streaming

Recovering the satellites: Sky raises smart TV ceiling with Sky Glass

No more satellite dishes or set-top boxes: Sky Glass will mark the first time that consumers can access Sky TV services without the traditional...

Media Consumption

British consumers prefer streaming to pay-TV

Roku’s The Streaming Decade report shows that British viewers are evolving away from pay-TV to streaming content, creating new advertising opportunities for content providers

Media Delivery

HBO Max commits to more European launches in 2022

Streamer announces plans to launch in an additional seven countries, and sets target of 190 countries worldwide by 2026

Business

Roku reportedly set to open engineering hub in Manchester

The streaming giant is currently recruiting for technical and engineering roles in Manchester, and has reportedly identified office space in the city

Media Delivery

Amazon’s IMDb TV launches in the UK

AVoD streamer is available via Amazon's Prime Video app

Media Delivery

discovery plus launches on Amazon Channels UK

Viewers can opt to sign up for just entertainment or add on sport to their package

Media Delivery

NENT Group’s Viaplay expands to UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Viaplay will launch in the UK in the second half of 2022 and then in Germany, Austria and Switzerland during 2023

Media Delivery

HBO Max confirms first European launch dates

Streamer will debut in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra next month

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...