The number of US television homes is growing – and so is the TV audience. According to Nielsen’s 2014 Advance National TV Household Universe Estimate (UE), there are 115.6 million TV homes in the US, up 1.2 per cent from the 2012-2013 estimate of 114.2 million. Nielsen estimates that 294 million persons age 2 and […]
at800 is holding an extended trial to help understand the extent to which 4G at 800 MHz could disrupt Freeview. The trial begins in Brighton from mid-May. at800 is the organization tasked with ensuring viewers continue to receive Freeview when 4G mobile services at 800 MHz are launched later this year. Brighton has been selected […]
Nielsen is debuting a tool that will track online TV viewing. Nielsen Digital Program Ratings will primarily allow networks to track viewing of the shows that they stream on their own websites. Pilot partners include Fox, NBC, ABC, Univision, Discovery and A+E. AOL is the only online only video provider participating in the pilot. The […]
A group of Universities (UPM, UPV) and companies (Agile Content, Eumovil, Ericsson and Inmomatica) have joined forces to develop Immersive TV, a R&D project that allows viewers to naturally interact with the actions being broadcast and even participate in the scene. With a budget of €2.7 million and co-funded by the Ministry of Industry, Immersive […]
SecondSync, the social TV analytics company, has integrated overnight TV ratings from BARB, the industry standard audience measurement service, into its platform. The innovation means that for the first time broadcasters, programme-makers and advertisers can see the minute-by-minute relationship between social TV activity and audiences, and determine to what extent Twitter drives tune-in. The new […]
Digital TV Labs, specialists in digital media conformance tools, test services and professional services, has announced that it is now a DLNA accredited Independent Certification Vendor (ICV) for products wishing to comply with the increasingly popular home networking standard. Established in 2003 and having grown in importance since DLNA – Digital Living Network Alliance – […]
Kantar Media has secured a multi-year audience measurement contract in partnership with Tata Sky, one of India’s fastest growing DTH TV providers. The company will measure the behaviour and viewing habits of Tata Sky’s rapidly increasing number of pay TV subscribers. The service, launching later this year, will take full advantage of Kantar Media’s return […]
Witbe, the leading provider of quality management solutions for interactive services over any network, to any device, is launching at the NAB Show its new Analytics Solution dedicated to give service providers and content owners full visibility and control when delivering video and applications-based services to any screen, including set-top boxes, PCs, smartphones, tablets, connected […]
India’s Information & Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) says cable MSOs, now beginning to make progress with digitisation of its signals, must also fully embrace the obligatory encryption of signals (via Conditional Access). I&B is setting up a centralised monitoring system to check that MSOs are keeping their word. This is a major step forward in a […]
Crackle and comScore have announced an all-platform audience measurement deal for Sony Picture Television’s free ad-supported video streaming service, Crackle. This initiative will leverage comScore’s audience measurement techniques to produce unduplicated audience size and demographics across the entire Crackle entertainment network, which includes all screens and platforms – online, mobile/tablet, connected TV and game consoles. […]