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European streamers launch VoD Coalition

Organisation aims to encourage VoD companies to continue to invest in Europe, and policy makers not to over regulate

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Netflix with ads could launch this year

According to reports, an AVoD version of the global streamer could launch in the final three months of 2022

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Eurovision 2022: First multi-site trials deliver show over 5G

“5G Broadcast offers big opportunities to the whole media value chain and there’s no better way to showcase this technology than at the EBU’s...

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Global AVoD revenues to double by 2027

By 2027, 13 countries are predicted to generate more than $1 billion in AVoD revenues

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Analyst: Global pay-TV market set for highs and lows over next five years

Between 2021 and 2027, 86 countries are predicted to add pay-TV subs and 52 countries will lose subscribers

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Mediaset España sets Unified Streaming to optimise live streaming

Broadcaster has moved from push-based streaming to a pull-based protocol, which runs in Microsoft Azure and facilitates a multi-CDN strategy

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Paramount Plus confirms UK launch date

Further launches are planned in Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria in the second half of the year

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Serie A broadcasts first match in the metaverse

"We have chosen to be the first to broadcast a football match in the metaverse because we believe that the frontier of technological innovation...

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Channel 4 scores England’s men’s football games

In total, Channel 4 will air 20 live England matches between 2022 and 2024

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BBC iPlayer reports best-ever quarter

Viewers streamed programmes a record 1.83 billion times in the first three months of the year, 100 million more times than in the same...

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Germany’s Bundesliga scores with personalised interactive feed driven by AWS

The Interactive Feed comprises more than six statistical widgets that feature information ranging from pictures and results to match facts and formations

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Viaplay wins UK rights to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland men’s football matches

Viaplay's new UK streaming service is expected to launch in the second half of 2022

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Virgin Media gets into streaming

Stream includes UHD content and is available as a 30-day rolling contract

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Grass Valley announces major updates for AMPP, including AWS collaboration and free playout

Grass Valley has also agreed a deal with Epic Games to bring Unreal Engine to GV AMPP, which can be used to build virtual...

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Poland set to overtake Russia as Eastern Europe’s SVoD market leader

In total, the region will have 43 million SVoD subscriptions by 2027; up from 23 million at end-2021 said Digital TV Research

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Ultra HD Forum updates guidelines to include NDI, SRT, colour accuracy and video over IP

The Ultra HD Forum Guidelines aim to provide recommendations and procedures that promote uniformity of product, interchangeability and "ultimately the long-term reliability of audio/video...

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Tokyo 2020 was ‘the first streaming Games’ says IOC

Olympic Broadcasting Services produced 3,300 hours of UHD/HDR coverage, and 10,200 hours of content in total

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Reed Hastings: Netflix will explore ad-supported option over ‘next year or two’

Netflix COO Greg Peters said that advertising “is an exciting opportunity for us"

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Kantar: Cost of living crisis leads to record numbers cancelling streaming services

Proportion of consumers planning to cancel SVoD services and stating the primary reason as ‘wanting to save money’ has risen to its highest ever...

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Life in the FAST Lane

Shaun Keeble, VP digital at Banijay Rights takes a look at why so many media firms are now flocking to the FAST channel space,...

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FIFA kicks off global OTT service

The free platform, named FIFA Plus, promises to provide access to live matches from "every corner of the world"

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Open Broadcast Systems, Zixi get on track with low-latency video over 5G

5G modems were attached to the encoders and delivered video with glass-to-glass latencies of 250ms over the eight-hour race

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LaLiga match broadcast live via TikTok for first time in Spain

The game between Real Sociedad and Real Betis was broadcast for free in 9:16 video.

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5G Virtuosa project successfully completes live TV production

Project has tested a trial live TV production, including signals from five different locations in Germany and Great Britain

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Bitmovin debuts first automated video streaming testing solution

Stream Lab enables development teams to test their streams in real environments on physical devices

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Kyiv-based news channel launches on UK’s Freeview

Ukraina 24 is produced jointly by Ukrainian media companies 1+1 International, Rada, Ukraine 24, Inter+, ICTV, UATV, and Suspilne

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Live feed from Ukraine’s United News made available for free

Cloud and IP-based live video specialist TVU Networks is offering a free live feed of the Ukrainian news media's collaboratively run United News

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Apple makes history at the Academy Awards

Dune was the night's big winner picking six awards in total, including Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects

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IPTV and streaming gain ground on terrestrial in DACH market

Zattoo's 2022 Streaming TV Report found that for the first time, the internet is the most used TV reception method among German internet users

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UKTV takes W free-to-air

Channel will also rebrand itself as "the home of genuine human moments" as it aims to connect with its female skewing 25-44 target...

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Analysts: Western Europe pay-TV subs to drop to 100 million by 2027

Digital TV Research predicts IPTV will overtake satellite TV in 2026 to become the most lucrative platform

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Red Bee provides OTT backbone for sustainable film streamer

All content available on newyonder.earth is albert-certified

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Streaming Video Alliance announces new tech specifications

New tech specifications address CDN APIs and harnessing the potential of 5G

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Netflix shifts stance on ad-supported platform

"Never say never," said Netflix CFO Spencer Neumann

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No consensus on mobile and DTT sharing sub-700 UHF band

Talks took place as part of one of the ITU's key groups preparing for the World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 (WRC-23)

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Netflix stops streaming in Russia

It's believed the streamer has around one million subscribers in Russia

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Disney Plus to launch ad-supported subscription offering

Disney said it views the ad-supported offering as a building block to achieving its long-term target of 230-260 million Disney Plus subscribers by 2024

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Streaming Video Alliance members reach new interoperability milestone

Ateme, Broadpeak, Orange, Vecima, and Telefonica have demonstrated the capacity for their CDN solutions to be provisioned for streaming delegation within an Open Caching...