English football fans can experience this weekend’s Premier League football clash between Chelsea and Arsenal live in Virtual Reality in four flagship EE stores in London, as part of a new BT Sport trial. BT Sport will film the game using Virtual Reality (VR) cameras and is working with LiveLike, a VR platform company that […]
Twitter and Bloomberg Media have announced a partnership to stream Bloomberg Television’s live broadcast of the 2016 US Presidential and Vice Presidential debates on Twitter. The agreement is an expansion of the partnership Twitter and Bloomberg Media announced in July to stream select Bloomberg Television programmes. Twitter will stream Bloomberg Television’s live broadcast of the […]
Acclaimed filmmaker Adam Curtis will premiere his new film, HyperNormalisation, on the BBC iPlayer on October 16th. HyperNormalisation tells the story of how we got to this strange time of great uncertainty and confusion – where those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed – and have no idea what to do. And, […]
Channel 4 will air the next Summer and Winter Paralympics following its well received coverage from Rio. A letter of intent signed with the International Paralympic Committee covers the 2018 Winter Paralympics in PyeongChang in South Korea, and the summer Games in Tokyo two years later, as well as the London 2017 Para Athletics Championships. […]
The QYOU, a curator of Internet video for the TV Everywhere market, has announced a linear channel deal with Play Poland to deliver its line-up of Internet content to subscribers of Play Poland’s recently launched OTT service, Play NOW. This deal marks the launch of The QYOU into the Polish market and is further expansion of […]
David Wells, Netflix chief finance officer, has said that the streaming giant is aiming for 50 per cent of its content to be original productions. Speaking at Goldman Sachs’ 25th Annual Communacopia Conference in New York, Wells said that going forward the company will be “pushing more and more” towards its goal of having half […]
An online survey conducted by charterbundledeals.com has confirmed that online streaming and VoD websites are not yet a danger to US cable TV subscriptions, as users are largely satisfied with the quality of content aired on pay-cable. The survey asked participants if they’re satisfied with the quality of programming on cable TV; 67 per cent […]
As part of the latest ‘Moments Worth Paying For’ campaign spearheaded by pro-copyright education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness, world-famous YouTube superstars KSI and Caspar Lee have released a short video to encourage audiences to spend their money on watching their comedy Laid in America. The exclusive 55” trailer features the two hugely […]
TVPlayer, the UK’s online TV platform with over one million viewers, has announced that its multiscreen service will be among the first streaming video platforms to be pre-installed on all new Samsung tablets. The complete rollout will be available on 24 variants of six tablet versions to over 700,000 devices in the UK over the […]
Broadpeak, a leading provider of CDN technologies and live VoD servers for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, today announced that Intigral, a leading provider of vido delivery solutions in the Middle East and North Africa region, has selected Broadpeak solutions to support the deployment of its CDN and video distribution platform. Through Broadpeak’s BkS300 […]