streaming

Global video traffic rose by almost a quarter in 2022

For the first time, Netflix replaced YouTube as the individual app generating the most traffic, with TikTok, Disney Plus, and Hulu among the top...

Business

DAZN delays IPO following $1 billion losses

The company saw income rise to $1.6 billion in 2021, but reported costs of $2.9 billion, an increase of over 50 per cent compared...

Media Delivery

UK police launch illegal streaming crackdown

Working with FACT and other agencies on Operation Raider, West Mercia Police have identified over 1,000 people who have been streaming content illegally

Media Delivery

What’s in store for the media tech industry in 2023: Streaming and 5G

We asked experts across the media tech industry to share their thoughts, with topics including the rise of sports streaming, FAST, low-latency, and the...

Media Delivery

Amazon ‘considering separate app for sport’

Company is said to view the launch of a standalone app as a way to generate revenue from its sports deals

Business

Watch: TVBEurope’s Story of 2022

TVBEurope takes a look back at some of the most popular articles about the media technology industry in 2022

Media Delivery

ITV’s new streaming service has the X factor during first week

ITV reported a 138 per cent increase in streams on ITVX during its first week compared to ITV Hub in 2021

Media Delivery

ITV leverages Accedo’s application frameworks for ITVX

Working alongside ITV's in-house teams, Accedo has developed the video service for a number of platforms

Media Delivery

Bringing flexibility to the complex video value chain

Peggy Dau meets SVP of sales and marketing at Setplex Marc Mulgrum to find out how it is helping content owners, ISPs and OTT/IPTV...

Media Delivery

Paramount Plus expands into DACH region

Streamer is now available in 45 markets globally

Media Management

Cloud: the great enabler

TVBEurope sits down with Marc Aldrich, general manager for global media and entertainment at AWS, to discuss the cloud, FAST, playout, the metaverse and...

Features

Live streaming is booming: how broadcasters can take advantage

Live streaming’s usage has been growing steadily over the past few years, in large part due to the pandemic, and is expected to increase...

Media Consumption

Wales v England peaks at 18.7m on BBC, while iPlayer enjoys best ever week

BBC announces that 18.7 million tune in to its coverage of Wales v England as BBC iPlayer reports its best ever week

Media Delivery

BBC R&D provides update on eliminating streaming latency

Streaming coverage of the World Cup in Qatar has once again highlighted issues around latency between streamed coverage and TV broadcast... something BBC R&D...

Media Consumption

Global OTT revenues to hit $243 billion by 2028

Revenues from OTT television and movies predicted to generate $17 billion in 2023, growing to $243 billion globally by 2028

Media Delivery

Gone in 13.4 seconds

A new survey by Bitmovin reveals poor video quality and buffering issues could cost video streamers as much as £45 million per month

Media Delivery

Arqiva, MainStreaming forge technology and services partnership

Two companies are working together on a range of new capabilities and service offerings to meet the challenges of the fast-changing streaming world

Media Consumption

Study: The way UK viewers watch sport is ‘nearing a tipping point’

Study by Grabyo suggests sports fans in the UK are increasingly choosing to watch content on their smartphones or via a streaming device over...

Media Management

Netflix deploys open source software in worldwide content operations

The GPAC Project on Advanced Content is an open source software that provides a modular multimedia framework for packaging, streaming, inspecting and playing content

Media Delivery

ITVX to launch in time for World Cup Final

Broadcaster is promising viewers will see a "new and improved product experience"

Media Delivery

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...

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

Media Delivery

Tadum! Netflix subscriber numbers bounce back in Q3

Streamer's global subscriber base is now 223.1 million

Media Delivery

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

Media Delivery

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...

Media Consumption

Netflix signs up to BARB

BARB is the first industry-owned audience currency in the world that Netflix has joined. The board will now report daily Netflix viewing from 1...

Media Delivery

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

Media Delivery

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

Media Delivery

Starz adds another streamer to the market with rebrand as Lionsgate Plus

Lionsgate Plus is available in a number of European markets

Media Delivery

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

Business

DAZN agrees deal to acquire rival ELEVEN Sports

The deal will see DAZN gain the rights to top-tier football in both Portugal and Belgium, as well as its existing rights deals in...

Media Delivery

Paramount Plus arrives in Italy

Paramount Plus will also launch on Sky platforms in Italy as part of a new multi-year distribution agreement

Media Delivery

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...

Business

Is digitally-driven disruption in the media industry starting to slow?

Newly launched Content Connect Initiative plans to work with the media industry to explore perspectives on the evolution of the industry and the priorities...

Media Delivery

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