Marketers are increasingly spending time, money and creativity to reach their audiences in non-traditional ways. A 24/7 Wall St./Harris Poll on Social Media and Television has found that many Americans are participating in this type of interactions. Among online US adults, two in five say they have gone online or utilised social media to comment, […]
Warner Brothers will offer five additional movies for rent on social networking website Facebook. Warner Bros said the films on offer would be “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” “Inception,” “Life as We Know It” and “Yogi Bear.” Earlier this month, Warner Bros said it would make some […]
The live streaming of the India-South Africa match on ESPNStar.com has broken India’s online streaming record in India, with over 3 million streams delivered to over 1.5 million unique consumers on the match day on 12 March 2011. Through the first 42 matches, ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Free Live Streaming has received more than […]
Amino Technologies has secured a follow-on order to provide its hybrid/OTT technology to support Telecom Italia’s deployment of its Cubovision all-in-one multimedia broadband service. Launched in December 2010, Cubovision offers home TV access to a range of digital terrestrial TV channels, leading web TV sources, and pay-per-view films as well as personal content such as […]
Stepping into the year of 2011, the bloom in worldwide OTT market is breaking the traditional situation in TV content delivery, which was once monopolized by broadcaster and telecom operators. Improved policies and standards benefited the development of the whole OTT industry chain, and the industry is more open and rich in different countries and […]
Two of the OTT and DVD service’s most important content providers have changed their distribution agreements with the company, reflecting growing anxiety about the pace of growth at the DVD subscription and movie streaming company. Showtime, the pay-TV service owned by CBS, this said it would remove all of its first-run programming from Netflix’s streaming […]
YouView has announced the names of the 29 organisations with which it is working closely to shape and test the processes for making content available via the platform. The content providers working with YouView are Blinkbox, Blinkx, BSkyB, Film4oD, Golant Media Ventures, Guardian News & Media, IndieMoviesOnline, LOVEFiLM, Pushbutton, Radioplayer, Stream UK, STV, Travel Channel, Tvinci, […]
Adam Crozier, the ITV chief executive, revealed that ITV2 reality show The Only Way Is Essex gets as many viewers online as it does for its TV broadcast. He said almost half of those watching the show on TV are also using Facebook or Twitter at the same time. However, Crozier used the show as […]
Ahead of this year’s MIPTV in Cannes early April, online TV broadcast platform FilmOn.com is finalising several major deals aimed at consolidating the company’s position as a platform streaming both existing TV stations and brand new channels created specifically for the platform. The online entertainment portal, which offers a service dubbed ‘virtual live cable television’ […]
EchoStar Europe have unveilled their SlingLoaded HDS-600RS, a HD digital video recorder (DVR) to combine Freesat+ features with Sling Media’s place-shifting ability, enabling TV anywhere, on all popular smartphones and tablets. The SlingLoaded feature enables users to watch and manage their live and recorded TV remotely anytime, anywhere, via 3G or Wi-Fi, with no additional […]