Netflix is negotiating with Orange Spain and Regional cable companies Euskaltel-R and Telecable to integrate its service into their pay TV platforms to extend its presence throughout the Spanish pay market. Netflix already has a non-exclusive distribution agreement with Vodafone which is offering the service free of charge for six months to its subscribers. With […]
Sony has formed a partnership with TV platform YouView that will put its services in Sony Bravia televisions. YouView on Sony Bravia Android connected televisions will give access to catch-up services including BBC iPlayer, All 4, ITV Player and Demand 5. John Anderson, Sony UK and Ireland country head, said, “YouView was the natural choice […]
Parks Associates research finds 45 per cent of Western European broadband households own a smart TV, with the highest percentage in Germany, where over 50 per cent of broadband households have this Internet-connected CE device. “Europe has served as an early market for new online video services,” said Brett Sappington, Director, Research, Parks Associates. “As […]
Australian operator Telstra has unveiled the new Telstra TV streaming device which will be available for purchase by Telstra customers from October 27th. Telstra describes the device as an “easy to use” streaming player that allows Telstra home broadband customers to watch the most popular streaming services, rent the latest blockbuster films from BigPond Movies […]
The majority of advertisers (78 per cent) have already leveraged some form of advanced TV in their marketing efforts, according to the findings of Advanced TV: Ad Buyer Perceptions, a survey of 255 brand and agency decision-makers published by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and its Digital Video Center of Excellence. The survey, conducted by […]
Announced in July 2015 with the aim of providing an alternative pay-TV option to Sky, BT TV and Virgin Media, UK over-the-top television platform TVPlayer is commercially launching its low-cost subscription service TVPlayer Plus, which offers premium TV channels including Discovery Channel, TLC, British Eurosport, Cartoon Network, HISTORY, Lifetime, Gold and Sony Movie channel for […]
Amazon has revealed it will stop selling media-streaming devices from Google and Apple that aren’t easily compatible with its Prime Video streaming service. The online retail giant sent an email to its marketplace sellers that it will stop selling Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast since those devices don’t “interact well” with Prime Video. No new […]
Amazon has confirmed it is launching its Fire TV family of devices in Japan—Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, which it says gives easy and instant access to thousands of movies and TV shows from Hulu, Prime Video, GYAO!, Netflix, Amazon Video, YouTube.com, Niconico, Video Market, and more. “Tiny devices, high performance, tons of […]
The popularity of OTT SVoD has influenced the increase of connected media devices in consumers’ homes. In turn, connected media devices continue to change consumers’ TV/video viewing behaviour by bringing a variety of sources of media and entertainment to the larger screen. From family TV night via broadcastTV, to binge watching and content stacking via […]
UK subscription-free satellite TV service Freesat, and global consumer electronics manufacturer LG Electronics (LG) have struck a strategic partnership to provide the Freesat service on LG’s new and existing satellite enabled Smart TVs. LG will launch Freesat channels on the new LF650 and LF630 TVs, in screen sizes ranging from 32” to 55” and fully […]