Jason Friedlander, Director of Solutions Engineering for Verizon Digital Media Services, introduces their latest major enhancement; Live Events Manager. This application means any content provider – however large or small – can provide live streaming and can monitor and manage output from a simple dashboard that shows the pre and post encoding stream and the audience view. […]
Viewers are watching more content on mobile as viewing time moves closer to parity with fixed TV viewing, Ericsson’s latest ConsumerLab research. Revealed at MIPCOM, Ericsson’s latest study said the ratio between viewing on fixed screens and mobile screens is close to 60:40 this year compared to almost 70:30 in 2010. Anders Erlandsson, senior advisor, […]
Ooyala has published its Q2 2016 Global Video Index, drawing insights from more than 3.5 billion video analytic events per day from 220 million viewers across the world. This quarter, the report put specific focus on ‘power users’. Ooyala defined a “power user” as a customer who visited on more days each month — at […]
TVPlayer, the UK’s online TV platform with over one million viewers, has announced that its multiscreen service will be among the first streaming video platforms to be pre-installed on all new Samsung tablets. The complete rollout will be available on 24 variants of six tablet versions to over 700,000 devices in the UK over the […]
The global market for mobile TV is exceedingly fragmented and the top 10 players accounted for a mere 23.3 per cent in 2015, according to Transparency Market Research (TMR). These companies, namely
Huawei and Ovum, a global technology research and advisory firm, have jointly released the “The Evolution of Big Video – Examining telco transformation video opportunities”. This paper covers the current situation for telcos providing video services for the entertainment and communications markets, as well as vertical industry segments. By 2020, mobile video usage will have […]
Australian telco Optus is expanding its mobile entertainment offering, giving eligible postpaid mobile customers the ability to stream movies, TV and music without tapping into their monthly data allowance. “Our customers tell us they want the freedom to watch the latest TV show or listen to their favourite band, on the go,” said Tim Cowan, […]
Burst, the mobile video technology company that enables broadcasters, media companies, rights holders and brands to instantly deliver mobile video to broadcast, OTT and digital, has announced that Sinclair Broadcast Group has agreed to deploy the Burst platform for user-generated content and Burst On TV (BOTV). Plans call for the deployment of the Burst solution […]
This year will see mobile devices will overtake ‘fixed devices’ to become the main platform for viewing online video, according to Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2016. Consumers around the world will spend an average of 19.7 minutes a day viewing online videos on their mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), compared to 16.0 minutes on fixed […]
Video viewing on smartphones increased sharply during the first quarter, according to Nielsen’s new Comparable Metrics report. In a new report smartphone video had a cumulative audience of 110.1 million adults in the US, up from 85.4 million in the year-ago quarter. In the digital world that audience might be reported as unique users. Those […]