Media Delivery
HBO Max confirms first European launch dates
Streamer will debut in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra next month
streaming
Business
Channel 4 planning international AVoD
Broadcaster's CEO Alex Mahon says new streamer will mirror All4
Media Consumption
Conviva: European streamers seeing ‘spinning wheel of death’ less often
According to company's latest report, in Q2 2021 video start failures were down 12 per cent in Europe overall
Media Delivery
HBO Max execs reveal European roll-out plans
Streamer will launch in some European territories this year
Media Consumption
BritBox launches on Roku
The "British Netflix" is now available on Roku streaming players and Roku TV models
Media Delivery
Feature: Are independent voices becoming lost in streaming TV shuffle?
Navdeep Saini, co-founder and CEO of DistroScale, parent company of DistroTV, looks at the Covid content collapse, where the streaming market is headed, and...
Live Production
Extreme E goes global with DAZN deal
The agreement extends English-language coverage of the motorsport series to DAZN's rest of world territories
Media Delivery
Comcast, ViacomCBS announce new streamer for select European markets
New SVoD SkyShowtime will launch in 2022
Media Consumption
Euro 2020 scores more streams than the Olympics
UEFA Euro 2020 traffic peaked at 35 Tbps on the Akamai paltform versus a peak of 10 Tbps during the Olympics
Media Delivery
Sky brings Peacock to Europe
Comcast's streaming service will make its international debut in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Switzerland
Business
TVBEurope August 2021 issue released
This month we take a look at streaming, advertising technology, and discover the Secrets of the London Underground
Media Delivery
Report: Most sports fans want to watch on streaming platforms only
A new report by Grabyo suggests that the pay-TV market will only have a 28 per cent customer share of global sports fans by...
Features
Enabling streaming for broadcasters
TVBEurope and MediaKind have produced a webcast looking into the opportunities that event-based content streaming provides to broadcasters
Business
PwC: Industry moving to a new phase of streaming growth
Company's latest edition of its Global Entertainment and Media Outlook report states the industry has regained the momentum lost during the pandemic
Media Consumption
Eurosport reports record digital growth
Numbers for the first half of 2021 sees record digital growth for Eurosport with 75 per cent increase in streaming viewers as it continues...
Media Delivery
Report: 745 VoD services launched in UK, EU and US in four years
Report also found that the number of total AVoD users is significantly higher than SVoD users. In the UK and US
Business
Comcast ‘could acquire Roku’ as it looks to push into streaming
According to reports, the company is looking to expand its presence in the streaming market
Media Delivery
Telefonica Spain streams in the cloud with Harmonic
Harmonic provides VOS360 cloud streaming platform for disaster recovery
Media Consumption
UHD Spain carries out UHD HDR/SDR simulcast
Organisation aims to demonstrate standard's potential both to the industry and viewing public
Media Consumption
Watching one hour of online video is equivalent to boiling an electric kettle three times
The carbon footprint of watching online video on a 50-inch TV is roughly 4.5 times more than watching on a laptop, and 90 times...
Business
Roman Abramovich invests in ‘Russian Netflix’
During 2020, Ivi has the largest share of Russia's streaming market
Business
Discovery, AT&T merge to create new ‘super streamer’
Discovery CEO David Zaslav will lead the new company
Media Delivery
Disney Plus adds another 8.7 million global subs
Streamer has now reached 103 million global subscribers
Media Delivery
Netflix exploring ‘DVD extras’
Streamer is reportedly considering N-Plus, a new feature that would include behind-the-scenes content, user reviews, and even get viewers involved in commissioning
Media Delivery
Conviva: Europe sees 122 per cent streaming growth year-on-year
Latest report also finds viewers are turning to connected TV devices and smart TVs to watch content
Business
Research forecasts OTT revenues to reach $210 billion by 2026
New insight from Digital TV Research indicates that global OTT TV revenues will reach $210 billion in the next five years
Media Delivery
Sony returns to video streaming, but only in Poland
New video service will be available to subscribers across PlayStation 4 and 5 devices for the next year
Media Delivery
What’s the delay? Pushing the limits of ultra-low latency HLS streaming
Recent updates to the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) standard have made new ways of standard-compliant low-latency streaming possible. But how low can the latency...
Media Delivery
BBC iPlayer achieves record-breaking 1.7 billion streams in Q1
The Serpent and Line of Duty help BBC streamer reach new heights
Media Delivery
How streaming providers can create a more intuitive user experience
Marcus Bergström, CEO of Vionlabs, explains why streaming services need to better understand their content
Media Delivery
Akamai: Web traffic hits another all-time high
The company's web traffic has doubled since October 2019
Media Delivery
HBO Max unlikely to debut in UK, Germany or Italy until 2025
Current licensing deals will stop the streamer's launch in certain territories
Media Delivery
How can streaming brands retain customers in 2021?
James Manderson, VP of Global Success at Braze, argues that if 2020 was the year of streaming, then 2021 needs to be the year...
Media Delivery
Global online video subscriptions reach 1 billion
New figures released by the Motion Picture Association
Media Delivery
The streaming wars are over. Nobody won. So, what now?
Gideon Gilboa, EVP Product and Marketing at Kaltura, explains that the time is ripe for pay-TV providers to rise to the challenge of the...
Media Delivery
Mediaset ‘to unify its streaming apps into one’
Mediaset Play Infinity is expected to debut next month
Media Delivery
Disney Plus reaches 100 million subscribers
It took Netflix around six years to reach the same figure
Media Delivery
DAZN hires former Disney D2C boss as chairman of the board
Former Disney D2C chairman Kevin Mayer has been appointed chairman of the board at DAZN Group; incumbent chair John Skipper remains on board of...
Media Delivery
Paramount Plus’ European roll-out to begin with the Nordics
Company plans to have Paramount Plus available "very broadly in almost every major market"
Media Delivery
BBC launches first fully-owned streamer in the US
BBC Select, which is operated by BBC Studios has initially launched to American viewers on Amazon Prime Video Channels and the Apple TV app
Production & Post
Blackmagic debuts self-contained streaming solution, new 6K Pocket Cinema Camera
Company also announced the ATEM Mini Extreme, a larger model of its ATEM Mini live production switcher
Media Delivery
Almost three quarters of UK SvoD subs say streamers ‘have all their content needs’
Amdocs surveyed UK consumers on their subscription habits during lockdown