Broadpeak, a provider of CDN and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, has announced that Ultravision, a pay-TV operator in Mexico, has selected Broadpeak solutions to power its new IPTV multiscreen service. Ultravision will rely on Broadpeak’s BkM100 video delivery manager, BkS400 HTTP video cache servers, and BkS350 origin packager. By […]
Western European TV revenues will reach $50 billion (€43.4bn) by 2023; up from $39 billion in 2017, according to the Western Europe TV Outlook report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. OTT revenues for TV episodes and movies (including AVoD) will more than double from $10 billion to $23 billion. This will push OTT’s share of […]
The Digital Production Partnership (DPP), the media industry’s international business network, released a new report to its Members today about discussions held by 20 senior leaders at IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) on the future of video advertising. The report explores the challenges to the advertising model around video content as both advertising and video move […]
Digital piracy data analysis specialist MUSO has launched its Piracy by Industry Dashboard, which will give trade bodies and government-level organisations access to month-by-month piracy data across all their industries. This rolling insight will allow trade bodies to gain a more accurate view of piracy and enable them to regularly assess the effectiveness of their […]
TF1’s Multi Channel Network (MCN), Studio71 France, now registers an average 700 million views per month, one year after its launch, and has doubled its audience in the same period. Born from the alliance with the ProSiebenSat.1 Group’s international network, in which TF1 owns 6.1 per cent, Studio71 France aggregates the audiences of Studio71’s YouTube […]
Earlier this week the European Parliament’s laid out new rules for audiovisual services. Equity analysts at investment bank Exane/BNP say that the important 30 per cent oquota rule will impact all broadcasters including OTT players. The bank says: “Designed to support the diversity of the European audiovisual sector, the new regulation will apply to both […]
Research from audience demand measurement specialist Parrot Analytics has found that production house Gaumont’s hit drama series Narcos currently ranks as the fifth most in-demand digital original series in the world for 2018. In addition, anticipation for the upcoming fourth season of the drama series is driving demand beyond that of any previous season’s debut. Three successful […]
Some 55 per cent of US households subscribe to at least one streaming service, according to findings from Deloitte, and ESPN+ is the latest example of the rising popularity of OTT, having garnered over 1 million subscribers within the first five months. But many of these apps experience an unusually high churn rate, according to […]
The emergence of live-content offerings has the potential to serve as a major differentiator for survival in the crowded streaming market, yet more than one in four (27 per cent) of US adults who use a streaming service don’t think ‘live’ is worth paying for yet due to consistently poor streaming quality, according to findings […]
Independent research company Childwise has found that access to connected devices (e.g., tablet, phone, PC, laptop) has grown this year among UK children under five after two years of little change. The latest figures from the independent Childwise Monitor Preschool Report 2018 also show that pre-schoolers now spend an increasing amount of their day watching […]