Despite one billion video views on most days, YouTube hasn’t been popular with big corporate advertisers. Worldwide revenue from YouTube ads has fallen short of Google’s expectations this year, and is likely to total about $200 million for the full year, according to reports in the WSJ. YouTube is heading Google’s campaign to extend its […]
Almost a third of UK people under the age of 25 have watched TV via the internet, according to research from the IPA. The IPA Touchpoints report, which queried 5,400 people, revealed that 29 per cent of people between the ages of 15 and 25 had watched TV online, along with 18 per cent of […]
The Open IPTV Forum has added eleven new members at a recent meeting held at the headquarters of Telefónica in Madrid, and reports that the first release of its new specifications are close to completion. The new members are Fastweb, Swisscom, Access Company, BeeTV, Digital Fountain, Intel, InterTrust Technologies Corporation, Motorola, Opera Software, Thomson and […]
Mediaset-controlled Tele 5 has filed a lawsuit against YouTube accusing the video sharing service of violating intellectual property rights by posting video clips without permission. The TV network has urged YouTube to cease distributing its content on several occasions, according to the channel, but the company has ignored its claims arguing that it is only […]
Tech Mahindra, a solution provider in India focused on the global telecom industry, has entered into a strategic alliance with Microsoft to address its System Integration (SI) requirements for deployments of the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia software platform. Through the alliance, Tech Mahindra will provide deployment and integration services for new and existing Microsoft […]
Internet retail giant Amazon is preparing to launch a streaming video service in the next few weeks to extend its digital offerings. The Seattle-based company has been beefing up its digital media offerings in order to better compete with rivals such as Apple Inc, which currently dominates the category with the iTunes music download service.
The BBC Trust has told the public service broadcaster to slow the pace of its online developments because of competitive tensions with the commercial sector and “poor financial accountability”. In the first of its service reviews under the BBC's new Charter, the Trust, the corporation's governing body, said it would apply stronger scrutiny before authorising […]
Research from analyst firm Canalys indicates that, while the IPTV market will continue to gather momentum over the next four years, competition from other video delivery platforms will make it increasingly difficult for service providers to convince consumers to invest in services. Established cable, satellite and terrestrial digital TV offerings will continue to develop, and […]
Hulu, the video website owned by News Corp and NBC Universal, has confirmed its service will be distributed on seven new sites. Hulu videos will now be distributed on entertainment and social network sites TV.com, TVGuide.com, BuddyTV.com, Flixster.com, MyYearbook.com, Break.com and Zap2it.com.
IPTV faces an uphill struggle to penetrate the consumer market if it remains a stand-alone pay-TV service, according to Gartner. In an industry dominated by incumbent cable and satellite operators, as well as traditional terrestrial free-to-air network broadcasters, Gartner says that IPTV operators need to entice consumers with a range of bundled services, including IP-based […]