The Zappware platform comes with a uniquely designed, best-in-class and ever-evolving user interface. A content-driven navigational pattern ensures your subscribers can intuitively use your services. By creating an immersive experience that integrates many different types of content and services, we avoid that subscribers have to switch over to other entertainment platforms and thereby reduce churn. […]
Alongside unveiling a company reorganisation, BT’s results for the third quarter and nine months to December 31st 2015 show the telco added 97,000 TV subscribers during the quarter, reaching 1.4 million. The company said that in its BT Consumer division, it was seeing good demand from its broadband customers for BT Mobile and new BT […]
Smart TV adoption has improved in many developed regions, along with China, as consumers increasingly seek streaming content from online video services. By 2019, more than 50 per cent of TV households in Japan, the US, the UK, France and Germany will have smart TVs, according to IHS. According to
UK telco BT has revealed a new organisational structure that will take effect from April. This follows its acquisition of EE, the UK’s leading mobile network operator. Under this structure, there will be six lines of business. Two will serve consumers, two will focus on businesses and the public sector – one in the UK […]
Without making specific allegations, the Future of TV Coalition – a diverse group of US programmers, content creators, civic groups and television providers formed to celebrate and promote the thriving innovation that is revolutionising the video viewing experience – has intimated that Google may well have had advanced warning of the FCC’s plans to introduce […]
Accessing free streams of top football matches is putting devices, and personal privacy, at great risk, says a study by computer science researchers at Stony Brook University in New York. It says the most popular sites attract upwards of eight million visits per month. But like many free services, the pirate sites rely on advertising […]
Michael Powell, President and CEO of US trade body the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) and a former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission himself, has hit out at plans by current incumbent Tom Wheeler to introduce regulation that he says would pave the way for software, devices and other innovative solutions to compete […]
Movie digital destination Fandango, a unit of NBCUniversal, is to acquire OTT service M-GO, a joint venture between Technicolor and DreamWorks Animation. The acquisition – the terms of which were not disclosed – comes on the heels of Fandango’s record-breaking 2015, when the company experienced 81 per cent growth in ticketing dollars year-over-year and added […]
Rovi and Intellectual Ventures (IV) are collaborating to bring together their media and entertainment patent portfolios under a unified, comprehensive licensing programme to focus on OTT offerings. Under the new agreement, Rovi will serve as the exclusive partner for IV, licensing the companies’ combined patent portfolio exclusively to OTT customers. This alliance builds a combined […]
Panasonic Avionics and All Nippon Airways have announced a partnership to launch ANA SKY Live TV and broadband Internet services on domestic aircraft that fly routes across Japan. ANA Sky Live TV includes three unique channels of Japanese news, sports and other popular programming from JSAT Corporation’s Sky PerfecTV! platform. Passengers will be able to […]