Industry Updates

Streaming Media Devices: The Race to Provide ‘Ultimate’ Media Experience 18 September 2015

  Dedicated streaming media devices increasingly threaten to replace the need for a costly smart TV as they have proven to provide a more portable and seamless media experience, at a cheaper cost. Smart TVs still have yet to provide … Continue reading

SPB Survey Highlights Importance Of Targeted Ads 18 September 2015

  SPB TV, a Swiss provider of OTT platforms, IPTV and mobile TV services, presented a large scale OTT survey at IBC this year, with bad news for non-targeted advertisements and findings that support trends of mobile devices running away … Continue reading

Television Executives Signal A Shift In Relationship With Netflix 18 September 2015

  Two of the biggest US television network owners have signaled a shift in their relationship with Netflix, amid fears that the popularity of the VOD service is accelerating a wave of defections from the pay-television industry by “cord-cutting” customers. Netflix … Continue reading

BBC To Offer Online Streaming In U.S. Starting Next Year 18 September 2015

  It is slowly becoming a trend for conventional networks to embrace the digital age and start offering over-the-top online streaming of their linear channel. HBO has done this, Showtime has done this and many others are in the process of … Continue reading

Mobile TV Viewing Jumps 7% In One Year 18 September 2015

  More than a third of consumers who watch TV shows online use a smartphone for TV viewing (37%), a figure that has risen 7 points from 2014 (30%), according to new data from Hub’s annual “Finding Input One” study. … Continue reading