Anti-fraud and geolocation solutions provider GeoComply Solutions has attracted sports streaming and entertainment platform DAZN as a new client, utilising GeoGuard, which provides advanced protection against usage of VPNs, Tors, Proxies, and other advanced location spoofing techniques. With over 20 million premium paying subscribers across 200 markets, DAZN’s business model depends on ensuring price differentiation […]
Video streaming infrastructure provider Bitmovin has confirmed that RÚV, Iceland’s public broadcaster, has chosen to deploy the Bitmovin Player and Analytics to elevate the viewing experience for its audience to guarantee quality playback on the most extensive range of devices available to consumers and monitor and finetune the performance of each stream. RÚV is one […]
Samsung Electronics has added OTT service FIFA+ to Samsung TV Plus as part of the continued growth of the brand’s free-access sports offering for Samsung customers. The FIFA+ FAST channel on Samsung TV Plus will feature an offering of original documentaries, archive footage, and highlights from previous Men’s and Women’s games, building upon the existing […]
Video technology specialist MediaKind has unveiled MK/IO, describing it as a complete streaming solution built on Microsoft Azure that blends video quality and high reliability with the quality of experience enjoyed by tens of millions of viewers each week. MK/IO offers a video streaming canvas for app developers, video platforms, and anyone desiring to improve […]
The number of unique users of SVoD platforms in Italy was 15.3 million in March 2023, stable compared to the previous month, but down from 16.7 million in the same month in 2022. A report by Italy’s National Communications Authority (AgCom), shows that Netflix maintained the leadership position with an average of 8.9 million unique […]
GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, has revealed the findings of its Europe Digital Audio Advertising Report 2023 produced by GroupM Nexus in partnership with advertising industry trade body IAB Europe. The report found two-thirds (66 per cent) of buyers plan to invest more in audio in the next 12 months. The report is based on […]
According to the fifth annual edition of Hub Entertainment Research’s Evolution of the TV Set study, US viewers’ habits are evolving along with the TV sets they use to watch. Not only are more consumers using the built-in connectivity of smart TVs to watch video, but half of smart TV owners say they use their […]
In an increasingly fragmentated streaming ecosystem, US consumers are leaning on curated collections and hubs to find content based on a specific theme, according to the new State of Media, Entertainment and Tech: Viewing Behaviors 2023 report from Horowitz Research. Most streamers say they value having these curated collections/hubs as part of their streaming services, […]
Social media platforms, websites and services such as advertising display networks will have to take tougher action to stop children seeing age-restricted adverts for products such as alcohol or gambling. Fake celebrity scams and pop-up malware from hackers will also be clamped down on as part of new rules to make advertising regulation fit for […]
Fans of cricket and those new to the sport have the opportunity to see top international stars and homegrown Canadian talent as Global T20 Canada and CBC Sports confirmed that CBC Sports is the exclusive Canadian broadcast and streaming home of the third edition of Global T20 Canada, North America’s first professional Twenty20 cricket league. […]