Data Centre
Danish SVoD spend rises 30 per cent
Accounted for a fifth of total video consumer spend in 2018
pay TV
Production & Post
Viacom to open Manchester and Madrid production centres
Expansion planned to support English and Spanish-language production
Business
NAGRA and MTM launch 2019 Pay-TV Innovation Forum
Programme will research the challenges facing pay-TV service providers
Data Centre
Third of all TV watched in the UK is now streamed
Customer dissatisfaction with the content on pay-TV packages is driving up popularity of streaming services
TVBEverywhere
STV unveils ad-free SVoD service
STV Player+ will allow subscribers to view STV content in Europe
Features
It’s showtime for pay-per-view, and for carrier billing
By Anthony Baladi, commercial director, Fonix
Business
BT Sport selects Paywizard for pay-per-view support
Provides BT Sport with a full subscriber onboarding service
Data Centre
IPTV named fastest-growing pay-TV platform of 2018
Analysis by Kagan breaks down the multichannel economy's five-year future
Data Centre
‘Inevitable’ 2019 will see SVoD and D2C casualties
3Vision's TV Industry Trends surveyed senior media executives for their views on the media landscape in 2019
Content
D2C services set to disrupt pay-TV market in 2019
Impact of D2C products is likely "to come to a head" with the expected launch of Disney+ later this year
Technology
VO partners with Technicolor for simplified Android TV delivery
Provides highest security levels for premium video content protection
Features
Why the ‘superabundance’ of content is proving tricky
Simon Trudelle, senior director product marketing at NAGRA, looks at why effective media asset management is crucial for pay-TV operators and content owners
TVBEverywhere
Europe’s TV subscriptions to hit 262 million
SVoD subscribers predicted to triple between 2015 and 2018
Business
MPs and peers call for PSB content protection
Group has sent letter to culture secretary urging him to stand up to the streaming giants
Technology
NAGRA protects new Sky Italia DVB-T pay-TV service
New service is secured by NAGRA's broadcast and direct-to-TV content protection technologies
Data Centre
Global TV revenues to hit $265 billion in 2018
Revenues will increase by $9 million year-on-year according to new report
Data Centre
Western Europe TV revenues predicted to reach $50 billion by 2023
OTT revenues for TV episodes and movies (including AVOD) will more than double to $23 billion
Data Centre
Streaming is a supplement, not a replacement for traditional TV say consumers
Consumer choice is driven by performance and pricing issues
Data Centre
Broadcast remains the bedrock of live sport viewing
New market survey by analysts CSG looks at sports consumption in the UK and US
Features
Innovating business models to meet evolving consumer demands
Freesat managing director Alistair Thom on why Free TV in the UK is a stronger proposition than ever before
Data Centre
Pay-TV competition to intensify as innovation remains vital
NAGRA's 2018 Pay-TV Innovation Forum identifies six key innovation areas in the industry
TVBEverywhere
Zenterio helps COSMOTE TV deliver Smart Remote experience
New EUROBOX allows pay-TV service to support on-demand content
News Release
Amino demonstrates latest pay-TV innovations
Amino has announced that it will showcase its next-generation solutions portfolio at IBC 2018, demonstrating how it enables pay-TV operators to meet the demands...
Content
M7 Group adds Epic Drama to Skylink platform
Deal extends the TV provider’s reach in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Business
Freeview interest spikes in wake of Virgin-UKTV spat
UKTV is said to be losing around £1m a week
TVBEverywhere
Comcast adds Amazon Prime Video to Xfinity X1 service
Becomes the first US pay-TV service to offer the streaming-video app
Data Centre
Consumers rate OTT services higher than pay-TV operators
Research shows that both still struggle with customer experience
Data Centre
Streamer subscriber numbers overtake pay-TV in the UK
Ofcom also reveals average daily broadcast viewing on a TV set fell by nine minutes in 2017
Business
Sky CEO downplays threat of OTT services to pay-TV market
"We simply see more partnerships and more great content," said Stephen van Rooyen
Content
French piracy falls, still costs €1.18 billion
Number of people accessing illegal audiovisual content in France each month fell to 10.6 million in 2017
Data Centre
European pay-TV market records lowest ever growth as subs slump
Market grew just 0.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2018
Business
Irdeto launches new Android TV security solution
Irdeto Armor lets operators manage content piracy and block unauthorised software on the pay-tv platform
Business
MediaTech 360: From content to control
Futuresource will examine the impact of evolution on TV and video consumption
Data Centre
Pay-TV Innovation Forum reveals priorities for 2018
Product and service innovation, digital business transformation and data-driven analytics given precedence
Data Centre
Global pay-TV operators ‘to lose $20 billion in revenues’
All of current top 10 operators predicted to lose revenues over next five years
Business
BT again tops list of pay-TV complaints
Number of complaints about the service rose in Q4 of 2017
Data Centre
Pay-TV revenues set to plummet despite subscriber increase
Revenues are estimated to fall 11 per cent in five years as more homes convert to bundles
Features
What will shape the pay-TV user interface of the future?
Anthony Smith-Chaigneau, senior director, product marketing, NAGRA, looks into his pay-TV crystal ball
Technology
nc+ selects Axon to deliver Poland’s first 4K sports broadcast
Roll-out of the service kicked off with a live broadcast of the Champions League football match between Borussia Dortmund and Tottenham Hotspur
Data Centre
Ampere: 60 per cent of UK internet users have one or more SVoD contracts
Commercial and public broadcast channels 'beginning to lose relevance for certain groups'
Data Centre
Western Europe pay-TV revenues fall while subscribers increase
Digital TV Research predicts total subscribers to hit 106 million by 2023
Data Centre
Viewers believe pay-TV ‘value gap’ is expanding
New report from Deloitte finds roughly half of pay-TV viewers are unhappy with their service