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Agile Content appoints Fernández de Alarcón to board

Agile Content, a provider of digital TV and video distribution solutions, has reorganised its Board of Directors with the appointment of Carmen Fernández de Alarcón as independent director. de Alarcón, CEO of Havas and member of the Board of Directors of Grupo Prisa, has extensive experience in the sector. She will replace Aloysio Junqueira, who […]

May 31, 2022

CHILI accepts crypto payments

OTT platform CHILI has partnered with Coinbar to allow its users to make purchases with Bitcoin, XRP, DigitalBits and Tether using CoinbarPay. CHILI is a European Entertainment Company that distributes directly in five European countries – Italy, England, Germany, Austria and Poland, reaching 5 million registered users in 2021. The company’s shareholders also include US […]

May 30, 2022

Eleven agrees Thai Women’s League deal

Sports media group Eleven has secured exclusive worldwide live rights for the Thai Women’s League for three seasons, from 2022 – 2024. LIVE coverage of the Thai Women’s League will be available exclusively from May 28th 2022 via Eleven’s global OTT platform elevensports.com, as well as locally on Eleven’s platforms across South East Asia and […]

May 27, 2022

CTV-focused attribution solution from TVDataNow

Connected TV (CTV) and OTT advertising measurement platform TVDataNow has unveiled a CTV-focused attribution solution which it says provides the most comprehensive attribution for marketers, publishers, and adtech companies looking to leverage the CTV channel. The company says that with the solution, data-driven marketers will now be able to use complete performance insights for CTV […]

May 26, 2022

Omdia: UK SVoD growth despite squeeze

Reporting on the most up-to-date pay-TV and OTT research at the Connected TV World Summit in London, Omdia Senior Director Maria Rua Aguete told delegates that the number of people paying for video services in the UK had “increased 11 per cent over the last year and quarter on quarter since April 2021.” According to […]

May 24, 2022Colin Mann @ Connected TV World Summit

Insys Video Technologies launches Cloud DRM

Insys Video Technologies has launched its new product, Cloud DRM, a fully serverless security solution dedicated to OTT platforms and content creators. Insys Video Technologies is an OTT solutions company with over 13 years of experience with DRM systems. As the entertainment industry inevitably shifts towards the digital, the company decided to give its product […]

May 24, 2022

Forecast: OTT revenues at $224bn by 2027

Global revenues from OTT movies and series will reach $224 billion (€212bn) in 2027; up from $135 billion on 2021, according to the Global OTT TV and Video Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. About $21 billion will be added in 2022 alone. SVoD revenues will climb by $48 billion between 2021 and […]

May 23, 2022

Infovista announces new user experience testing solutions

Infovista, a global player in network lifecycle automation (NLA), has announced new user experience testing solutions for the most resource intensive – and latency sensitive – OTT applications and interactive 5G services. Innovatively combining various generic testing techniques, sophisticated real live service traffic pattern emulations and machine learning (ML) algorithms, Infovista enables mobile operators to […]

May 20, 2022

Forecast: 800m APAC homes will have pay-TV by 2025

Although Asia Pacific is traditionally referred to as a mobile-driven region, the pandemic accelerated the importance taken by larger screens in the region, and 110 million additional pay-TV subscriptions are expected to be observed in the next 5 years, according to forecasts from Dataxis. As population is also expected to increase drastically, regional penetration rate […]

May 19, 2022

Research: Platform choice impacts ad attention

Research into the role of attention across TV advertising from addressable TV provider Finecast shows that the platform on which an ad is served directly impacts the active attention viewers commit to it. The findings also show that: Attention paid to an ad on TV is more active and consistent across its duration than on […]

May 19, 2022