Has America become a marathon nation when it comes to video content consumption? Indications point to “yes”. Seventy per cent of US consumers now binge watch an average of five episodes at a time, and almost one-third (31 per cent) binge on a weekly basis according to Deloitte’s 10th Digital Democracy Survey. In addition to […]
Ofcom has published its UK Home Broadband Performance, comparing the performance of 18 popular broadband packages, from seven major Internet service providers. Virgin Media’s 100Mbit/s and 200Mbit/s services provided the fastest average actual download speeds of all the ISP packages included in the report. Its ‘up to’ 200Mbit/s service recorded the highest average actual download […]
Research from Parks Associates shows usage of authenticated video viewing, or TV Everywhere, reached 40 per cent of US pay-TV consumers in 2015, up from 22 per cent in 2013. Entertainment Habits on Connected CE Devices shows the percentage of respondents watching authenticated video at least once a month is 23 per cent, which both […]
Deluxe Entertainment Services has announced that the company’s multiscreen and OTT delivery platform, Deluxe OnDemand, has expanded its content protection services to include complete support for FairPlay Streaming (FPS) technology with 32-bit encryption for iOS devices and Apple platforms. Programmers and studios now have a complete solution for OTT expansion to the iPhone, iPad, and […]
Jason Thibeault, Senior Director Content Marketing, explains Limelight’s suite of solutions that take the complexity and the heavy lifting out of a broadcaster’s transition to online. Video, CDN, workflow, web performance, security, storage, all form modular parts of an end-to-end service, so no matter the scale of the broadcaster, or where it has reached in […]
Netflix customers are the most likely entertainment consumers to promote their service to others with Netflix having risen to the top of the entertainment brand power list in both the UK and US, according to Ampere Analysis. Among channel and pay-TV platform brands Netflix has
Chromecast has been rebranded Google Cast to reflect its ability to work across a range of devices. Google says the updated app, which will enable casting of content from multiple devices to TVs, displays and wireless speakers as well as Chromecast dongles, will be rolled out for iOS and Android versions. Google also announced that […]
Verimatrix, a specialist in securing and enhancing revenue, has announced that Digi Jadoo Broadband, a pay-TV distributor in Bangladesh, has implemented the Verimatrix Content Authority System (VCAS) for DVB Hybrid to secure content for its new Jadoo Digital service. With this deployment, Jadoo Digital becomes the first to launch HD, premium TV services via a […]
Babeleye, the multilingual video content metadata platform, has been selected by AfricaXP to manage rich EPG metadata of its linear channels distributed to two of AfricaXP’s customers. Babeleye will provide total management and distribution of programming information to top TV platforms Zuku, a pan-African pay-TV platform, and WatchAfrica, which offers a premium SVoD service. AfricaXP […]
Almost a quarter of UK homes subscribe to Netflix, with 1.4 million joining the streaming service in 2015 alone, says a BARB survey. More than five million households, or 24 per cent, subscribed to Netflix at the end of 2015, compared with 14 per cent in 2014. Netflix far out sells