Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) technologies and VoD servers has announced that D-Smart, Turkey’s youngest and fastest growing digital broadcasting platform, has deployed Broadpeak’s BkS400 video servers to manage its OTT streaming services. Leveraging HTTP adaptive streaming technology and a massive streaming capacity, the servers enable D-Smart to stream high-quality live and […]
Sky in the UK and Sky Deutschland have added 30,000 and 42,000 subscribers respectively in the first quarter of 2013. Sky is no longer breaking out DTH subscribers from those to its Now TV OTT offering so the DTH subscriber growth may have been flat or down, states MRG research. Sky in Germany has doubled […]
Vubiquity, a global provider of multiplatform video services, has revealed the results of a tracking study measuring consumer behaviours and attitudes toward VoD and TV Everywhere (TVE) in the US. In the survey, conducted by Frank N. Magid Associates during the fourth quarter of 2012, satisfaction with On Demand grew 5 per cent over 2010. […]
Annual revenue generated from content delivered to mobile handsets and tablets is expected to increase by nearly $25 billion over the next three years, reaching $65 billion by 2016, a report from Juniper has found. According to the report, growth would primarily be fuelled by an upsurge in game, video and eBook purchases via tablet […]
Australian home entertainment retailer JB Hi-Fi has revealed details of a new cloud-based video service known as JB NOW Video, giving consumers the opportunity to download or stream films and TV shows on a number of devices, including PCs, tablets and smartphones. JB Hi-Fi CEO Terry Smart announced the launch of the service in a […]
Decipher has published its quarterly audit of VoD on the major UK DTV platforms and OTT services. One of the key changes in the landscape of UK VoD in the last six months has been the introduction, and then the rapid growth, of catch-up content on Sky. This was historically an area that Sky was […]
Synacor, provider of next-gen startpages, TV Everywhere solutions and cloud-based Identity Management (IDM) services has expanded its relationship with Verizon to offer the company’s nearly 5 million FiOS TV subscribers access to TV shows and movies from one online destination. The My Verizon website now includes a simple search and discovery experience, easy authentication, and […]
Barry Diller, founder of controversial online broadcasting service Aereo, has asserted that broadcasters who are currently seeking to have the operation outlawed are obliged to provide a signal, suggesting that their litigation is motivated by a desire to get relief from Congress in respect of carriage fees. Interviewed on Bloomberg TV’s Lunch Money, Diller described […]
An independent poll conducted by MPP Global Solutions found that over half of TV broadcasters questioned believe that OTT services will boost their bottom line by a further 50 per cent by 2015. The TV experience is changing rapidly from a traditional, linear model to one which is consumer-driven, mobile, accessible and highly customisable. 2013 […]
Nielsen is debuting a tool that will track online TV viewing. Nielsen Digital Program Ratings will primarily allow networks to track viewing of the shows that they stream on their own websites. Pilot partners include Fox, NBC, ABC, Univision, Discovery and A+E. AOL is the only online only video provider participating in the pilot. The […]