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 […]
Vodafone Romania has taken tentative steps into the country’s TV market by test-launching its ‘4G TV’ mobile app At no extra cost, the app gives Vodafone customers access to around 20 channels, both local and international, as well as on-demand services. The app also aggregates content from HBO Go and the local music streaming service […]
UK multi-play operator EE – part of the BT Group – has revealed an exclusive BT Sport App offer for new and existing EE pay monthly customers, providing them with six months free access to all the live sporting action available on BT Sport channels. From July 27th, EE customers on consumer and small business […]
While habits on connected and mobile devices are progressing, the video market is in a phase of fast mutation and restructuring according to Eurodata TV Worldwide. TV broadcasters now have to face new competitors searching for the best business model: User Generated Content platforms, international and local VoD actors and even social networks like Snapchat […]
Global youth brand Vice has unveiled an expansive slate of international deals designed to cement further its status as the world’s leading youth media brand, while making its multi-screen programming available to audiences across 51 territories. Vice Founder and CEO Shane Smith announced a series of digital, mobile and linear deals with a roster of […]
As the subscriber base of SVoD services continues to grow (9 million subscriptions in the UK, 91 million subscriptions in the US), social video platform YouTube still enjoys the biggest share of viewers in the UK, whilst subscription service Netflix takes the top slot in the US. Across the 10 countries in the research, 46 […]
Data from comScore and Barb for the first quarter of 2016 shows that YouTube reached more 18 to 34 year olds via mobile devices than any commercial TV channel in the UK. The Google-owned video portal has also conducted a YouGov
Ooyala, a Telstra subsidiary and specialist in video publishing, analytics and monetisation, has published its Q1 2016 Global Video Index drawing insights from more than 3.5 billion video analytic events per day from 220 million viewers across the world. The report this quarter compares engagement trends between subscription video services (SVoD) and advertising video services […]
In a move the pair say will create a leading integrated telecommunications and media group in New Zealand, pay-TV operator SKY and Vodafone New Zealand are to merge, with the Combined Group having the ability to offer New Zealand’s best entertainment content across all platforms and devices in a rapidly evolving media and telecommunications market. […]
ICT standards body ETSI has unveiled a new Industry Specification Group, the Mobile and Broadcast Convergence (MBC) ISG. ETSI MBC ISG will explore the deployment and business models of converged networks from the perspectives of all interested parties, including broadcasters, satellite, mobile and terrestrial broadcast network operators, content owners and providers, network infrastructure vendors and […]