Findings from media and communications sector financial intelligence specialist SNL Kagan suggest that global set-top box (STB) shipments maintained elevated levels in 2015, buoyed by demand in emerging markets such as China and India. Worldwide STB shipments are on track to reach 253.1 million in 2015, up marginally from 248.6 million in 2014, as the […]
SVoD services continue to make their way into more homes in France. According to Médiamétrie’s VOD360 survey, SVoD services are now in 12 per cent of French homes, reaching roughly 5 million people. Last year, 65 per cent of French web users did know what SVoD was, with services mainly driven by two big players, […]
Atresplayer, Atresmedia’s streaming and VoD platform, has launched its LG app in a move to strengthen its presence in the smart TV market. The launch comes soon after a similar move from its largest competitor, Mediaset, which launched its online platform Mitele on Samsung smart TVs in December. Atresplayer’s LG app delivers Atresmedia’s content on-demand […]
Major UK TV companies face the growing threat of the millennial generation’s preference for new media channels, according to research by L.E.K. Consulting, the global strategy consultancy. One of the most important challenges comes from millennials’ planned reduction in spend on pay-TV and switch to OTT services such as Amazon Prime and Netflix. Forty-five per […]
Amazon Prime Video has made all nine seasons of the classic sci-fi drama The X-Files, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, available on its service in the UK. All episodes are ready for unlimited streaming on Prime Video effective immediately, giving viewers just under 2 weeks to binge it all before the show returns with […]
According to research from Parks Associates, 33 per cent of UK broadband households subscribed to an OTT video service as of Q3 2015. The study – Connected Consumer in Europe – also shows that only 15 per cent of UK households with pay-TV subscribe to premium movie channels. “Overall OTT video usage
Conviva, a specialist in OTT video experience optimisation, has released its final Viewer Experience Report Update for 2015. The report reviews a year in which OTT services became core lines of business for leading media publishers and service providers, and new
ABOX42, a supplier of IPTV, OTT and Hybrid SmartSTB platforms and IPTV, multiscreen technology specialist, PerceptionTV have joined forces to provide customers with a complete IPTV/OTT hardware and software solution for international markets. The Perception platform will be integrated into ABOX42’s M series smart set-top-box platform and showcased at a number of industry events in […]
Keepixo, a provider of software-based head-end solutions for IPTV and OTT, announces that m:tel has selected its high density transcoders and mosaic generators for its new OTT multiscreen service. Keepixo OTT transcoders are used to deliver more than 60 channels using Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol to a variety of devices with different screen […]
Tony Gunnarsson, Senior Analyst, TV and OTT Video at technology research and advisory firm Ovum, has suggested that Netflix’s recently-announced 130 nation expansion will see the addition of some 10 million subscribers in those markets in 2016, with a similar amount in existing territories. The firm also predicts