The top 10 television service providers in the US lost 559,000 television customers between them in the first quarter of 2017, as reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index. That represents a quarterly subscriber reduction of 0.63 per cent, which is the largest loss seen so far. It compares to a loss of 162,000 for
The migration from satellite to IPTV has seen Telefónica’s pay-TV business report a 1.7 per cent decline in the number of global subscribers to 8.2 million in the first quarter of the year. In Spain, the fall has been even greater, with a decline of 3 per cent ending the quarter with 3.616 million subscribers, […]
Freeview Australia will launch a significant upgrade to its hybrid digital television service Freeview Plus platform in June 2017, offering a more simplified user experience and sophisticated look and feel for the catch-up service. The new platform will join the Freeview FV mobile app in Freeview’s suite of products that are designed to make watching […]
Limelight Networks, a global player in digital content delivery, has launched an offer to reduce online video re-buffer rates for new customers by 10 per cent or more. The limited-time offer is backed by a money-back guarantee and the company will match customers’ existing delivery pricing. “We know how critical performance is for our customers, […]
Western Europe will avoid the curse of cord-cutting – at least for the next five years, according to the Western Europe Pay TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. The Western European pay TV market is mature, but, unlike North America, it will still gain subscribers between 2016 and 2022. Although this only represents a […]
JW Player, a leading digital and mobile video platform and player company with customers ranging from individual bloggers to Fortune 500 companies, is the newest Opera TV Snap partner. Together, Opera TV Snap and JW Player will enable JW Players’ over two million supported websites to package online video channels into ready-to-run TV apps. “Opera TV […]
Technology firm Triple-C is launching SMART in partnership with Vonetize, the new IPTV service for the Israeli market, with STB solutions spcialist WeTek (www.wetek.com) providing customised Set-top boxes fully adapted to both Triple C’s network and Vonetize’s content distribution service. “This collaboration with Triple-C and Vonetize clearly conveys our vision and translates how bound and […]
At NAB 2017, IBM has revealed plans to roll out a Watson-enabled cloud service designed to help companies extract new insights from video with a level of analysis not previously possible. The service highlights IBM’s continued focus on combining artificial intelligence with the IBM Cloud to help media and entertainment companies make sense of unstructured […]
Wowza Media Systems, a specialist in streaming video, and Haivision, an expert in high performance video streaming, have announced the founding of the SRT Alliance and the open source availability of SRT, a video transport protocol to enable the delivery of high-quality and secure, low latency video across the public Internet. Despite advances in internet […]
You.i TV, a global player in video experience platforms, and Vimond, experts in the development of OTT video solutions, have announced Vimond’s entry into the You.i TV Partner Programme as part of a joint commitment to accelerate global availability of cross-platform video experiences. “Vimond’s customer base has been built on the strength of our tool […]