BSkyB has revealed that its Sky 1 travelogue programme The Moaning of Life, featuring television personality Karl Pilkington has become the biggest home-grown show on Sky 1 so far this year, as well as generating record On Demand and Sky Go viewing figures. Writing in the Sky Views blog, Stuart Murphy, Director, Entertainment Channels, notes […]
Decipher’s latest VoD Audit reveals YouView is now the largest catch-up TV provider in the UK, growing by 24 per cent to offer 2,677 assets. This gives it the lead over Sky by 85 assets with the satellite provider’s catch-up service totalling 2,592 assets, reflecting 11 per cent growth since June. Importantly however, Sky’s claims […]
Findings from SNL Kagan unit Multimedia Research Group (MRG) suggest that the OTT SvoD sector is set to record significant growth up to 2017, with North America the most developed market. The company’s report – Worldwide Over-the-Top Subscription Video on Demand Market – notes that
YOU On Demand the first national VoD platform in China, has announced that C Media Limited, a China-based mobile video service provider, has raised its strategic investment in YOU On Demand, increasing its present stake to $6 million with a $2 million Convertible Bridge Note financing. The Bridge Note would convert to Preferred Stock upon […]
Amazon has revealed that two of its original series Alpha House and Betas are coming back to Amazon Prime Instant Video. The first three episodes of each show will be available to all Amazon customers for free via Amazon Instant Video on Kindle Fire, iPad, iPhone, Roku, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and Wii U, […]
HD+, SES Astra’s German DTH platform, has reported 1,280,783 paying homes as of September 30th 2013, a growth of 35 per cent for the year. The total number of homes receiving the HD+ service has now reached 2.68 million, although 1.4 million are still in a free 1-year trial period. HD+ added 87,899 subscribers in […]
Knetik Media, a trans media platform company with expertise in over-the-top video, new media and gaming, is partnering with the owner of a major content library to launch a direct to consumer video on-demand service based on a collection of classic Hollywood films, television shows and music videos. Working with this private content library, Knetik […]
Sky and UKTV have extended their long-term partnership with a new multi-year agreement that will see UKTV’s network of pay-TV channels made available across Sky’s full range of TV products for the first time. The new multi-platform agreement further expands UKTV’s footprint in the British broadcasting market, which currently sees the network reach over 42 […]
Video-on-demand streaming service Wuaki.tv is partnering with UK commercial broadcaster ITV in a deal that will see hundreds of hours of fresh content added to Wuaki.tv’s UK service and made available to stream on-demand. Wuaki.tv users now have access to an extensive catalogue of TV series and movies from ITV, including primetime drama and comedy […]
Wuaki.tv has announced a partnership with Panasonic that makes the Wuaki.tv service available directly through Panasonic Smart TVs, bringing a hybrid streaming service to the living room. Panasonic Smart TV users can now access Wuaki.tv’s catalogue of quality movies and TV shows directly through a dedicated app on their TV, allowing them to browse, rent […]