Don’t break the spell: Conviva releases latest findings on viewing behaviour
Slow start times, inferior picture resolution, or excessive interruptions lead to viewers quickly abandoning content, and nearly a third of viewers will abandon a...
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Slow start times, inferior picture resolution, or excessive interruptions lead to viewers quickly abandoning content, and nearly a third of viewers will abandon a...
NewsBroadband and TV revenue saw a seven per cent increase, and the BT Sport channel saw a 51 per cent increase in average daily...
NewsLiberty Global has increased its stake in broadcaster ITV to 9.9 per cent. The US cable company acquired 138.7 million shares in ITV, thereby...
BusinessThe Scottish Loan Fund (SLF) has committed £3.5 million of funding in support of Paywizard, the Kirkcaldy headquartered specialist in subscriber management for pay-TV
BusinessThe company reported a five per cent increase in group revenue to £11,283 million and an 18 per cent increase in operating profit to...
BusinessIn its interim results the broadcaster stated increased external revenue, up 11 per cent to £1.36 billion, and profit growth up 24 per cent...
NewsITV’s second quarter results have been published today, and in light of this Ampere Analysis has taken a closer look at how the broadcaster...
BusinessThe European Commission has sent a Statement of Objections to Sky UK and US film studios, Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount Pictures, Sony, Twentieth Century Fox...
NewsA recent report by GlobalWebIndex (GWI) has revealed that the publicly-funded BBC iPlayer service has a huge global audience which is using Virtual Private...
NewsThe cable and satellite industry is in flux at the moment. Streaming video platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Now TV continue to...
NewsEuropean and US pay-TV operators are spending an estimated US $2.8 billion of their almost $10 billion annual network and maintenance expenses to directly...
John Petter, CEO of BT’s Consumer Division, has called on Ofcom to formally amend the scope of its Digital Communications Review to include pay-TV,...
Conviva has released the findings of its report, Binge Watching: The New Currency of Video Economics, based on a recent survey of 750 consumers.
NewsUK OTT platform TVPlayer will launch a subscription service this summer.
Technicolor has announced the availability of its new High Dynamic Range (HDR) single-layer solution for testing by key ecosystem partners.
NewsElemental Technologies is enabling the Orange TV Group to expand its Genflix OTT service on a variety of smart devices, aiming to broaden content...
IPTV, OTT and changing consumer habits were some of the key themes at Futuresource’s New Content Horizons conference, which took place earlier this month...
Global shipments of over-the-top (OTT) set-top boxes (STBs) sold at retail including Apple TV, Chromecast and Roku boxes, will overtake shipments of IPTV STBs...
NewsAnalyst firm to examine the future of the European pay-TV market to kick off the inaugural TVBEurope 2020 conference.
BusinessMany consumers would consider changing their primary TV service to an ‘a la carte’ model to avoid paying for bundles which include channels they...
NewsPay-TV network OSN worked with Viaccess-Orca to successfully eliminate over 60 per cent of the illegal links of the top matches at the recent...
NewsUK-based Paywizard is expanding its global footprint by launching in the Asia Pacific market.
BusinessThe top pay-TV operators in the United States added 101,000 new subscribers during the fourth quarter to end a tumultuous year in 2014 according...
BusinessTelefónica has announced a joint initiative for the provision of TV OTT on devices with Windows Phone OS.
NewsThe broadcast world has been a late convert to cloud computing, but the benefits are especially timely for an industry that embraces the concept...
Ninety-six per cent of households have digital TV but there has been a significant increase in the proportion of homes without, according to Ofcom’s...
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...
TiVo has partnered with Ness Software Engineering Services (SES) in order to extend its ability to deliver next-generation television experiences by leveraging R&D services.
BusinessPay TV services increased their subscriber numbers by just 1 per cent in the third quarter of 2014, according to informitv’s Multiscreen Index.
Quickplay and Comigo have announced an integrated solution that allows pay TV operators to deliver personalised viewing with advanced social capabilities and interactive apps...
ACCESS announced that it will demonstrate its NetFront Browser BE, built on the Chromium Blink browser engine, now supporting the DLNA VidiPathTMRemote User Interface...
NewsOfcom has launched a consultation into whether regulation that requires Sky to offer its Sky Sports 1 and 2 channels to other pay TV...
Sheikh Nasser Al-Khelaifi of Qatar has acquired a major stake in satellite pay TV operator Digiturk, according to Turkish media reports. The reports indicate...
African pay-TV provider MultiChoice has selected Clearleap to help it to deal with the rapidly increasing amount of content it needs to process.
Untapped demand for local, Arabic content will spur rapid regional media growth over the next five years, according to a new study unveiled at...
CVC Capital Partners agrees a deal with Sky to acquire its betting and gaming business for £800 million
Zenterio, developer of an independent software platform for interactive TV, and Metrological, a TV application store provider, have signed a partnership agreement.
Globecast’s French television package, Téléfrance, has launched in the UK. The package is now available via a range of pay-TV platforms, including Now TV...
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...
Sky Italia has selected a discovery solution from ContentWise to power personalised recommendations for Sky Online, the company’s recently launched online video service.
The Latin American pay TV services market is expected to continue its growth due to the rise in postpaid subscriptions for direct-to-home (DTH) TV....
Commercial-free channel The Qyou has launched what it claims to be the world’s first international 24/7 pay TV service to bring a selection of...