Atresmedia’s OTT service Atresplayer has been added to Apple TV claiming to be the first streaming service available on the app. Atresplayer distributes all Atresmedia’s TV channels – Antena 3, La Sexta, Neox, Nova, Mega and Atreseries – both on live and VoD, as well as TV series and original programmes (documentaries and even entertainment […]
AVoD service operator Crackle Plus, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company, has agreed a new collaboration with entertainment metadata and content ID provider Gracenote. With this agreement, Crackle Plus systems will use Gracenote entertainment metadata and unique Gracenote IDs to make Crackle, Popcornflix and Chicken Soup for the Soul streaming service titles more […]
M3, part of the National Media Group (NMG) holding, provider of online cinema services such as more.tv and CTC as well as the group’s TV channels online appearance, has selected XroadMedia, leading specialists in building innovative and ground-breaking content discovery and personalisation solutions, to enable advanced content discovery, recommendations and personalisation in their more.tv service. […]
Music video network Vevo has launched a number of holiday-themed channels on connected TVs (CTV) in the US and UK, available through New Year’s Eve. Vevo’s largest holiday TV lineup to date features carefully curated, 24-hour linear programming ranging from traditional Christmas music, such as Silent Night and O Holy Night, to family classics, such […]
Five major US-based platforms will control 53 per cent of the world’s 1.7 billion SVoD subscriptions by 2026, according to the SVOD Platform Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. That equates to a collective 910 million subscriptions by 2026; up from 585 million in 2021. Netflix will remain the largest player, adding 53 […]
UK media regulator Ofcom has set out the next steps in its work to ensure that the regulatory framework for media plurality in the UK remains fit for the modern news landscape. It has also published a report to the Secretary of State following its review of the current media ownership rules. Media plurality supports […]
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas has entered a Judgment and Injunction against ChitramTV, a popular South Asian pirate IPTV service. The Court found that ChitramTV wilfully infringed 207 registered copyrighted works and imposed the maximum statutory penalty of $150,000 (€132,567) per work, $31,050,000 in total. The Federal Court in […]
Although a number of sports have benefited from the arrival of OTT players and the introduction of direct-to-consumer services, the prospect of some of the leading properties, such as the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga, adopting pure D2C strategies remains unlikely, according to Jacopo Genovese, Senior Analyst at Ampere Analysis. Addressing […]
Sky and NBCUniversal have confirmed plans to roll out SVoD Peacock content across Sky territories, beginning with a soft launch in the UK and Ireland on November 16th. Included at no additional cost, Sky TV customers and NOW Entertainment Members in these markets will have early access to a new Peacock destination, featuring a catalogue […]
United States District Judge Eric R. Komitee has sentenced Aleksandr Zhukov to 10 years’ imprisonment for perpetrating a digital advertising fraud scheme through which the defendant and his co-conspirators stole more than $7 million (€6.13m) from US advertisers, publishers, platforms, and others in the US digital advertising industry. The federal courthouse in Brooklyn also ordered Zhukov […]