IMS Research estimates that at the end of 2010, 13.2 per cent of the world’s digital pay-TV subscribers were requesting VOD content via their set-top box. The number of pay-TV households using VOD services is forecast to triple over the next five years, from 53.9 million at the end of 2010 to 157.3 million at […]
Warner Brothers will offer five additional movies for rent on social networking website Facebook. Warner Bros said the films on offer would be “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” “Inception,” “Life as We Know It” and “Yogi Bear.” Earlier this month, Warner Bros said it would make some […]
Two of the OTT and DVD service’s most important content providers have changed their distribution agreements with the company, reflecting growing anxiety about the pace of growth at the DVD subscription and movie streaming company. Showtime, the pay-TV service owned by CBS, this said it would remove all of its first-run programming from Netflix’s streaming […]
YouView has announced the names of the 29 organisations with which it is working closely to shape and test the processes for making content available via the platform. The content providers working with YouView are Blinkbox, Blinkx, BSkyB, Film4oD, Golant Media Ventures, Guardian News & Media, IndieMoviesOnline, LOVEFiLM, Pushbutton, Radioplayer, Stream UK, STV, Travel Channel, Tvinci, […]
Netflix is targeting mobile devices as its next big market says to Bill Holmes, vice-president of business development. Holmes told the IP&TV World Forum that mobile represented a huge market opportunity but the service would have to adapt significantly in terms of pricing and perception, as mobile was a much more personal media. Holmes also […]
Ralph Rivera, the BBC’s newly appointed head of digital media, has predicted that catch-up viewing would not surpass the 10 per cent mark by 2015. Speaking at the Guardian Media Festival the former AOL exec agreed with other contributors that the importance of mainstream linear TV would remain. On future media at the BBC he […]
Speaking at IP&TV World Forum this morning Johannes Larcher, SVP International with Hulu, revealed the company turned over $260 million in 2010 and is forecasting $450 million for 2011 with a substantial contribution from Hulu+, the new subscription service. Larcher said that in 2010 30 million US users streamed over 800 milion pieces of content […]
Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s largest cable operator has launched its VOD offering ‘Select Video’ in the cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. With this initial launch, approximately 2.3 million households can receive the VOD offer which currently includes 2,500 hours of Hollywood movies, Pay TV and Free TV content. More than 60 per cent of the […]
Ahead of this year’s MIPTV in Cannes early April, online TV broadcast platform FilmOn.com is finalising several major deals aimed at consolidating the company’s position as a platform streaming both existing TV stations and brand new channels created specifically for the platform. The online entertainment portal, which offers a service dubbed ‘virtual live cable television’ […]
Brightcove, the online video platform, has licensed Adobe Pass authentication and authorisation technology and has become a certified Adobe Pass Enablement Partner. Brightcove is using the technology to offer new TV Everywhere authorisation services to broadcasters, cable programming networks, and distributors to streamline their initiatives to provide on-demand access to TV content across both Adobe […]