Amazon Instant Video has revealed that video streams on Prime Instant Video nearly tripled year over year. According to a report from Qwilt, which tracks growth in online video usage, Amazon has now passed both Apple and Hulu in streaming video usage. “We’ve invested hundreds of millions of dollars in great TV shows and movies […]
Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) technologies and live and VoD servers for cable, IPTV, OTT, and hybrid TV operators worldwide, today announced that Telecable, one of the major cable and media network companies in Mexico, has selected Broadpeak solutions to power its new OTT multiscreen service. Utilizing Broadpeak’s CDN manager, streaming server, and […]
The number of homes worldwide paying to watch television continues to rise, despite a popular view that people are turning to online alternatives, according to the latest quarterly Multiscreen Index published by consultancy firm informitv. The report shows an overall
Channel 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox are partnering to remake Swedish sci-fi drama Real Humans, marking the first time games a console maker has partnered with a UK broadcaster to co-fund a major series. The deal will see Channel 4 air the drama exclusively in the UK in 2015 at the same time as Microsoft makes […]
The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) based in the City of London Police has called upon advertisers and brand holders to continue to support its work to tackle Intellectual Property crime following the launch of its Infringing Website List (IWL). The IWL, the first of its kind to be developed, sets out to disrupt […]
OTT platform and multiscreen solution provider, Visual Unity Global has announced a strategic partnership with XroadMedia, a provider of content discovery, recommendation and targeting services. In this partnership XroadMedia will be delivering its advanced personalisation services to power vuDiscovery, the new content discovery service of Visual Unity’s award winning vuMedia platform. vuDiscoveryTM will be powered […]
The BBC Trust has approved proposals from the BBC Executive to extend the catch-up window for programmes on BBC iPlayer from seven to 30 days. The decision follows a formal assessment of the significance of the plans and advice from Ofcom on the potential impact of the proposals on others. The catch-up extension will mean […]
According to a Horowitz Associates study, TV content viewers say they spend two in ten (20 per cent) viewing hours streaming content, compared to 13 per cent in 2013. This change has been driven by an increase in streaming directly to the TV set—a trend that Horowitz hypothesises will impact viewers’ relationships to TV providers […]
Crackle and NBCUniversal Television & New Media Distribution have announced an exclusive, multi-year content licensing deal to stream feature films from NBCUniversal’s film library on the free, ad-supported streaming service. Effective immediately, Crackle users will instantly have access to several new library feature films, with more than 140 new library titles rolling out over the […]
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has confirmed that BAFTA Research, a commercial business unit operating within the organisation, has won funding from the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, for its latest research project entitled ‘Resolving Visual Quality for Media’ (REVQUAL). Following BAFTA’s success in the Technology Strategy Board’s ‘Cross-platform […]