OTT

Opinion

Broadcast in the cloud: Keeping up with video streaming

The broadcast world has been a late convert to cloud computing, but the benefits are especially timely for an industry that embraces the concept...

TVBEverywhere

French retailer Carrefour goes OTT

Carrefour, the second biggest retailer in the world, launched a new multi-platform entertainment service.

News

Business

OTT revenue to expand to $6 billion by 2019

Subscription video on demand (SVoD) services such as Netflix were available to 1.3 per cent of emerging market households in 2014, with a user...

Business

Irdeto looks to broadcast and content future

Irdeto has launched its Eye on 2020 report, a series of predictions over the next five years covering trends that will impact the broadcast...

Business

Netflix reports blockbuster Q4 earnings

Netflix this week released the results of its fourth quarter earnings report, which saw the streaming service add 13 million worldwide subscribers during 2014.

Business

Piksel expands into content acquisition services

Piksel has launched its Piksel Content Services. The company will manage all stages of the content acquisition process for new OTT players.

Business

SVOD represents three per cent of pay-TV market

Subscription video on demand (SVOD) services will account for just three per cent of the global pay-TV market this year, reports Deloitte.

Business

Cellcom Israel partners with Vubiquity for OTT and VoD

Cellcom Israel, Israel's largest cellular operator, has launched Cellcom tv, a new subscription Over-The-Top (OTT) TV and Video on Demand (VoD) service. Vubiquity is...

News Releases

Harmonic optimises security with Microsoft PlayReady

Harmonic's ProMedia Origin and ProMedia X Origin multiscreen media servers have been integrated with Microsoft PlayReady digital rights management (DRM) technology for content access...

News Releases

Hollywood Blockbusters get Dolby Vision release

Dolby Vision, a complement to both HD and 4K, is a new imaging technology that helps content creators and television manufacturers deliver a dramatically...

News

Business

SeaChange to acquire Timeline Labs

SeaChange to acquire California-based SaaS company in deal potentially worth up to $25 million

Business

Africa’s MultiChoice picks Clearleap multiscreen platform

African pay-TV provider MultiChoice has selected Clearleap to help it to deal with the rapidly increasing amount of content it needs to process.

Business

TVbeat announces partnership with Telekom Slovenije

TVbeat, a SaaS company delivering a real time TV audience measurement solution has signed a deal with Telekom Slovenije.

Opinion

The future of OTT

Gene Hoffman, chairman and CEO of Vindicia, talks to TVBEurope about the predicted growth of VoD services, the power of Netflix, and the future...

Production & Post

Wuaki.tv integrates Civolution’s watermarking for UHD content

Civolution and the European streaming service Wuaki.tv have announced the integration and deployment of Civolution’s content protection technology NexGuard, which is enabling Wuaki.tv to...

Videos

Business

Plans to ‘re-invent’ BBC Three unveiled

A proposal was announced yesterday announced a to relaunch BBC Three, including a move online

Business

Winch Capital 3 joins Thomson Video Networks in growth plan

WINCH Capital 3, run by Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, has bought a 49 percent stake in Thomson Video Networks.

News

Business

Mobile and tablet viewing to reach 50 per cent in 2015

Ooyala has issued its Q3 2014 Global Video Index Report into the way people consume TV and video across different devices throughout the day

Videos

Production & Post

T-Mobile chooses nangu.tv for mobile TV

nangu.TV has further expanded its relationship with telecoms operator T-Mobile Czech Republic, which is now using the company’s Media Platform to provide OTT mobile...

Videos

TVBEverywhere

Southern Cloud to rely on Level 3 CDN

Southern Cloud, an OTT platform provider specialising in premium diaspora content, has selected Level 3 to provide Content Delivery Network (CDN) services.

Interviews

Will network operators count on STBs in the future?

As IPTV is moving from a linear to a complete TV experience incorporating live TV, on-demand services and third party content, the new world...

Business

Premium OTT market to experience rapid growth by 2017

Vindicia and Ooyala have announced the results of a qualitative pan-European study

Interviews

Watching TV ‘when, where, what and how you want it’

Amir Aharonovitch, VP of marketing for VBox Communications, spoke with Holly Ashford about the new system, and changing trends in TV consumption

TVBEverywhere

90% to own mobile phone by 2020

Ninety per cent of the world's population over six years old is predicted to have a mobile phone by 2020, according to the latest...

News

Business

Artesyn and Intel to present free webinar

Linsey Miller (pictured), director of marketing at Artesyn Embedded Technologies, and Rik Dunphy, senior software architect at Intel’s Data Center Group will present a...

Data Centre

SNL predicts significant OTT growth in Poland

Poland had an 88.7 per cent multichannel penetration rate at the end of 2013, the highest in the Eastern Europe region, reports SNL Kagan

Business

Cennarium signs connected device deal with Samsung Brazil

Following its successful launch, Cennarium, dubbed as the world’s first global performing arts streaming service, has secured a deal with Samsung to provide its...

Business

Online TV viewers prefer dynamic advertising

Dynamic ads and viewer control (eg., the option to choose the product categories of ads you see) lead to greater sponsor recall, according to...

TVBEverywhere

PerceptionTV launched

PerceptionTV has been unveiled, following a demerger from Vision 247 to market and sell its IPTV/OTT cloud-based multiscreen platform Perception

Opinion

TV and convergence – does satellite have a future?

More service providers than ever are now entering the broadcast space and the technology landscape for content distribution can be highly confusing. David Crawford,...

Opinion

The transformation of entertainment content delivery

Dror Gill, CTO, Beamr, examines the major trends in delivering entertainment content to consumers, and their impact on all industry players.

TVBEverywhere

HBO goes OTT

US cable network HBO will launch an internet on-demand service in 2015, the company has revealed.

News

TVBEverywhere

Telekom Romania goes Everywhere with Viaccess-Orca

Telekom Romania, part of Deutsche Telekom, has selected Viaccess-Orca’s Voyage-TV Everywhere solution to drive its upcoming new IPTV and OTT multiscreen service, Telekom TV.

News

TVBEverywhere

Hungary’s TARR chooses Appear TV to deliver new multiscreen services

Hungarian multi-service operator TARR has chosen to deploy systems from Appear TV to increase channel capacity and power its new linear multiscreen services.

Business

Imagine Communications creates a TV Everywhere future

Imagine Communications has unveiled its vision for enabling Communications Service Providers to gain strategic advantage in offering over-the-top (OTT) video and IPTV services.

Business

Second screen losing ground in emerging markets

The second screen is increasingly losing favour in emerging markets, according to the results of an OTT TV survey unveiled by OTT, IPTV and...

News

Production & Post

Levira opens new playout facility in Bratislava

Levira, an independent TV playout service provider in northern Europe, has installed a new playout facility in Bratislava, Slovakia.

News

Opinion

Television evolves into the many

Disruption is part and parcel of the television industry, and today’s disrupters are the Hulus, Amazons and Googles of the world, offering over-the-top (OTT)...

Features