Pakistan’s government has banned access to the video-clip website YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies posted on the site. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told the country’s 70 Internet service providers that the popular website would be blocked until further notice. The banning temporarily brought the site down in some other areas. Pakistan is not the only […]

SecureMedia, player in content protection software for secure video and multimedia delivery over IP networks, has confirmed that Vodafone Iceland has implemented and deployed the Encryptonite ONE System, protecting its next generation end-to-end IPTV offering. Vodafone Iceland offers mobile, fixed-line, FTTH and ADSL/ Internet services to individuals and companies throughout the country. Adding to this […]

From David Del Valle in Madrid Telefonica’s IPTV service Imagenio has been made available to a potential reach of more than 5 million homes in more than 565 cities throughout Spain with more than 10,000 inhabitants, according to the company. The service has surpassed the 500,000 subscriber mark and has plans to reach 1 million […]

Software services firm Goldstone has launched Internet protocol IPTV services in Thailand in partnership with Synap Media. The company has also signed IPTV distribution agreements for France, Belgium, Spain, Morocco and Malaysia. It offers IPTV services in India with state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. “The focus for the IPTV services in Thailand would be on […]

SecureMedia, provider of software for secure video and multimedia delivery over IP networks, has confirmed that that Panamanian telecommunications operator, CTV Telecom, has incorporated the Encryptonite ONE System to protect its IPTV offering, the first deployment in Central America. CTV has installed an advanced, optical fibre-based IPTV digital platform featuring triple play and more, first […]

Google launched a new advertising technology that will allow publishers to incorporate text ads into online videos. The launch marks the search group's most ambitious attempt yet to make money by selling ads that appear inside video clips. Under the new system, advertisers will pay to have their messages appear inside online videos across the […]

An IDC study of consumer online behaviour found that the Internet is the medium on which online users spend the most time (32.7 hours/week). This is equivalent to almost half of the total time spent each week using all media (70.6 hours), almost twice as much time as spent watching television (16.4 hours), and more […]

NBC Universal has revealed will stream full episodes of old TV shows, including “The A-Team”, “Buck Rogers” and “Kojak,” on its websites. Beginning this month, the shows will be available on NBC.com and on network-owned niche sites SciFi.com, ChillerTV.com and SleuthChannel.com. The content also will be available on Hulu, the online video joint venture that […]

Over 17 million programmes have been streamed or downloaded on demand on BBC iPlayer in the first seven weeks since its marketing launch, according to the latest figures from the BBC. During January, over 2.2 million people watched a programme on BBC iPlayer, with approximately 11 million TV programmes streamed or downloaded on demand.

In the same way that sport content was a major driver of pay-TV adoption, sports will be the single biggest driver of consumption for online video. Screen Digest forecast the number of online sports videos (OSV) streams/downloads served in the domestic US market will increase from 5.2bn last year to 10.8 billion by 2012. In […]