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Netflix prepares for first live, global streaming event
Chris Rock comedy gig is set to stream in early 2023
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Disney Plus to launch ad-supported tier next month
Disney CEO Bob Chapek told investors the company has "proven technology" to deliver a great experience for users from day one
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ITVX to launch in time for World Cup Final
Broadcaster is promising viewers will see a "new and improved product experience"
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InterDigital to investigate 6G’s technological advancement capabilities
Company has been awarded funding from the European Union to support five Horizon Europe 6G Flagship research projects
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Video advertising workflow platform Peach supports Netflix’s new ad tier
Peach provides a connected advertising workflow, enabling users to deliver their ads to Netflix straight from the edit suite
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Combined HBO Max/Discovery Plus streamer to launch in the spring
The two services jointly added 2.8 million customers in during Q3 20222, said the company, which means the number of paid subscribers to WBD's...
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OneFootball scores with Connected TV app
Football fans will be able to watch games from around the world via the app, which is immediately available on Apple tvOS and Amazon...
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Paramount Plus to debut on Virgin Media in 2023
The app will be fully integrated into Virgin Media’s set-top boxes, allowing customers to access more than 8,000 hours of content
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EBU establishes Web3.0 and metaverse working group
EBU is inviting members to join the group, and has appointed Alberto Ciprian from RAI R&D to serve as its chair
Media Delivery
BBC R&D partners with Tim Berners Lee’s company to look at social TV
The project includes a Watch Party experience, called BBC Together + Data Pod, where viewers can log in and watch some of the BBC's...
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Warner Bros Discovery Sports to take audiences into the metaverse
Infinite Reality has been appointed Discovery Sports Events exclusive metaverse partner
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PBS America deploys Simplestream technology for Freeview Play launch
The broadcaster leveraged Simplestream's proprietary Media Manager and App Platform products
Media Management
Scientists set new data transmission record of 1.8 petabits per second
The researchers transmitted 1.8 Pbit/s, which was carried by the light from one optical source. That corresponds to twice the current global internet traffic
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HBO blames distribution partner for House of the Dragon leak
“HBO is aggressively monitoring and pulling these copies from the internet," said a spokesperson for the company
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Channel 4 aims to attract younger audiences with new digital-first brand
Channel 4.0 aims to create opportunities for the next generation of talent both in front and behind the camera
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Tadum! Netflix subscriber numbers bounce back in Q3
Streamer's global subscriber base is now 223.1 million
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Deltatre’s turnkey end-to-end video platform enables OTTs to go live in 90 days
Platform can support both AVoD and SVoD business models, with users granted access to Deltatre’s publishing platform and data analytics tools
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SES launches dedicated satellite distribution platform for sport and live events
Platform, which will support broadcasters in Europe, uses the latest DVBS2x modulation
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Kantar: Almost a million UK households have dropped a streamer so far in 2022
Kantar's figures also reveal almost half of churned Netflix subscribers have dropped out of the SVoD category altogether
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Netflix now in direct competition with free-to-air broadcasters
The streamers move to incorporate an ad service was not part of the company's script, but is a significant move which takes it in...
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New solution aims to remove complexity of video streaming
The new Streams solution is a culmination of existing products in the Bitmovin range: Bitmovin Player, Encoding, and Analytics
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The role of consumer data in channel management
By Craig Buckland, technical director, Broadcast Traffic Systems
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Bitmovin aims to develop a climate-friendly video streaming platform
Project GAIA aims to identify ways to improve sustainability and reduce energy consumption across the end-to-end video streaming chain
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Channel 4 launches attribution platform
The new TV attribution platform which is exclusive to Channel 4, has been developed by 4Sales partners with ViewersLogic and will provide advertisers with...
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Going over-the-top with OTT: The broadcasters’ Catch 22
Thomas Bostrøm Jørgensen, CEO, Appear, queries whether broadcasters should go all in on the next generation, or maintain focus on their declining pool of...
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Red Bee Media partners with Nowtilus and Equativ on FAST channels
The solution combines FAST channel workflows, dynamic ad insertion and advanced programmatic advertising
Media Delivery
Google selects iWedia for Live TV app
The app is being developed to improve the user experience and enable TV manufacturers to add more value and increase revenue streams, the companies...
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Starz adds another streamer to the market with rebrand as Lionsgate Plus
Lionsgate Plus is available in a number of European markets
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UKTV Play adds HD content from this autumn
New shows will be available from November, with back catalogue content, for which a HD master exists, being re-coded
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Sky moves further away from satellite with launch of Sky Stream
All content on Sky Stream will be available in HD as standard, with UHD also available
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Analyst: Pay-TV subs continue to drop, but still above one billion
According to Digital TV Research, IPTV will be the pay-TV winner, with satellite losing around 12 million subscribers between 2021 and 2027
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Report: UK’s home entertainment sector to surpass £5 billion by 2025
Technology is helping to change the home entertainment landscape, with AI, automation and Blockchain increasing the potential of multi-experience audience interaction, states the report
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Analyst: No Netflix and churn (yet)
Globally, SVoD subscriptions will increase by 475 million between 2021 and 2027 to reach 1.68 billion predicts Digital TV Research
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Netflix’s AVoD platform ‘could reach 40 million global viewers by Q3 2023’
Netflix expects to attract advertisers from a dozen launch markets, including the UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy
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Paramount Plus arrives in Italy
Paramount Plus will also launch on Sky platforms in Italy as part of a new multi-year distribution agreement
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MainStreaming creates ‘most advanced real-time high-quality video delivery network’
The technology is optimised for both live and on-demand and can run applications on the edge
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Six US-based platforms to account for 81 per cent of all SVoD subscriptions in Western Europe by 2027
Netflix is predicted to add three million more subscribers in Western Europe over the next five years, with its share of the total number...
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Haivision introduces new 5G contribution solutions with latency as low as 200ms
The new solutions are designed to meet the requirements of broadcasters deploying video contribution workflows over mobile and IP networks, from encoders and transmitters...
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Rohde & Schwarz introduces new transmitter platform for broadcaster network operators
The R&STH1 supports the delivery of traditional and new services in the streaming era, said the company
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Red Bee Media deploys Synamedia’s Quortex for disaster recovery
Quortex’s cloud-native solution provisions back-up resources only when required, which will help Red Bee reduce energy use and meet its sustainability goals
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Varnish Software joins EBU’s 5G and satellite media delivery project
Company aims to unite satellite and land-based 5G with caching and content delivery solutions
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Bitmovin launches global network to reduce complexity of live and on-demand video workflows
Members include Akamai, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Broadpeak, Dalet, Grass Valley, Google Cloud, Irdeto, Microsoft, NAGRA, Red Bee Media, Videon Labs, and Zixi