Channel 2 News, Israel’s leading news broadcaster, has partnered with Elastic Media, a media-tech company, to deliver their broadcasts to smartphone and tablet devices in a new, fully personalised, interactive viewing experience dubbed “Touchable TV”. Itay Filiba, Head of Digital Products at Channel 2 News, said: “We produce more than 6 different live TV shows […]
Viewers watched on average for 3 hours and 48 minutes per day per person in the first half of 2017 in the top 5 countries in Europe (France, Germany, UK, Spain and Italy), with TV unquestionably remaining the preferred screen, states the mid-year review from Eurodata TV Worldwide and TAPE Consultancy. However, the trend to […]
AR/VR has become a two speed market, with mobile AR set to have over twice the installed base at launch in 2017 than the entire AR/VR headset market by 2021. Apple ARKit, Google ARCore and Facebook Camera Effects platforms could have 900 million installed base by the end of 2018, with their launch changing the […]
Vodafone has launched Vodafone Video Pass in Spain, allowing subscribers to watch unlimited streamed TV without using their data allowance. The Video Pass is priced at €8 for 720p image resolution and €17 for HD TV content up to 1080p. With the Pass, subscribers will be able to watch all content from OTT services like […]
European media network, RTL, has launched its latest annual Total Video Key Facts – a television yearbook and interactive database reference on global TV trends. The main findings:
According to the Q2 2017 Global Video Index from video software and services provider Ooyala, video consumption on mobile devices stayed essentially flat in the second quarter of 2017. The quarter’s report also tracks global variances in video consumption including greater Q/Q growth for tablet viewing, mobile growth in global markets, as well as emerging […]
A study from GfK shows that Netflix was used by 3,942,000 people via a mobile, tablet or computer in the Netherlands in July – meaning approximately 27.5 per cent of the country’s population aged 13 and over have access to the SVoD service through a “non-TV” device. Netflix total reach is greater than that of […]
AT&T is launching the AT&T Primetime tablet, available from August 25th for the multiplay operator’s business and consumer customers to purchase for $10 (€8.47) a month for 20 months with an AT&T Instalment plan, or $29.99 with a two-year contract. This AT&T exclusive tablet is loaded with entertainment and productivity features like such as TV […]
Australia’s free-to-air DTT platform Freeview has launched a new TV campaign, the third in the series starring the popular Freeman family and their neighbours, the Joneses. The first spot, Freemans On The Go, demonstrates how easy it is to watch live and catch up TV wherever you are, on whichever device you choose via a […]
New crime drama series In The Dark was July’s top programme on BBC iPlayer. The first episode was made available from July 11th, and received 1.6 million requests over the rest of the month. The figures from the BBC also reveal that BBC iPlayer received 236 million requests for TV content in July, with viewing […]