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Study: High potential for OTT in Taiwan

Brightcove, a provider of cloud services for video, has released findings from its market study, Taiwan OTT Television Research Report 2018, in partnership with YouGov, an international data and analytics group, and Cleeng, the video eCommerce platform. Based on an online survey with 950 respondents, the study highlighted trends in video consumption, preferences towards cable […]

October 30, 2018

Insight TV‘s 4K content streams on Windows devices

Insight TV, the 4K broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, has announced that its content is now available to stream on all Universal Windows Platform (UWP) devices. Insight TV has made its content available to Windows users by creating a Windows Store Application and optimised for the latest Intel Core processors. “We’re really excited […]

October 30, 2018

Australia: ABC multi-platform success for Invictus Games

To date, ABC’s coverage of the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 on the ABC main channel and ABC NEWS has reached 3.9 million people in Australia across the 5 Capital Cities, representing 23 per cent of the metro population. Michael Mason, Director- Regional and Local, said, “Australians have connected strongly with the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 […]

October 30, 2018

ESPN Player tips off NCAA Basketball season

ESPN Player will bring full coverage of the 2018/19 NCAA Basketball season to fans in EMEA. The live and on-demand sports streaming service will give subscribers the opportunity to watch more than 2,000 top college basketball games on computers, tablets and mobile devices. The app also allows fans to stream content to a big screen […]

October 30, 2018

Synamedia opens for business

Synamedia, the renamed NDS division that was acquired by Cisco, is back in independent hands. Financed by global investment firm Permira, the buyout from Cisco’s Service Provider Video Software Solutions, has completed. Financial terms of the deal were not released. Synamedia’s portfolio of over 200 pay-TV and media customers includes AT&T, Astro, beIN, Bharti Airtel, […]

October 29, 2018By Chris Forrester

Vimeo, LinkedIn integration

Ad-free open video platform Vimeo, has agreed a product integration with LinkedIn that will enable broader and more effective distribution from the video platform to the professional network. Anyone using video as a professional communications tool can now natively publish videos with a single click from their Vimeo account to their LinkedIn Company Page as […]

October 29, 2018

Denmark: DR selects Massive to upgrade OTT

DR, Denmark’s national public service broadcaster, has selected Massive, the specialist UX vendor for the OTT industry, to overhaul its OTT streaming service. The OTT service, branded DRTV, has been redesigned from the ground up to refresh its core offering for consumers across the country. The service is powered by Massive’s content delivery and user […]

October 29, 2018

Eleven Sports’ FA blackout strategy questioned

In the wake of the controversy around Eleven Sports’ intentional breach of the English Football Association’s (FA) longstanding blackout restriction on UK broadcasters, which was subsequently rescinded, geolocation-based security and digital content protection specialist GeoGuard has put the blackout to the test in terms of seeing how easy (or hard) it would be to circumvent […]

October 26, 2018By Colin Mann

SpotX, Syncbak drive local broadcast revenue growth

Video advertising and monetisation platform SpotX has inked a deal with Syncbak, a company that created the technology that powers live OTT, to increase revenue for local broadcasters. As a result of the partnership, SpotX is now connected with Syncbak’s proprietary dynamic ad insertion (DAI) solution, AdSync, and content owners and creators using Syncbak’s platforms, […]

October 26, 2018

FOX Nation set for Nov 27th launch

FOX News will debut the new on-demand subscription-based service FOX Nation on November 27th. The service will be priced at $5.99 a month or $64.99 per year. Additionally, FOX Nation will present an exclusive pre-sale initiative for consumers to become founding members of the service by purchasing limited edition packages beginning Sunday October 28th, 30 […]

October 26, 2018