Screenreach, a UK-based technology company, has reached a multiyear agreement with the NBA to broadcast select games from the NBA season live to commercial venues in Malta via its cloud-based Screach platform. In the NBA’s first collaboration of its kind in Europe, Screach will expand its live game offering by making live NBA games available […]
Rocky, the 1976 boxing movie written by and starring Sylvester Stallone is America’s favourite indie movie of all time, according to a poll of streaming subscribers conducted by Bitcentral’s ViewNexa, the unified workflow solution. The findings come from the company’s new report How to follow the audience: the challenges and opportunities in today’s streaming market. […]
Research by advertising technology provider The Trade Desk reveals that 63 per cent of British adults are open to ads in exchange for free streaming content with 60 per cent subscribing to up to three streaming services. As more viewers continue to shift their viewing habits to content on connected TV (CTV), the research results […]
TMB has announced that its free, ad-supported streaming channel (FAST) At Home with Family Handyman is now available on Samsung TV Plus. Along with the strategic expansion, the channel also adds two new series to the DIY brand’s programming slate, Pet Palaces and Workshop It, set to premiere on October 6th and November 1st respectively. […]
DistroScale, the company behind DistroTV, has announced the launch of ‘Wedding TV by Love Stories TV’ on its platform, with a special focus on Indian weddings. This launch is powered by the DistroTV Platform Services, which offers a solution for media brands to create, monetise, and distribute their own streaming TV channels. ‘Wedding TV by […]
Netflix has announced the promotion of Elizabeth Stone to the role of chief technology officer (CTO). Stone (pictured) joined the streaming platform back in 2020 to lead data and insights. Additionally Netflix has named Eunice Kim as chief product officer (CPO). Kim was previously head of Netflix’s consumer product innovation team “Elizabeth and Eunice have […]
MyStreme ihas announced partnership with the specilaist in studio-approved content filtering, Clearplay. This partnership is a major leap forward in MyStreme’s promise to its investors, and a major expansion for Clearplay’s audience, which is currently limited to PC users. Clearplay provides its customers with the ability to filter content depending on preferences for language, nudity, […]
Rakuten TV has opened its new headquarters in Barcelona, which it calls “an important project for the company that has been created with its team in mind and with an environmental commitment”. The new Rakuten TV headquarters are located in the 22 district, an area where many technology companies are based. The project, designed alongside […]
Tim Davie, the BBC Director General, told RTS Cambridge that further streamer roll-outs in the US offer “great potential” as the UK broadcaster looks to commercial arm BBC Studios for increasing revenues. BBC Studios returned £362 million (€419m) to its parent last year, with content investment of £177 million. “We’re looking at on demand services […]
Viaccess-Orca (VO), a specialist providing OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, has announced that CNT, the largest telecommunications provider in Ecuador, will use VO’s Cloud Platform, multi-DRM solution, Secure Video Player, and multiscreen applications for the delivery of its new CNTPlay OTT service. Leveraging VO’s end-to-end suite of solutions, CNTPlay can […]