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Portable Media

EE offers Recordings To Go

UK multi-play operator EE – now part of BT – has unveiled Recordings To Go, a feature designed to set new standards in how consumers access and watch the TV they love. Claiming a UK first, EE says that TV lovers can select content from any of EE TV’s 70+ free-to-view channels to record and […]

March 30, 2016By Colin Mann

Report: 70% US consumers binge watch

Has America become a marathon nation when it comes to video content consumption? Indications point to “yes”. Seventy per cent of US consumers now binge watch an average of five episodes at a time, and almost one-third (31 per cent) binge on a weekly basis according to Deloitte’s 10th Digital Democracy Survey. In addition to […]

March 24, 2016

Adobe enhances TV personalisation

Recognising consumers’ desire to view content in alternative ways to traditional TV, digital experience specialist Adobe has revealed an end-to-end offering with Adobe Primetime that extends the solution to help drive audience acquisition, engagement and monetisation across every screen and platform. The new offering delivers more personalised TV and ad experiences directly to consumers via […]

March 22, 2016

Study: Films, TV shows increasingly digitally-accessible

An SNL Kagan study on behalf of the MPAA looking at the availability popular film and TV titles on legal online platforms in the US has found that a significant majority of premium TV series were digitally available on at least one of the online services that were reviewed, including online VoD and TV Everywhere […]

March 21, 2016

British screen entertainment industry shares insights

Leaders from across the UK home entertainment industry gathered in London for the annual Insight Forum, from the newly-rebranded British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE). The event – Driving the Video Category Forward – was produced in association with the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). Previously known as the British Video Association (BVA), the British Association […]

March 18, 2016By Colin Mann

British video industry trade body rebrands

Reflecting the evolving video market, the British Video Association (BVA) – which has a proud heritage representing the interests of publishers and rights-owners of pre-recorded filmed entertainment for the past 35 years – has unveiled its rebrand and positioning to become the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE). Explaining the rebrand – unveiled at the […]

March 17, 2016By Colin Mann

Video viewing drives phablet sales

Enhanced media and productivity drive phablet owners to buy devices with larger screens.  Findings in a report from the Mobile Device UX (MDX) group at Strategy Analytics showed that the main drivers of purchasing phablet sized devices (5.5”+) are text visibility, viewing media (especially video), web browsing and productivity. However, consumers find that there are […]

March 16, 2016

Portable devices now 46% of all online viewing

Ooyala has released its Q4 2015 Global Video Index, showing the total number of programmatic transactions increased 160 per cent since Q3 2015. Further, the report highlights video consumption trends throughout Asia-Pacific (APAC), as five of the 15 APAC countries analysed in the report usurp the global average of mobile video viewing, specifically on tablets. […]

March 15, 2016

65% broadband users engage with second-screen

Digital media research from Parks Associates finds 65 per cent of US broadband households engage in at least one second-second screen activity on at least a monthly basis. The research finds the most common activity is to search for information about the programme being watched. “Most consumers favour a passive second-screen experience that

March 11, 2016

Japan: Mobile TV viewing booms

Japan’s already mobile-centric consumers increasingly prefer mobile devices over other digital means to watch TV and subscription digital services. According to study by Nielsen NetRatings Japan, the country had 5.32 million smartphone viewers of VoD content in November 2015. This is in comparison to just 1.39 million Japanese viewers who watched such content via desktop […]

March 11, 2016