Global TV sales remain stable and will stay that way, with Futuresource Consulting forecasting growth of less than one per cent CAGR between 2018 and 2024. This obscures the underlying turmoil as there has been a boost in sales across developed countries during the year, with consumers looking to improve the home viewing experience during […]
Kedoo Kids’ Super Toons TV channel has launched on Samsung Electronics’ free Smart TV video service Samsung TV plus. The Super Toons TV channel’s mission is to entertain children, from preschool to pre-teens, in a platform that’s safe for children and available for free. Programmes are curated by Kedoo Kids and made appropriate for ages […]
After protracted negotiations and in a move that largely completes the SVoD service’s footprint, streaming device and platform specialist Roku and WarnerMedia have agreed to bring HBO Max to the Roku platform. Starting December 17th, Roku users will be able to download HBO Max from the Roku channel store and subscribe directly on their Roku […]
Connected TV insights business App Science has launched with a flagship product – Insights Report – a dashboard for brands and their agencies to audit, plan and measure campaigns with proprietary insights from App Science’s device graph of 300 million mobile devices and 110 million connected TV households. App Science correlates consumer behaviour mobile data […]
Premium music video service Vevo has reached weekend daily highs of one billion global views, a record milestone, according to its annual year-end lookback. This year, Vevo has been hyper-focused on its distribution strategy and expansion into the home via an array of OTT partners, including Samsung TV Plus, VIZIO and Netrange. Through these partnerships, […]
OTT solutions provider Vewd has unveiled Vewd OpX (Operator Experience), a cloud-managed set-top box experience integrating pay-TV services with aggregated OTT content. Available for Linux, Android TV, Android Open Source Project (AOSP), and Reference Design Kit (RDK), Vewd OpX enables operators to deliver any TV content within a single unified user experience. Customer shipments of […]
Sky and Amazon have agreed a new long-term partnership that will see Prime Video launch on Sky and NOW TV devices across Europe from December 14th, while the NOW TV and Sky Ticket apps will also come to Fire TV devices. The partnership means customers in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy will now […]
TikTok is launching a TV service in Europe with Samsung. TikTok’s most-liked and viewed content will be available on a pre-installed app exclusive to Samsung’s most recent smart TVs. Content is organised into 12 categories including gaming and comedy and food. Users will not have to have a TikTok account to watch the service, which […]
The second tranche of Hub Entertainment Research’s Predicting the Pandemic research tracking the impact of the pandemic shows how it has accelerated the already well-established shift to online consumption of entertainment content, across multiple facets of the leisure economy. Highlights from the November findings: As many Americans moved indoors for the fall [autumn], large proportions […]
Extreme Reach has published its Q3 Video Benchmarks Report – an industry report outlining trends and ad performance metrics for impressions served from its AdBridge platform to CTV, desktop, and mobile devices for July through September. Key findings from the report include: CTV leads in the share of impressions by device: At 39 per cent, […]