YouTube has commenced phasing out exact subscriber numbers for content channels with more than 1,000 followers. The video-sharing site giant will gradually roll out the change throughout September. Numbers will instead be rounded down to the nearest 100 or, when there are over 10,000 subscribers, rounded down to the nearest thousand etc. The loss of […]
POST Luxembourg, in partnership with RTVE, has announced the of Spanish TV channel; Star HD. The channel by RTVE joins the expanding IPTV platform – PostTV – which is the largest in Luxembourg. Star HD is a spanish origin HD channel that mainly broadcasts fiction and entertainment series programmes which have achieved national and international […]
Investment analysts at Deutsche Bank used the RTL results and comments made earlier this week to examine the challenges faced by Europe’s major broadcasters coming from various current – and new – OTT players. RTL admitted that it might have to significantly increase its investment in original programming from its current €350 million annual level. […]
The average consumer now accesses TV shows and movies from more than four different sources of content. The Decoding the Default study from Hub identifies the factors that determine which source consumers turn to first. Highlights from the study: 1) Ease of navigation and favourite show availability drive consumers’ TV default decisions—and will in large […]
Around 1.5 million Portuguese subscribed to streaming services in August 2019, according to Marktest’s Telecommunications Barometer. The figure corresponds to 16.8 per cent of residents in mainland Portugal aged 15 and years and over. The penetration rate of these services is mainly segmented by age and social class. While 39.4 per cent of young people […]
The entire first season of YouTube’s Karate Kid spin-off series Cobra Kai is now available to watch for free on the video-sharing platform. YouTube’s newest initiative is set to make the platform’s original series and specials free to watch with ads enabled. The first season of Cobra Kai will be available for streaming at no […]
From Q1 2014 to Q1 2019, the total subscription revenues of the direct pay-TV market has increased by 19 per cent, reaching €8.9 billion, according to figures from Dataxis. DTH remains the leading technology for direct pay-TV, with its revenues still accounting for 39 per cent of the total, however it has been slowly decreasing […]
Insight TV, the 4K HDR broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, has announced that its channel is now available in Europe on LG Channels, exclusively powered by Xumo. This announcement follows on the heels of the same Insight TV launch on LG Channels powered by Xumo in the US and further highlights the company’s […]
Altice Portugal is expanding its Meo TV platform with new content, a new multi-view platform and the Amazon Prime Video streaming service. A new non-linear service for movies and TV series Meo Filmes e Séries has been launched with content from broadcasters AXN, AMC, Cartoon Network and the BBC as well as from local movie […]
The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of advanced interactive TV services through broadcast and broadband networks for connected TV sets and set-top boxes, is pleased to announce that the HbbTV Testing Group has published a new version of the HbbTV Conformance Test Suite. The new version […]