According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Forecast and Service Adoption for 2013 to 2018, global Internet Protocol (IP) traffic will increase nearly three-fold over the next five years as
Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings is now officially a billionaire, according to a report by Forbes. Hastings started Netflix with Marc Randolph in 1997 and saw the company through its IPO in 2002. Hastings is also a board member at Facebook and spent five years on the board at Microsoft. During his tenure at […]
Internet entertainment streaming service Netflix has introduced a further feature to its Android app designed to make it easier to enjoy more TV shows and movies. Writing in the Netflix Corporate Blog, Rob Caruso director, engagement management and Francois Goldfain, engineering manager at Netflix said: “If you use Netflix on Playstation 3, our website or […]
Verizon Communications is threatening Netflix with legal action if the video streaming giant keeps on showing messages blaming the ISP for slow streaming. Verizon sent Netflix a letter on June 5th demanding that it cease and desist what it claims to be unfair business practices that threaten its broadband business. The letter comes soon after […]
The NYT reports that a journalist streaming a show on Netflix noticed an on-screen message from the company blaming Verizon for congestion that was slowing the stream. The journalist, Yuri Victor, a designer and developer at Vox Media, posted a message on Twitter on Tuesday with a screen shot of the Netflix message, which read: […]
Sky Go, BSkyB’s mobile TV service, has added ITV, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and CITV to its line-up for the first time. Arriving just in time for the 2014 World Cup, Sky customers will now be able to catch of ITV’s coverage of the tournament, whenever and wherever they are. ITV’s new drama channel, ITV Encore, […]
According to Sandy Howe, SVP, Global Marketing, ARRIS, a number of key findings from the firm’s recently-published Consumer Entertainment Index suggest that Service Providers should take advantage of additional monetisation opportunities based on their pay-TV subscribers’ entertainment consumption habits, expectations and needs. She told media delegates at ARRIS’s Video Leadership Forum that 30 per cent […]
TV and radio requests to BBC iPlayer were up 4 per cent year-on-year, with average daily requests at 8.9 million though April 2014. For the first time, TV requests from tablets contributed a higher proportion of requests (30 per cent) than computers (28 per cent). Mobiles and tablets combined contributed almost half of all TV […]
Amazon and CBS Studios have annoucned that sci-fi drama Extant, produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video in the UK. The first episode of Extant premieres on Prime Instant Video on July 10th, the day after the US premiere on CBS. New episodes will be available to stream […]
In a move that adds a consumer facing storefront to its AnyVU cloud service offering and extends its international reach and licensing capabilities, multiplatform video services provider Vubiquity has acquired UK-based FilmFlex Movies, one of the largest VoD and multiplatform providers outside the United States. FilmFlex, formerly a joint venture between Sony Pictures Television and […]