Telefónica’s pay-TV subscriber numbers were flat in the year to June, with marginal growth of just 0.4 per cent to reach 8.8 million. This was despite solid growth in IPTV (16 per cent) and from its OTT TV offering in Latin America where Movistar Play grew by 59 per cent to reach 1.2 million subscribers. […]
In an unintended consequence of the US-China trade dispute, the North American television market has increased its adoption of smart TVs – particularly those based on the Roku TV operating system (OS), according to research firm IHS Markit. Smart TVs in the first quarter of 2019 accounted for 89 per cent of television shipments into […]
Findings from Hub Entertainment Research’s Evolution of the TV Set study indicate a disparity between feature availability and consumer awareness, as well as a strong brand awareness lead for Roku over Amazon Fire. Highlights from the study: 1) Many consumers with 4K TV sets don’t know where to find 4K content—even though most subscribe to […]
With one year to go until the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 begins, multichannel programmer Discovery has claimed it will present the most comprehensive digital coverage of a Summer edition of the Olympic Games ever across Europe. Following the success of its first Olympic Games production for Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, where Discovery suggests it […]
ProSiebenSat.1 is considering launching Joyn, its streaming joint venture with Discovery, in markets outside Germany, ProSiebenSat.1 CEO Max Conze, speaking to WirtschaftsWoche, confirmed the news, saying the broadcaster is looking at taking the Joyn model elsewhere in Europe once the key features of the platform and the future premium offering were in place. He said […]
Australian pay-TV platform Foxtel has unveiled The New Foxtel Experience which it says will provide customers with its iQ3 and iQ4 set top boxes a completely redesigned user experience, bringing together the best of TV and on demand, all in one place. As part of the New Experience, Netflix will now be available for the […]
Video content budgets across India, Korea and Southeast Asia climbed 12 per cent in 2018 to reach circa $10 billion, according to the latest edition of Asia Video Content Dynamics, published by Media Partners Asia. Asia Video Content Dynamics tracks investment, production and consumption for TV, film and online video across India, Korea and Southeast […]
FreeWheel, a Comcast company and advertising management solution, has announced the launch of its Q1 2019 Video Marketplace Report, which shows a rise in targeted and addressable advertising as publishers and marketers increasingly look to efficiently reach audiences. In Europe, there is a focus on data-driven targeting and automation as a growing number of publishers […]
Vodafone will soon replace the Horizon TV platform with one of its own products after the closing of the deal to take over Unitymedia. Alexander Leinhos, head of external communications at Vodafone Germany, confirmed the news in an interview with Digital fernsehen. The product replacing Horizon TV could tentatively be the GigaTV, Vodafone’s platform offering […]
Major League Baseball’s (MLB) first exclusive live game on YouTube drew a peak audience of more than 200,000 concurrent viewers. According to data provided by YouTube-owners Google to technology and media company Morning Consult, the game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 18th also saw more than two million views […]