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ANGA COM 2023: Key Topics Fibre, Streaming and OTT

With more than 18,000 participants from 82 countries and 390 exhibitors, ANGA COM, Europe’s leading Exhibition and Conference for Broadband, Television & Online, celebrated a brilliant comeback in May 2022. The next show date is May 23rd to 25th 2023 in Cologne, Germany.For the next year – 7 months in advance – a further increase […]

October 27, 2022

BDB Pitmans advises Royal Opera House on streaming service

Law firm, BDB Pitmans, have advised internationally renowned opera company, the Royal Opera House, on legal matters relating to the creation of the Royal Opera House Stream. The new online streaming service is designed to offer customers exclusive access to classic recordings taken from The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera archives, as well as […]

October 25, 2022

Deltatre launches new turnkey end-to-end video and application platform

Deltatre, a sports and entertainment technology provider, has announced the launch of a new turnkey end-to-end video and application platform that will allow new entrants to the OTT sector to go live with market-ready video streaming services within 90 days. The new platform gives both existing streaming services seeking to enhance their current offering, and […]

October 18, 2022

PTCL to launch streaming platform in Pakistan

Pakistani telecom Group (PTCL) and Ufone 4G, both subsidiaries of e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group), have signed an agreement with evision to launch its own video streaming platform in Pakistan. The new OTT platform will host a collection of Hollywood and Pakistani entertainment content besides an assortment of national and international news and sports […]

October 17, 2022

Forecast: Gen Z to consume 13 hours of media daily in 2023

Generation Z, defined as 16 to 24s, is forecasted to spend 13 hours consuming media per day in 2023, slightly behind their 25 to 34 counterparts, according to the Global Ad Trends report: Finding Gen Z by WARC Media. From broadcast radio to podcasts, online TV/streaming to linear TV, it’s forecasted at least 40 minutes will […]

October 14, 2022

OTTera continues to build out executive team

OTTera, a multi-service technology provider bringing publishers content to life across all major platforms for Connected TV, FAST, mobile & desktop, has announced the appointment of Diana Yurinova as the company’s new Vice President of Global Operations, where she will lead operations and content/channels acquisitions. “After many years in the content production and distribution industries, […]

October 14, 2022

Research: 38% US homes own smart home device

Parks Associates’ consumer survey work of 10,000 US Internet households shows that 38 per cent of households own at least one smart home device, up 2 per cent from a year ago. Consumers continue to buy connected products; 27 per cent of US Internet households report buying a smart home device in the past 12 […]

October 11, 2022

France: M6 launches 6Play ad-free option

M6 has launched 6Play max, an ad-free subscription version of streaming and catch-up service 6Play. The M6 pay streaming platform has been developed by technology subsidiariy Bedrock and will be available on Samsung and OS Android smart TVs which account for some 70 per cent of the market in France. This new option is accessible […]

October 11, 2022From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Forecast: 25% of European pay-TV on OTT by 2027

Traditional pay-TV accesses in Europe have been stagnating over the last few years and are expected to reach just above half of the region’s households in the next five years, forecasts Dataxis. This decline can be largely attributed to an ever rising number of cord-cutters among European TV audiences, switching off traditional pay-TV accesses at […]

October 5, 2022

Rai expands international offer

Italian public broadcaster Rai is boosting its international presence by launching a new streaming platform. From October, the existing RaiPlay VoD platform will add an international section called Rai Italy, the director of the foreign markets offer, Fabrizio Ferragni, told the Ansa news agency. Content will be aired in English with Italian subtitles or in […]

October 4, 2022From Branislav Pekic in Rome