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Altice scores Premier League TV rights
Altice has acquired the exclusive football broadcasting rights for England's Barclays Premier League for the next three seasons, beginning August 2016
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BuzzMyVideos hits half a billion monthly views
Multi-platform online video network BuzzMyVideos has announced a 140 per cent year on year growth in views to its site, now totalling over half...
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Norwegian to offer live TV on European flights
Low-cost airline Norwegian has become the first to offer live TV on board European flights. Passengers using Norwegian’s free inflight WiFi can now watch...
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History to premiere documentary on Paris attacks
A+E Networks UK will broadcast a one-hour special event documentary on its History channel following the recent terror attacks in Paris, which claimed 130...
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Vision247 develops anti-piracy VoD platform
Vision247 has created a bespoke video on-demand screening platform that enables content distributors to share and stream media assets with partners and clients around...
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TVT announces new media management software platform
TVT, an independent media services and post production house, has launched its cloud-based media management platform, ContentSelect, which delivers transmission-ready content for linear TV...
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Hulu’s film focus sees revenue soar
App Annie has released findings from its monthly App Annie Index, which highlights the top-performing apps for the iOS App Store and Google Play,...
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ITV strikes programmatic deal with RadiumOne
Commercial has entered into a new partnership with programmatic ad platform, RadiumOne
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Tata Communications adopts live OTT solution
Tata Communications has become the first customer to implement Net Insight’s live OTT solution globally
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Sky promises ‘Fluid Viewing’ with new service
Sky has announced its new home entertainment system, Sky Q, designed to create a TV viewing ‘ecosystem’ in the home
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Ericsson and Airtel unveil NuVu SVoD service in Nigeria
Ericsson and telecoms provider Airtel Nigeria have announced a subscription video on-demand content service, NuVu, giving subscribers in Nigeria access to around 3,000 local...
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Younger viewers unfazed by poor quality of experience
One in five viewers will abandon poor video streaming services immediately, and after such an experience one in five will never return to that...
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens available as Dolby Cinema experience
The upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh installment in the film series, will be available as a Dolby Cinema experience
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Sky and HBO strike first pan-European content deal
Sky and HBO have agreed a new deal that will make HBO programmes available on Sky Atlantic for 21 million Sky customers across Europe
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The QYou unveils app for curated web content
The QYou, a media network showcasing curated internet video content, is now available on mobile thanks to a new app launched today. TVBEurope met...
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VisionTV unveils app for 247 on the go viewing
Vision247 has launched a new app to live stream of all 20+ channels available on VisionTV
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Net Insight goes over the top
Media transport provider Net Insight is entering the OTT market in order, it claims, to solve live OTT streaming challenges
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Altice to offer SVoD service
Altice has launched Zive, a new SVoD platform, as well as a new fibre set-top box for the French market
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Vubiquity to sell digital content in stores
Vubiquity in discussions with a number of retailers to launch a product that would allow consumers to buy digital content, initially movies, in high...
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BBC launches buy to keep service
The BBC has launched a new digital service that allows audiences to purchase and keep BBC programmes
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Ziggo launches free sports channel
Dutch cable operator Ziggo will launch a new sports channel this month, featuring major events, a weekly talkshow and sports-related films and documentaries
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Liberty Global and A+E Networks extend pan-European deal
Liberty Global has extended its distribution deal with A+E Networks and launched two new HD simulcast channels in the UK
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AOL launches live streaming app
AOL has entered the live streaming market with a new version of its Kanvas app
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Brazil and France pirate most horror content for Halloween
In the lead up to Halloween, illegal peer-to-peer downloads of current and classic horror films increased by 21 per cent worldwide according to Irdeto
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Reuters-TIMA rolls out services in Moscow and Rio
Reuters-TIMA, a partnership announced in February this year, is expanding its network by adding studio hubs in major international cities
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The QYou primes for commercial expansion with key hires
The Qyou, a subscription TV service featuring internet video content, has made three commercial hires, signalling its intention to broaden its operations across the...
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The Economist Films launches documentary series
The global current-affairs newspaper announced its video initiative in June with the premiere of two series pilots in New York London. Content from the...
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Vice announces aggressive move into TV in Europe
Digital youth brand Vice is planning an 'aggressive' move into TV, with a number of channel launches planned across Europe and the UK
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Brightcove announces Lift to defeat ad blockers
Brightcove has launched an ad optimisation solution which it promises will enable publishers, broadcasters and OTT providers to maximise video ad delivery and revenue,...
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Disney launches streaming service
Disney is to launch a new digital subscription service, DisneyLife, which will give members access to Disney and Disney Pixar movies, Disney Channels TV...
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CNBC Africa announces partnership with Newstag
The multi-year deal grants Newstag the right to share and distribute CNBC’s news videos on its mobile and online platforms alongside current affairs and...
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YouTube announces subscription service
YouTube is to offer a new subscription service featuring original content including films starring popular vloggers from the site. YouTube Red launches on October...
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TV sports packages tempt consumers to premium offers
New research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech on the home services market – covering broadband, fixed landline and paid television – has revealed that premium...
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Game of Thrones star to front new Huffington Post original series
The Huffington Post has partnered with GroupM Entertainment for a new original documentary series hosted by Game of Thrones actress, Sophie Turner
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French OTT offering signs major distribution deals
Molotov, created by Jean-David Blanc, founder of AlloCiné, and Pierre Lescure, founder of Canal+, has entered into OTT distribution agreements with a number of...
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Channel 4 launches personalised and dynamic ad replacement
New digital platform All 4 introduces personalised ad insertion in the live stream to boost revenues and customer engagement
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Formula E highlights available in real-time from Grabyo
Formula E has extended its partnership with Grabyo for the second season of the world’s first fully-electric racing series
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Drama proves most popular for pirates
Drama and adventure movies and TV shows are the most heavily pirated worldwide, according to data from digital platform security specialist Irdeto
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Vubiquity and TV2U to bring VoD to emerging markets
Content services provider Vubiquity and TV2U Worldwide are to work together to roll out transactional video on demand (TVoD) services to some of the...
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Two thirds of viewers would switch on-demand provider for subtitles
A new report by charity Action on Hearing Loss (formerly RNID) into on-demand subtitling has found that more than two thirds of those who...
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RCS and Facebook team up for visualisation tools
Graphics technology provider Reality Check Systems (RCS) has collaborated with Facebook to create Facebook Now, an application which curates stories, people, media, topics and...
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RR Media announces online sports content service
RR Media in partnership with Pi Telecom is providing a new online platform for sports organisations which offers premium and subscription based content to...
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