In 2021, US Roku monthly users will increase by 11.5 per cent, reaching 111.7 million monthly users, according to eMarketer forecasts. With these figures, Roku will maintains it position as the most-used connected TV (CTV) device in the US market, but Amazon Fire TV is catching up. Roku users now make up a third of the US population. Despite […]
At the Prime Video Presents Sport 2021 showcase in London, Amazon Prime Video unveiled new updates and announcements across its premium live sports, films and TV series, featuring some of the biggest names in UK sport, including Nicola Adams, Thierry Henry and Wayne Rooney. The line-up of on-air talent and key broadcast details for the upcoming […]
The second season of Alex Rider will be available to stream on IMDb TV December in the UK and US from December 3rd. Additionally, viewers can now stream the first season of Alex Rider on IMDb TV, Amazon’s free streaming service. Produced by Eleventh Hour Films, Alex Rider is a spy-thriller series based on the […]
Norwegian wifi company Eye Networks has signed an agreement with eero, an Amazon company, for the distribution of mesh wifi products and services to Nordic broadband service providers. “This is our biggest distribution agreement to date,” said Jan Pedro Tumusok, CEO of Eye Networks. The eero for Service Providers program combines eero hardware with subscription […]
Hispasat, the Spanish telecommunications satellite operator, has signed an agreement with Tele Greenland, the national communications company in Greenland, to lease space capacity on the Amazonas Nexus satellite until the end of its lifetime. The agreement will make it possible for Tele Greenland to improve Internet access in all remote towns and villages in North […]
Nielsen is relaunching its streaming video measurement solutions under a new Nielsen Streaming Solutions banner. Broadcasters and streamers have been looking at alternatives for measuring across platforms and alternative metrics as currency for buying and selling commercials. Nielsen says its new streaming measurement suite includes Nielsen Streaming Platform Ratings (formerly Streaming Video Ratings), which measures […]
ClipMyHorse.TV and FEI.tv, for the first time, produced the world feed at the European Equestrian Games 2021, taking place in Germany this summer. The competition featured the events dressage and show jumping. ClipMyHorse used new PORTAL modules PORTAL.edit and PORTAL.vod running under the AWS Cloud to produce the competition’s daily highlights summary. Deploying the combination […]
The bid for Eutelsat by businessman Patrick Drahi, rejected by the satellite company, might well trigger other bidders to enter the picture. Sami Kassab, equity analyst at investment bank Exane/BNPP, poses some interesting suggestions as to potential rival bidders to Drahi. Kassab argues that the key to anyone’s success in the validation of the bid […]
Blue Origin has announced that actor William Shatner and Audrey Powers, Blue Origin’s Vice President of Mission & Flight Operations, will fly on board New Shepard NS-18. Shatner’s career as an actor, director, producer, writer, recording artist, and horseman has spanned 60 years. He famously originated the role of Captain James T. Kirk in 1966 […]
Premium video streaming in Japan reached 85 billion minutes during January – August 2021, or 13 per cent of total time spent on video according to the first of a series of quarterly reports from Media Partners Asia (MPA) measuring the Japanese streaming economy. The report, titled Japan Online Video Consumer Insights & Analytics, leverages […]