Parks Associates has published the results of its consumer research project Connected Consumer in Europe, which surveyed broadband households in the UK, Germany, Spain, and France to track adoption and future purchase plans of IoT, smart home, and connected entertainment solutions. The project found that approximately 9 per cent of these Western European broadband households […]
Media content distribution and IPTV specialist Vision247 has created a bespoke VoD screening platform designed to enable content distributors to share and stream media assets with partners and clients around the world securely and without the risk of piracy. Vision247 has created a technology that transcodes content at source before leaving a dedicated server, stamping […]
net-m, a specialist in payment solutions and mobile entertainment services, has partnered with African media and content provider WatchAfrica to launch the WatchAfrica app, an African mobile IPTV and VoD service, showcasing the service for the first time at the recent AfricaCom expo. The service is made possible by net-m’s Anyscreen service, which supports the […]
HBO has the most demanded originally-produced content from an SVoD provider according to a study by Parrot Analytics. The results were reached through weighing “demand multiples” such as video streaming, social media, and blogging, file-sharing, and wiki platforms. The most demanded show in the US was HBO’s Game of Thrones which attracted 28.3 million demand […]
Findings from cross-media consumption data technology and research firm Symphony Advanced Media (SymphonyAM) monitoring the autumn television season suggest that Millennials only watch live TV 30 per cent of the time, with an additional 30 per cent of their time spent viewing programmes via OTT, VoD beyond 3 and DVR platforms beyond 7. Additionally, SymphonyAM’s […]
Netflix has made it clear who is to blame for the technical failures that some Spaniards experience during live broadcast of Champions League football matches: Telefónica. Netflix is now encouraging Telefonica users to rise up against the company with demands for a better video quality transmission and appeal to the local consumers Associations to solve […]
The recent boom in SVoD services, driven by the launch of Netflix, Stan and Presto in Australia has been accompanied by a sharp rise in network data traffic according to a report prepared for Australia’s national broadband network (nbn) by consultancy firm Ovum. Average monthly download usage on the nbn network was 73GB in March […]
The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of broadcast and broadband services through connected TVs and set-top boxes, is pleased to announce the successful launch of Freeview Play last month. Freeview Play, a Freeview and Digital UK co-initiative, is built on the HbbTV 2.0 standard which was […]
TV continues to dominate millennials’ media lives. Despite the popularity and hype around video services such as YouTube and Netflix, data gathered from around the world show how popular TV remains with younger generations. To mark World Television Day on November 21st, TV organisations from around the world have brought together the latest statistics to […]
Google will help fund up to $1 million in legal fees for some content creators on YouTube who have received copyright takedown notices. It will step in if it feels their material is considered to be fair use. However the Web giant admitted that only a handful of people have been chosen to benefit from […]