K League 1, the top-tier Korean football league, will begin its postponed season May 8th with a global match broadcast live to social media using Grabyo. K League will use Grabyo’s cloud video platform to produce and deliver the season opener between Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and Suwon Samsung Bluewings to its YouTube and Twitter channels […]
As previously revealed, with Euro 2020 postponed until next year, AVoD service ITV Hub has raided its archives to provide football fans with a slice of sports nostalgia as the platform unearths every match from 1996’s tournament, hosted in England, for Euro 96 Relived. Airing from May 11th, ITV Hub takes a trip down sporting […]
YouTube is to be the exclusive live streaming home for Felix Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie, one of the world’s most popular gaming celebrities and content creators. Kjellberg has amassed 104 million subscribers and generated over 25 billion views to date, far and away the most of any individually operated YouTube channel in history. “YouTube has been […]
It is clear that live events will come flooding back post-crisis and with them all the challenges they present for OTT. But is it time for a new approach? Consumption-based distribution and monitoring provisioned from the cloud means event streamers can leverage top class reliability, efficiency and user experience without the cost of always-on infrastructure […]
With filming on fresh shows halted, and those in the can likely to run out at some future stage, users of UK commercial PSB ITV’s AVoD service ITV Hub will be treated to classic episodes of their favourite soap operas from Monday May 4th. Vintage episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale will be making their […]
Freesat, the UK FTA platform, has announced the addition of YouTube Kids to its 4K TV boxes and library of apps. Targeting kids under 13, YouTube Kids has become one of the most popular children’s apps available since its launch in 2015. It offers a range of choice from trusted channels and covers genres such […]
Tastemade has announced the launch of its streaming network — featuring programming in the categories of Food, Travel, and Home & Design — on VIZIO SmartCast TVs and leading TV streaming service, Sling TV. Now, 14 million more viewers in the US have access to Tastemade’s premium lifestyle content by streaming through VIZIO SmartCast TVs […]
Amazon has agreed with the National Football League (NFL) for a three-year deal to continue streaming NFL Thursday night games. Amazon Prime Video and Twitch will stream the 11 Thursday Night Football games broadcast by FOX, which will be available to more than 150 million paid Prime members worldwide, and in over 200 countries and […]
Sinclair Networks-owned Tennis Channel has launched an international subscription streaming service, the first-stage roll out for what is intended to become a global tennis-media destination. Initially launching in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with plans for other worldwide markets, the over-the-top (OTT) platform will offer content on the new Tennis Channel International app, with the service […]
Video software provider Synamedia has partnered with Google Cloud to expand its video network portfolio with new OTT ‘as a service’ offerings. It suggests this enables the company further to address customer needs for high availability, increased scalability and maximised performance for OTT services while simultaneously reducing operational costs and complexity, particularly with live sports […]