRange’s Smart TV platforms across its 100+ global network. Archana Anand, […]
Snap has agreed a deal with independent factual production company Barcroft Media to bring eight of its digital series to its mobile sharing app Snapchat. Five new TV series — Ridiculous Rides, Snapped in the Wild, Beast Buddies, Born Different and Shake My Beauty — are already available already to Snapchat users across the globe. […]
The Auckland High Court has ruled that Internet-streaming service My Box cannot be represented as legal, and that using My Box (and other units like it) to show SKY movies, TV and sports programmes breaches copyright. Sophie Moloney, SKY’s General Counsel, welcomed the ruling. “This decision, along with the recent ruling against Fibre TV boxes in […]
UKTV has unveiled its first deal invested through UKTV Ventures, its multi-million pound innovation fund, with an airtime-for-equity investment in Hopster. The broadcaster also announced the appointment of Sheena Amin to spearhead the fund. UKTV announced the launch of the innovation fund last year to invest in burgeoning high-growth companies wishing to access the television […]
Vewd, the smart TV OTT software provider, has announced that iVideoSmart the independent premium video publisher in South East Asia, have jointly launched more than a 100 new Vewd certified apps. iVideoSmart premium partners such as GMA, Yan News, Cinemania, Bounty Films, Adagio are already live on the platform. And through iVideoSmart’s collaboration with VideoElephant, […]
Some 55 per cent of US households subscribe to at least one streaming service, according to findings from Deloitte, and ESPN+ is the latest example of the rising popularity of OTT, having garnered over 1 million subscribers within the first five months. But many of these apps experience an unusually high churn rate, according to […]
The Netflix app has launched on UK OTT service NOW TV streaming devices. As well as adding Netflix to the wide range of apps already available, NOW TV also revealed the launch of its most powerful ever streaming device – the NOW TV Smart Box with 4K & Voice Search. Available from September 26th, the […]
The co-founders of social media sharing app Instagram are both leaving the firm. Kevin Systrom, CEO, confirmed that he and fellow CEO Mike Krieger were departing to “explore our curiosity and creativity again”. In a blog post, Systrom explained: “We’re now ready for our next chapter. “Building new things requires that we step back, understand […]
In a move that it says will offer more ways to discover and enjoy music, Apple has completed its December 2017 acquisition of Shazam, one of the world’s most popular and highly-rated music apps, used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. “Apple and Shazam have a long history together. Shazam was one of the […]
Multichannel programmer UKTV’s on demand and catch-up TV app is now available on all Samsung TVs sold from 2015 onwards. With thousands of hours of Dave, Drama, Really and Yesterday programming on offer, the free UKTV Play app offers anytime viewing, access to box-sets, previews of new shows, exclusive content and personalisation with a dedicated […]