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Vodafone Romania trials 4G TV app

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 […]

July 15, 2016

Free BT Sport for EE mobile customers

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 […]

July 11, 2016By Colin Mann

Multiscreen study: Broadcasters need right content at right time

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 […]

June 24, 2016

Vice launching in 51 countries

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 […]

June 22, 2016

YouTube still most watched VoD service in UK

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 […]

June 21, 2016

Millennials watch more YouTube than TV on mobiles

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

June 17, 2016

Ooyala: Mobile viewing up 129% from 2014

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 […]

June 16, 2016

SKY merges with Vodafone NZ

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. […]

June 9, 2016By Colin Mann

ETSI group explores mobile and broadcast convergence

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 […]

May 31, 2016

Time launches INSTANT mobile platform

Time Inc has revealed the upcoming launch of INSTANT, a mobile-first, all-video platform featuring content about the lives and projects of digital celebrities as well as content created by digital celebrities exclusively for INSTANT. INSTANT will deliver fresh news, features and exclusives about and by “the new famous,” the digital artists of YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, […]

May 18, 2016