Customer experience systems and services specialist Amdocs has revealed the results of new independent research that explores North American viewers’ attitudes towards pay-TV providers and their OTT counterparts. The survey finds that
SNL Kagan has released its latest report looking at the streaming media player market. The remarkable growth of OTT video services is attracting attention to consumer electronics products that can efficiently support streaming media services. One of these products, the streaming media player, has experienced a significant growth spurt over the past few years. SNL […]
BBC iPlayer saw a record 320 million TV and radio requests in March, up 18 per cent year on year and breaking the previous high of 315 million requests set in January this year. For the first time ever, TV requests from tablets and PCs were on par, both constituting 29 per cent of all […]
VUDU, a subscription-free VoD service, and castLabs, a digital video technology and services company, have collaborated to bring VUDU’s collection of the latest movies and TV to Google’s Chromecast. Available immediately, this enables customers to tap into their personal device’s potential to send their VUDU content to their TV screens. With castLabs’ software, this has […]
Nagra, the Kudelski Group digital TV business, has announced that its multiscreen solution, Nagra MediaLive, is enabling over one million active devices for Canal+ Yomvi, the OTT offering of Canal+ Spain, a leading Nagra customer. This milestone marks a 182 per cent growth in usage over the last 12 months ended January 2014 of the […]
Netflix may not like its peering deal with Comcast, but now it is entering a similar partnership with Verizon. Netflix said: ‘We have reached an interconnect arrangement with Verizon that we hope will improve performance for our joint customers over the coming months.’ Netflix entered a paid peering deal with Comcast in February after subscribers […]
Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba Group and a private equity firm are to take an 18.5 per cent stake in Chinese online video firm Youku Tudou for approximately $1.22 billion to strengthen Alibaba Group’s stable of digital content offerings. Alibaba Group and Yunfeng Capital, a private equity fund co-founded by Alibaba Group’s Executive Chairman Jack Ma, […]
Jeffrey Katzenberg, Chief Executive of DreamWorks Animation, has suggested the availability window for feature films will reduce to as little as 17 days, and that a ‘pay-by-the-inch’ model will also emerge. Katzenberg made his comments during the Entrepreneurial Leadership in the Corporate World panel at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills. “I think the […]
Yahoo has unveiled two original TV series that will be shown on its website and mobile app, making the technology firm the latest entrant to the fast-growing market for digital video content. Yahoo said its first two original series will be comedies titled: Other Space and Sin City Saints. Following Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and Microsoft […]
In the week leading up to the Cable Show in Los Angeles, CEG TEK International, a provider of in-depth business intelligence and comprehensive anti-piracy solutions, tracked piracy rates of 175 hit shows on cable, broadcast, and OTT networks in the US. The resultant study – Top TV Show P2P Piracy Report – revealed that in […]