Satellite operator SES’s Board of Directors has approved a restructuring of SES’s go-to-market organisation model with the creation of two highly-focused business units, SES Video and SES Networks, focusing on the video- and data-centric segments in which SES operates. The new organisation, which will be implemented during the course of 2017, will gather all go-to-market […]
By 2021, more members of the global population will be using mobile phones (5.5 billion) than bank accounts (5.4 billion), running water (5.3 billion), or landlines (2.9 billion), according to the 11th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast (2016 to 2021). Strong growth in mobile users, smartphones and Internet of Things (IoT) […]
The video software market is expected to exceed $9 billion (€8.39bn) in revenue by 2021, according to new insights from critical information, analytics and solutions source IHS Markit. According to the firm, the atomisation of media distribution and the switch from hardware-based technology solutions to cloud implementations are key drivers for the $3 billion in […]
Video experience specialist Accedo and video app provider Digiflare are to merge, creating what they say will be the world’s leading video experience company. Accedo was founded in 2004 by Michael Lantz and Fredrik Andersson, and Toronto-based Digiflare was founded in 2008 by David George and Mano Kulasingam. Both companies have grown rapidly to be […]
Cloud services for video provider Brightcove has released Brightcove Social, which it says is the first video solution that enables organisations to manage their video presence across social networks from a single interface. Brightcove empowers marketers, enterprises, and media organisations to maximise the tremendous potential of social video. It does this by enabling teams to […]
Social media site Facebook surprised market analysts with above expected results “on all fronts” for Q3 according to investment bank Exane/BNP-Paribas. However, Facebook’s management, in an analysts call on November 2 said it was cautious about the company’s ad-revenue prospects this coming year. Facebook’s headline numbers were impressive, with revenues jumping 56 per cent, topping […]
Global OTT TV and video revenues [for 100 countries – up from 64 in the previous edition] will reach $64.78 billion (€58.7bn) in 2021; a massive increase from $4.47 billion in 2010 and $29.41 billion in 2015. From the $35.37 billion extra revenues between 2015 and 2021, Asia Pacific will contribute $12.65 billion, Western Europe […]
Facebook could be all video and mobile in five years, according to Nicola Mendelsohn, vice president for Facebook in Europe Asked at Fortune‘s Most Powerful Women International Summit in London to predict where Facebook would be in a half decade in terms of mobile and video, Mendelsohn said the social network would “definitely” be mobile, […]
Cross-platform video analytics and intelligence software provider Tubular has raised $10 million in financing led by Marker LLC, bringing its total funding to date to $31 million. Previous financing rounds were raised from FirstMark Capital, Canaan Partners, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, SV Angel, and others. “Our goal since the beginning has been to help brands and […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) is set to overtake mobile phones as the largest category of connected device by 2018. According to the latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report. Between 2015 and 2021, the number of IoT connected devices is expected to grow 23 per cent annually, of which cellular IoT is forecast to […]