Internet entertainment streaming service Aereo, which November 21st filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 reorganisation in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has suggested there is substantial interest in the company’s assets. Aereo suspended its operations June 28th following the Supreme Court copyright decision in favour of US broadcasters. […]
French consumer organisation the CLCV (Consommation, logement et cadre de vie), is suing Netflix, claiming that the subscription video service does not comply with French law. In a statement, the CLCV said it is suing the streaming service before a Paris court, accusing the service, which is running its French operations from Luxembourg, of not […]
Amazon is rumoured to be launching a free, ad-supported video streaming service separate from Amazon Prime, according to The New York Post. The report comes from a potential advertiser on the service that said the aim of the service would be to increase its market share against Netflix. According to the report, the service would run […]
Online video firm Octoly has published a report showing that by June 2014, videos featuring content from video-game Minecraft had been watched 30.8 billion times, with only 183 million of those views coming from the channel of Mojang, the game’s publisher. That’s nearly three
XroadMedia, specialists in building content discovery and recommendation solutions, has announced a partnership with DVBLogic, a provider of innovative TV services for NAS and Windows personal computers, to enable personal content discovery and recommendations in the DVBLink product suite. DVBLink transforms NAS and Windows systems into an advanced TV solution and Personal Video Recorder (PVR). […]
Internet entertainment streaming service Aereo, which suspended its operations June 28th following the Supreme Court copyright decision in favour of US broadcasters, has filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 reorganisation in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Aereo also announced that it has appointed Lawton Bloom of Argus to […]
Spanish OTT service Wuaki.tv is intensifying its expansion and plans to be available in 15 countries by the end of 2015. The service, launched in Spain in 2010 and bought two years later by Japan’s Rakuten, is now present in four markets: Spain, France, UK and Germany. Wuaki.TV is also strengthening its content with several […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its 2014 Multiscreen TV Strategies and Vendor Leadership: Global Service Provider Survey, which provides insight into pay-TV operator plans for multiscreen video services and delivering live and file-based video content to subscribers over multiple devices. “Service providers want flexibility in the processing platforms they use to […]
Decipher, the digital media consultancy, has released findings from Wave 5 of its Mediabug research. It shows that VoD viewing is moving from
Findings from market research firm Infonetics suggest that over-the-top (OTT) pay-TV revenue is set to grow from $5.8 billion in 2014 to just over $10 billion in 2018 According to Jeff Heynen, principal analyst for broadband access and pay-TV at Infonetics Research,