The UK market for on-demand TV is reaching saturation point, with only limited further audience growth potential, according to research from YouGov. It says that instead of looking for new audiences providers should focus on maximising what they get from existing users. According to the researcher, 48 per cent of the online population in the […]
Walmart’s streaming service Vudu has advised users to change passwords after a security breach. Unusually, the action was taken following the theft of several hard drives rather than a hack attack. The channel said the disks contained names and other personal details about its customers. It added that passwords saved onto the drives were stored […]
IDATE’s newest market insight describes the different models of subscription-based video on demand offerings (SVoD): supply-side strategies and description of main players’ services. It lastly analyses the SVoD services developments compared to the pay TV global market. Spotlighted by the success of services like Netflix and Hulu, SVOD seems poised to compete with traditional VOD […]
Leading multimedia solutions provider Visual Unity has helped Turkish company Calinos Entertainment to deliver a complete Video on Demand service. Based in Istanbul, Calinos Entertainment was established in 1997 as a content distribution company supplying television and film programmes to service providers and channels. With Visual Unity’s expertise, the company has now expanded its operations […]
On demand content specialist Viewster has revealed a raft of significant additions to its international online library. Spanning more than two hundred titles, the various new deals include highly popular British and Australian series, along with various American films that will be made available ad-based and free-to-watch to consumers across the US, UK, Germany, Australia, […]
Recent research from personalised video experience specialist Ooyala suggest that live and long-form video outperforms on-demand and short-form video across all screens. The findings come in a special edition of its quarterly Global Video Index, revealing the most recent trends in multi-screen video consumption from broadcasters and entertainment networks around the world. They spotlight dramatic […]
Video management software and services company KIT digital is extending the functionality of its VOD Store solution with PerSys, the personalisation system. PerSys gives clients the ability rapidly to deploy a recommendation engine, calling on internal and external data to drive consumption, and therefore revenues, through better access to the right content. PerSys is a […]
BBC iPlayer delivered new record highs for average daily and weekly request numbers in February 2013. Weekly requests averaged 59 million, up from 57 million in January, and across the month there was an average of 8.6 million requests per day. The shorter February month (28 days, compared to January’s 31) resulted in a lower […]
Intel, best known for its computer processing chips, is getting closer to launching its own on-demand pay-TV catch-up and ‘live’ TV service. The company is said to be in discussions with Time Warner, NBC-Universal, News Corp, Viacom and others in preparation for the launch of its Intel-based pay-TV service. CBS’s CEO Les Moonves confirmed last […]
Hulu’s board has approached potential buyers to gauge interest in buying the online video service, as News Corp and Walt Disney decide what to do with their share of the company. The board has sounded out several possible bidders as part of an internal strategic review but it has not received a formal offer. Finding […]