CDN specialist Akamai has revealed that streaming traffic for the Rio Olympic games has obliterated data from previous games. In a statement the company said: “Akamai delivered more video data in the first eight days of Rio than it did for all 34 days of London and Sochi combined.” Last week the company revealed that […]
Zee Media’s World Is One News (WION) launched August 15th, India’s Independence Day, with a former CNN award-winning journalist and producer at its helm. Rohit Gandhi is running the news channel, which promises to take a fresh look at news from a South Asian perspective. Gandhi, in an opinion piece published at the Mumbai launch, […]
Kids’ media consumption in Australia has increased over the past year, with their total spending power rising to A$1.8 billion (€1.2bn) annually, Cartoon Network’s annual research study into children and parents New Generations 2016 has found. The report revealed that TV ads are still the most effective for reaching children, with watching TV remaining the […]
Ooyala, a Telstra subsidiary and expert in premium video publishing, production workflow, analytics and monetisation, has introduced Ooyala AppStudio, its new turnkey OTT solution for innovative video providers to cost-effectively build and deploy comprehensive OTT app- and web-based video entertainment experiences. Focused on maximizing ROI for broadcasters, publishers and media companies taking their content over […]
Independent media advisory group Compact Media has launched a new division – Compact Tech – which provides a range of products and solutions to help film and TV companies manage their business and their assets with greater efficiency. Products and services range from Digital Asset Management (DAM), Marketing Asset Management (MAM), Client Portal Creation, Cyber […]
Eurosport is to bring tennis fans its best ever coverage of the US Open with more than 200 hours exclusively live as history maker Andy Murray, fresh of his second Olympic gold medal, targets back-to-back Grand Slams. All the action from August 29th will be shown live and exclusively on Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2 and […]
Alticast has become a member of the “Certified Widevine Implementation Partner Program,” a designation that is intended to expand content security options for pay-TV operators worldwide. As a modular DRM partner, Alticast’s AltiProtect Multi-DRM product can support Widevine DRM as one of several security solutions within a single infrastructure. AltiProtect enables a single point of […]
BabyTV, the award-winning baby and toddler channel from Fox Networks Group, delivered its best month yet in June, reaching #1 position among the Entertainment Genre and #1 among All People (excluding terrestrial) on top Indonesian platform PT MNC Sky Vision Tbk (MSKY) with their brand Indovision. Since it launched over a decade ago, BabyTV has […]
Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has launched an app for the smartwatch GEAR S2 with all information and updates on the Olympic Games. The app can be downloaded from the Galaxy Apps store and marks RTVE’s first involvement in smart wearables devices. At the same time, RTVE has enriched its added-value service for the Olympic Games […]