Advanced Television

Broadcast

DPP: “Online challenges traditional programme-making”

The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) has announced the launch of a report from its latest Meet The event, Meet the Online Pioneers, sponsored by DPP Member company CenturyLink. Bringing together experts from the world of online content, the event explored the production of premium content for online audiences. “There are fewer boundaries around online content […]

June 20, 2017

Sky Italia wins UEFA rights deal

Hot on the heels of its German counterpart’s success, Sky Italia has secured exclusive live rights to all UEFA Champions League and Europa League matches from the 2018/19 season through to 2020/21, significantly strengthening Sky’s position as the leading sports content provider in Italy. The rights had previously been held by Mediaset. Sky has acquired […]

June 15, 2017

Survey: 53% US pay-TV subs don’t care about live sports

During a 3-day period in May 2017, CutCableToday conducted an online survey of 753 random US TV viewers through SurveyMonkey. The goal was to find out how TV consumers feel about sports programming on a number of different levels. The multiple choice questions asked were:

June 15, 2017

Long-form video most popular regardless of screen size

Ooyala has released its Q1 2017 Global Video Index, revealing, for the first time, long-form content represents the majority of time spent watching video on every screen. This quarter’s report also tracks variances in video consumption between the East and West coasts of the US, the continued growth of mobile, as well as emerging trends […]

June 14, 2017

LatAm set for pay-TV growth

Research from the Pay-TV Innovation Forum 2017 – a global research programme for senior pay-TV executives that examines the state of pay-TV innovations and strategies that will drive the next phase of growth for pay-TV operators – in TV, OTT and adjacent businesses, suggests that Latin America will see substantial pay-TV growth, driven by economic […]

June 14, 2017

UK programmes majority of EU TV content on Netflix, iTunes

The main European countries of origin for EU 28 TV content in Netflix’s catalogues are the UK with 160 titles (or 44 per cent of the total EU28 TV titles available in the 8 Netflix catalogues studied), France with 72 titles (20 per cent) and Germany with 52 titles (14 per cent). Together, these three […]

June 14, 2017

Spain: Orange TV adds five channels

France Telecom-owned Orange TV is adding five new TV channels to its entertainment pay-TV offer in Spain: Sundance TV HD, Dark HD, Nick Jr, MTV HD and MTV Live HD. Subscribers can view these channels without paying any additional fees. With these new additions,  Orange strengthens its cinema and TV series content and music and […]

June 14, 2017From David Del Valle in Madrid

Group IMD partners with 4C

4C Insights, a data science and media technology company, has partnered with global advertising workflow and delivery company, Group IMD, to enable advertisers around the world to instantly track and optimise TV campaigns delivered via the IMD Cloud platform. By combining Group IMD’s revolutionary Video Ad Delivery platform with 4C TV Analytics, users of IMD […]

June 14, 2017

Limelight: Consumer preferences shift to digital content

Consumers worldwide increasingly depend on smartphones to access digital content and tend to go online to purchase video games, movies and books, according to the latest State of Digital Downloads research report – based on a survey of 3,500 consumers ranging in age, gender, and education in France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, the UK, and […]

June 13, 2017

Entertainment giants form anti-piracy alliance

Thirty leading content creators and on-demand entertainment companies from around the world have launched the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market for creative content and reducing online piracy. The worldwide members of ACE are Amazon, AMC Networks, BBC Worldwide, Bell Canada and Bell Media, Canal+ […]

June 13, 2017By Colin Mann