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Digital film sales surpass discs for the first time

PVoD content accounted for 6.2 per cent of all digital rentals over the lockdown period according to BASE

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Quarter of viewers think traditional TV will ‘cease to exist’

Imagen spoke to 1000 consumers as part of the survey about their views on the future of TV and streaming services

Media Delivery

NENT plans to launch Viaplay in 15 more countries

Announcement part of company's Q2 results

Media Delivery

Spain’s Vodafone TV integrates Eurosport Player

First operator in the Spanish market to integrate Eurosport’s app into its set-top box

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Mount Everest becomes a 5G tower

China Central Television broadcast live from Everest using the network installed on the mountain

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Marseille to stream matches on Twitch

First French football club to stream matches on the platform

Media Delivery

Netflix now has 193 million global subscribers

Ted Sarandos appointed co-CEO alongside Reed Hastings

Media Delivery

‘Conversations are now about when the Cloud transition will happen, not if’

Jenny Priestley and OWNZONES CEO Dan Goman discuss lockdown's impact on the media industry, IMF adoption, and what the future holds

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Over 80 per cent of broadcasters believe 5G will replace traditional distribution

A third of those who took part in the survey said they expect the change to happen over the next 1-2 years

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Broadcast TV sites saw 630 per cent increase in ‘credential stuffing’ in 2019

Akamai publishes its latest 2020 State of the Internet / Credential Stuffing in the Media Industry report

Media Delivery

Samsung sets out 6G vision

Company predicts mass commercialisation of 6G around 2030

Media Delivery

Arqiva ‘to make a third of staff redundant’

Company said to be planning to make 500 members of staff redundant

Media Delivery

Sky promises HDR live sport will launch in 2021

Platform now supports Disney Plus in HDR

Media Delivery

NewTek announces TriCaster 2 Elite

Will Waters, head of global product management at NewTek, talks to TVBEurope about the new video production platform

Media Management

M2A Media drives Formula 1’s live race streams

F1 employing M2A CONNECT to acquire, process and distribute its live content to global broadcasters and sports rights owners

Media Delivery

‘The distribution model of live sports must change’: Eleven Sports founder on the future of broadcasting

"You should be able to get access to a football game as easily as buying an ice cream," said Andrea Radrizzani

Media Delivery

OTT 2.0: understanding the importance of interactivity and engagement

Ian Sharpe, CEO of Promethean TV, writes that broadcasters can take action to make the most out of the changing landscape to engage customers,...

Media Delivery

Barcroft Studios launches new OTT channel, truly

Channel will debut on Pluto TV in the UK, Austria, Switzerland and Germany in early July

Media Delivery

Surveying the streaming landscape

To coincide with TVBEurope’s June edition focusing on streaming, we asked OWNZONES CEO Dan Goman and company advisor John Calkins for their take on...

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Jockey Club of Turkey heads to the races with The Switch

Feeds are picked up by The Switch's Access service from BT Tower in London and then live streamed over the club’s dedicated online channel

Media Delivery

New Amazon Watch Party feature lets 100 viewers stream together

New feature is available on PC desktop

Media Delivery

BBC iPlayer breaks records with 570 million requests in May

Programme requests increased by 73 per cent compared to May 2019

Media Delivery

Smartphones to power 170 million SVoD subs over next five years

According to Digital TV Research, the total will climb by 25 million in 2020 alone

Media Delivery

Amazon adds new media analysis features to Rekognition Video

Allow users to execute workflows such as content preparation and ad insertion, and add ‘binge-markers’ to content at scale in the Cloud

Media Delivery

Is Amazon looking to go linear?

Company has posted job listings detailing plans for a new Linear TV service

Media Delivery

NENT Group, Elisa Viihde launch new Finnish streamer

Elisa Viihde Viaplay is due to launch on 30th June and will include local and Nordic content as well international content

Media Delivery

Apple TV updates with 4K YouTube, picture-in-picture features

Apple TV is "much more than a TV platform" says analyst Paolo Pescatore

Media Delivery

Disney Plus to launch in eight more European countries

Streamer to launch in eight markets across Western and Northern Europe

Media Delivery

Sky, Discovery agree linear channel, VoD, D2C partnership

Sky Q and Eurosport will join forces on UHD and HD pop-up feeds during the 2021 Olympics

Media Delivery

How broadcasters can give viewers the live sport experience at home

As live sport resumes, Ariff Sidi, general manager and chief product officer, Media Platform, Verizon Media, explains how broadcasters can make viewers watching on...