American Entertainment company 4KUniverse has expanded its European presence by joining Luxembourg IPTV platform PostTV. 4KUniverse is a 24hr 4K HDR general entertainment TV channel that airs original series, movies, documentaries, sports and primetime programmes in High Dynamic Range. POST Luxembourg has add the new 4K channel to its Entertain Me package. Entertain Me allows […]
The management team for BritBox, the SVoD service created by UK PSBs the BBC and ITV, has been announced in the run-up to the service’s planned launch in the fourth quarter of 2019. As previously announced, the BritBox management team is led by Reemah Sakaan who has expanded her BritBox US and CA role to […]
A retailer in London has been convicted at the City of London Magistrates’ Court for selling illegal streaming devices (ISDs) which gave access to unauthorised Premier League broadcasts and other content. Ammar Al-Silawi was found guilty on two charges of copyright and two charges of fraud, having been found to sell ISDs which provided unlawful […]
Research from analyst firm Parks Associates finds that the percentage of households with multiple OTT subscriptions has increased by 130 per cent since 2014. In 2019, 46 per cent of US broadband households subscribe to two or more OTT services. Parks’ study, Partnering, Aggregation, and Bundling in Video Services, reports that only 33 per cent […]
When at home, 5.1 million people use broadband every single minute, according to UK multiplay operator TalkTalk. There is a new generation of Britons choosing nights in with family, staying in to indulge their online guilty pleasures, forming what TalkTalk has coined the ‘In-Crowd’. With winter nights drawing
Findings from research firm Roy Morgan shows that Google Chromecast is Australia’s most popular digital television service, with 12.1 per cent owning the service. Uptake has more than doubled over the past three years. The proportion of Australians who own digital television services has shown significant growth across all brands in the past three years. […]
The BFI, the UK’s lead organisation for film, has announced that its BFI Player subscription service is now available to UK customers through Apple TV channels on the Apple TV app across iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and select Samsung smart TVs. Customers can subscribe directly to the service on the Apple TV app for £4.99 […]
Connected TV (CTV) has established itself as a brand building essential that is clearly here to stay. It now accounts for a full 50 per cent of all video ad impressions – twice that of mobile – according to the latest Video Benchmarks report from Extreme Reach (ER), the asset management solution for TV
Global analyst firm CCS Insight has revealed its predictions for 2020 and beyond. Covering topics from the future of 5G, through the rise of bias testing in AI and the digitising of sports, the CCS Insight Predictions seek to guide and influence the thinking of top and emerging technology companies around the world. The predictions […]
Wurl, a provider of streaming video distribution and advertising services for connected TV, has announced the general availability of AdPool, a new advertising marketplace enabling video producers to sell their Connected TV (CTV) ad inventory to thousands of advertisers, ranging from global brands to local businesses. The new offering is available today as a free […]