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Viacom launches Nickelodeon Play app in CEE

Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has announced the launch of its first mobile video streaming app in partnership with an affiliate platform in Central and Eastern Europe. Effective from today, Telenor customers in Serbia will have free access to longform content through the Nickelodeon Play VoD mobile app. Telenor is also set to debut Nickelodeon […]

September 20, 2018

Sony launches POP app in PS Store

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has partnered with Sony Interactive Entertainment, UK to launch the POP App, a new on-demand app for kids featuring some of the best-known shows from SPT’s UK commercial kids channel POP. Aimed at 7-11-year olds, the POP App is free for all connected PlayStation 4 devices and available to download from […]

September 20, 2018

RDK launches app program for service providers

At the 2018 RDK European Summit, RDK Management unveiled a new app program that it says will make it easier to develop and launch apps consistently across RDK-based set-top boxes (STBs). The two-pronged program gives service providers the flexibility to use a versatile new RDK App Framework to build and manage their own solutions, or […]

September 18, 2018

Italy: Boing app downloaded 1m times

Boing – an Italian free to air channel dedicated to kids and born from the joint venture between Turner and RTI Mediaset – launched the Boing app in August, allowing users to watch Boing content on the go on smartphone and tablet devices. In just a few weeks the app has already been downloaded 1 […]

September 18, 2018

‘Significant’ victory in TickBox litigation

Delivering victory in the first litigation filed by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) – a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market and reducing online piracy – a stipulated permanent injunction and judgment filed in federal court in Los Angeles compels piracy device seller TickBox to immediately cease all piracy activities. […]

September 12, 2018By Colin Mann

QuickMark watermarking to combat sports piracy

Content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA has launched NexGuard QuickMark, a subscriber-level watermarking solution to fight piracy of premium live sports on open devices. While premium live sports are a key growth driver for legitimate pay-TV service providers, they are also a fast-growing target for pirates who are starting to use open client […]

September 11, 2018By Colin Mann

Flixon.tv adds Flixon Cinema app

Newly launched US video streaming service Flixon.tv has added Flixon Cinema to its OTT applications Flixon Cinema contains movies, documentaries, comedies, sci-fi, dramas and TV shows packaged in over 250 hours of content which is refreshed monthly through its partnership with FilmHub.com. The content is provided as part of its standard basic offering at no […]

August 30, 2018

Insight TV partners with TCL, LG

Insight TV, the UHD broadcaster and producer of native UHD HDR content, has created and launched a Smart TV app in partnership with TV manufacturer TCL. Launched globally for Android 5 and higher TCL television sets, the new Insight TV Smart TV app is easy for customers to navigate to find their favourite Insight TV […]

August 28, 2018

Nielsen: US live TV viewing up 16min in 6 months

The amount of time Americans spend with media continues to increase, largely the result of the widespread connectivity and available content platforms. In just the few months since the end of the third quarter of last year, US consumers 18 and older increased their time with media by more than a full half hour, according […]

August 23, 2018

Jail term for ISD seller

Warren Gleave, of Burnley in the northwest of England, has been sentenced to 16 months in prison having been found guilty of selling illicit streaming devices pre-loaded with premium content. Gleave was sentenced at Burnley Crown Court and was immediately taken into custody. Over a three year period, Gleave unlawfully made in excess of £200,000 […]

August 17, 2018By Colin Mann