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Spain’s ONO goes OTT

Spain’s largest cable company ONO has launched an Internet TV service, branded ‘ONO TV online’, offering up to 40 TV channels and VoD content. Initially, the service is available on PCs and Apple Mac and iPad devices with plans to launch it on mobile phones and Android tablets in the near future. With this move, […]

December 17, 2013From David Del Valle in Madrid

$8m additional funding for iROKOtv

iROKOtv, the Africa-based movie platform for Nigerian movies, has announced a funding round of $8 million, led by existing investor Tiger Global, with further participation from Sweden-based Kinnevik and introducing new investor to this round, US-based Rise Capital. This brings the total raised to $21 million. To-date, the capital raised by iROKOtv has been used […]

December 17, 2013

Canal Digital Kabel launches VoD from Espial

Norway’s largest Cable Operator, Canal Digital Kabel has selected Espial’s video delivery platform, Espial MediaBase, to power their advanced IP video services like video-on-demand and time-shift TV. Canal Digital Kabel has recently launched their T-WE service which will be rolled out nationally to over 400,000 digital cable subscriber households. “We have a distributed customer base, […]

December 17, 2013

Breaking Bad spin-off on Netflix

Netflix and Sony Pictures Television have revealed that Better Call Saul, the highly-anticipated spin-off of Breaking Bad, will be available exclusively to streaming members in Europe and Latin America shortly after its airing in the US, beginning in 2014. In the US and Canada, the complete first series will be available to Netflix members after […]

December 16, 2013

UPC Romania launches HBO GO

UPC subscribers in Romania can now access over 1500 hours of HBO premium content from HBO Romania (HBO TV series, HBO original productions, films, documentaries and special programming), on PC, smart TV, laptop, tablets or smartphones. Every week, the online platform will get an additional 30 hours of new video content which the subscribers can […]

December 16, 2013

Sky Deutschland launches Sky Snap

Sky Deutschland is expanding its on demand offering with the launch of Snap. This new online media library offers thousands of titles, from complete season box-sets of award-winning series, popular shows from the HBO library, blockbuster movies and an selection of children’s programmes, including exclusive highlights from the world of Disney. The full range of […]

December 13, 2013

FindAnyFilm.com adds PlaystationStore API

Movie search website FindAnyFilm has become the first external partner to use the Playstation Store API, adding another legal point of purchase for consumers to the service but also extending the accessibility for in home viewing. FindAnyFilm.com aggregates film availability across all formats, allowing film fans to search for titles across localised cinema listings, comprehensive […]

December 13, 2013By Colin Mann

Opera brings Sony LIV and BIGFlix to Bravia

Sony and Opera Software have confirmed the launch of two new Indian-entertainment apps in the Opera TV Store for Sony Bravia Internet TVs. These new apps are Sony LIV, Multi-Screen Media’s (Sony Entertainment Network) VoD service, and BIGFlix, which is India’s leading movie-on-demand service by Reliance ADAG. The Sony LIV app offers 18 years of […]

December 12, 2013

133% surge in mobile and tablet video views

Ooyala has released its Q3 2013 Global Video Index, revealing distinct patterns in how viewers consume video across devices. While mobile viewing levels off in Q3 due to seasonal factors, the overall share of mobile and tablet video views increased by 74 per cent since January. Furthermore, mobile and tablet video plays have more than […]

December 11, 2013

CBS: ‘We want ad dollars for every eyeball’

TV is increasingly watched on catch up long after shows originally air, and broadcasters are trying to get paid for more of those views. Leslie Moonves CEO of CBS told the UBS Global Media Conference in New York  that advertisers are increasingly willing to pay for those audience members who watch via who watch via […]

December 11, 2013