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Fire TV Amazon’s “most successful device launch”

Amazon has announced that Fire TV Stichas strated shipping. “Fire TV Stick has been our most successful device launch ever,” said Dave Limp, Senior Vice President, Amazon Devices. “We built a ton of these, but customer demand still outpaced our supply. We’re excited by the overwhelming customer response and the team is working hard to […]

November 20, 2014

Teleste for IPTV delivery in Brazil

Teleste, a specialist in broadband video and data communication systems and services, has revealed that the company and its partner, Digital Designers TV, have provided a solution for content acquisition and delivery of live streaming IPTV for Arganet in Brazil. The solution includes Teleste’s digital headend platform, the Teleste Luminato, which is ideal to support […]

November 20, 2014

Nielsen can measure Netflix and Amazon

Nielsen will begin measuring ratings for streamed services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime in December, according to WSJ. The report, says that by analysing the audio from OTT feeds, Nielsen will be able to identify the programming being streamed without the cooperation of streaming services. A statement by Nielsen SVP Brian Fuehrer indicates that […]

November 19, 2014

Mobile bumps TV as America’s first screen

Mobile  analytics firm Flurry, owned by Yahoo, has found that time spent on mobile devices grew in the US by 9.3 per cent – from 2 hours and 42 minutes to 2 hours and 57 minutes – in the past nine months. That is almost 3 hours per day spent on mobile devices by the […]

November 19, 2014

Netflix announces Australia, NZ launch

After months of speculation, and reportedly already having an unofficial subscriber base via VPN users, Internet movie and TV subscription service Netflix is heading down under, revealing that it will expand into Australia and New Zealand in March 2015. Internet-connected users in Australia and New Zealand will be able to subscribe to Netflix and instantly […]

November 19, 2014By Colin Mann

SFR launches FTTH TV offer with Numericable

French Telco SFR has launched a new FTTH TV offering services and TV from La Box Fibre by Numericable, just a few days before the closing of  the Altice/Numericable takeover. Priced from €29.99 up to €41.99, the “Box TV fibre de SFR” is available to the 8 million households with fibre access and newcomers to […]

November 19, 2014From Paoli-Lebailly Pascale in Paris

Collections from ITV on TalkTalk TV

TalkTalk TV has worked with ITV to create a package offering homes more of their favourite ITV shows on demand. Collections from ITV gives YouView from TalkTalk homes access to over 200 hours of shows such as Birds of a Feather, The Bletchley Circle, Celebrity Juice, Hell’s Kitchen USA and all 7 season of Lewis as well as much more. […]

November 19, 2014

Atresmedia available on Chromecast

Atresplayer, Atresmedia’s Spanish OTT and VoD platform, has been launched on Google’s Chromecast, as part of its strategy to become available across all screens. The Chromecast video app allows users to play the app on a TV screen via tablets, smartphones and computers. Atresplayer currently has 2.5 million unique visitors a month and has served […]

November 19, 2014From David Del Valle in Madrid

NATPE, CEA continue viewing research project

NATPE||Content First and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) have for a second consecutive year jointly commissioned a consumer research study, this time to gather insight into the content discovery process and alternatives to live TV viewing. Findings from the two-phase study will be presented in two co-branded research reports at the 2015 International CES and […]

November 19, 2014By Colin Mann

UPC Hungary: 80% YouTube STB take-up

The percentage of available subscribers accessing YouTube via existing STBs in UPC Hungary has risen substantially to 80 per cent, according to Arpad Jordan, CTO, UPC Central and Eastern Europe. Addressing delegates at the OTTtv World Summit in London, Jordan admitted that from previous experience, UPC expected something around 30 per cent to 40 per […]

November 19, 2014By Colin Mann