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SRT Alliance announces 2021 SRT InterOp Plugfest

The SRT Alliance, the open-source initiative dedicated to overcoming the challenges of low-latency video streaming, today announced that this year’s SRT InterOp Plugfest will take place from Monday, June 21 – Friday, June 25. The annual event will kick off with a webinar featuring a special guest speaker from AWS Elemental, at 11am EST/5pm CET […]

June 17, 2021

AWS and Vodafone announce availability of AWS Wavelength in London

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has announced the general availability of AWS Wavelength on the Vodafone 4G/5G network, allowing software developers and enterprises to build ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and users in the United Kingdom. Customers can now deploy parts of their application that require ultra-low latency at the edge of […]

June 17, 2021

Research: 46% US homes have 4 or more SVoDs

Coinciding with its fourth annual Future of Video event, research firm Parks Associates has shared its latest data and insights showing that 46 per cent of US broadband households subscribe to four or more OTT services. Some 82 per cent of the 10,000 US broadband households surveyed in Q1 2021 now have an OTT subscription, […]

June 16, 2021

Amazon reveals 2021/22 Premier League games

The Premier League has confirmed the fixture rounds for the 2021/22 season and Amazon has revealed the next 20 fixtures to be broadcast on Prime Video this December. Prime Video’s exclusive coverage will feature every Premier League team in two different matches, as they broadcast all games across two fixture rounds, featuring 20 matches in total. […]

June 16, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Paddy Power moves into TV content

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power is moving into longform content by producing its own sitcom to be broadcasted on terrestrial TV and streaming services. Entitled The VAR Room, the four-part series takes a tongue-in-cheek look at what ‘really’ happens behind the scenes at Stockley Park – the home of VAR in England. The series will features a number […]

June 16, 2021By Nik Roseveare

AWS launches AWS Elemental Link UHD

AWS has announced the general availability of AWS Elemental Link UHD, a High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) encoding device that makes it easier to connect a live UHD video source, like a camera or other video production equipment, to AWS Elemental MediaLive for video processing in the AWS Cloud. With Link UHD, AWS says users can […]

June 16, 2021

A1 Austria launches Zappware’s advanced TV solution on Fire TV

Austria is a very Amazon-centric country with a high share of subscribers with Amazon Prime Video. Amazon Fire TV sticks belong to the most popular devices used to watch TV in Austria. A1 Austria is now launching their Zappware-powered video service on Fire TV. Johannes Natterer, Head of Residential TV & Services at A1 Telekom […]

June 15, 2021

Spain: Now streamers must pay for RTVE

Spain is set to eliminate the 0.9 per cent tax on telco revenues and pass the burden to finance RTVE onto global streaming players such as Netflix, HBO and Amazon. The Spanish government is revising the Audio Visual Law and is set to exempt Spanish telcos from financing the public broadcaster with around €128 million […]

June 14, 2021From David Del Valle in Madrid

Study reveals most-visited websites

Following the revelation by communications regulator Ofcom that the UK is online more than any other European nation, web technology provider Fasthosts.co.uk has updated its findings on the busiest websites; from search engines to social media platforms, news sites to entertainment and everything in between. Unsurprisingly, Google is crowned the world’s busiest website. In just […]

June 10, 2021

ThinkAnalytics achieves Amazon RDS designation

ThinkAnalytics, a global provider of content discovery and viewer insight solutions, has achieved the Amazon RDS Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognises that the ThinkAnalytics real-time content discovery and viewer engagement platform has demonstrated successful integration with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). “By choosing to […]

June 9, 2021