FreeWheel, a Comcast Company, has released its Q2 2018 Video Monetization Report (VMR), which tracks marketplace trends on premium video consumption and advertising across STB VoD, OTT, Desktop, Smartphone and Tablets. The report found that in Q2 2018, the majority of premium, digital video ad views (57 per cent) in the US were delivered to […]
In a joint presentation with Statista Research and Analytics at IBC last week, FFalcon Technology, a part of TCL Group, revealed that the TV market has entered a new generation, where smart TVs are set to penetrate the global industry via smart homes. With global smart TV shipments set to reach a total sales value […]
Business consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers says that South Africa’s MultiChoice is likely to launch a streaming video service to rival Amazon and Netflix in 2019. TV and video will be significant drivers of consumer revenue, PwC said, in specific reference to South Africa. “Internet video’s success continues to grab the headlines here but, in the short term […]
Twitch, the popular video game-streaming service and a subsidiary of Amazon, has been blocked in China. Twitch’s website has been unreachable from the country since September 20th and its app has also been removed from the local Apple App Store. Twitch has confirmed that it is being blocked but it has not said why Chinese […]
Disney’s Direct-to-Consumer and International (DTCI) segment has revealed that ESPN+, the direct-to-consumer subscription streaming service from DTCI in collaboration with ESPN, has surpassed one million paying subscribers in just over five months since its April 2018 launch in the US. “Reaching one million paid subscribers is an important milestone for any video subscription service, but […]
Netgem, a specialist in TV and Entertainment for over 20 years, has announced that Gibtelecom, the largest telco in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, has launched a new TV multiscreen digital entertainment service called Sofi earlier this summer, powered by Netgem OTT Cloud platform and devices, and Broadpeak, a provider of CDN and video […]
Global online TV episode and movie revenues will reach $129 billion (€110.2bn) in 2023; more than double the $53 billion recorded in 2017. About $16 billion will be added in 2018 alone. From the 138 countries covered in the Global OTT TV & Video Forecasts report from Digital TV Research, the top five will command […]
According to the Connected Devices and Media Consumption survey from IHS Markit, TV content discovery is at the heart of the battle among TV and video providers to convince consumers that their user experience is both easy to use and truly personalised. Even with
MobiTV, the app-based US pay-TV video streaming platform, has secured hosted streaming delivery rights from another 90 networks including Bloomberg Television, Discovery, MGM HD, Newsmax, Outside TV, Smithsonian Channel, Stingray Music, Univision, and others, bringing its total to more than 350 networks. In June of this year, MobiTV announced it was the first multi-tenant video […]
Motorsport Network is closing its Motorsport.tv linear channel at the end of the month. The brand will, however, continue to exist as an online streaming entity. The company confirmed the news in a statement, saying: “Our audience is shifting towards digital channels, and consuming more video content. In order to serve our committed global audience, […]