Industry Updates

Cablevision First Pay TV Provider To Distribute CBS And Showtime Over-The-Top To Broadband Customers 26 August 2015

  Following a similar move which saw it becoming the first internet service provider to distribute HBO NOW to its broadband customers, New York-area cable TV company Cablevision announced this morning that it will offer its internet customers the ability to subscribe to … Continue reading

Hulu Teams Up with Facebook’s LiveRail to Sell Ads Based on User Data 26 August 2015

  Hulu’s ads are going “programmatic”: The Internet TV site is launching an invitation-only ad-buying marketplace powered by Facebook’s LiveRail, to let marketers target ads using data about who’s watching the video. According to Hulu, the new programmatic system will result … Continue reading

Children’s Programming Is The Next Front Line In The Streaming Battle 26 August 2015

  Children’s programming might have just become the new front line in the subscription battle between Netflix, Amazon.com and other major video on demand streaming services to boost subscriber numbers. The services have gotten the most publicity from critically acclaimed … Continue reading

OTT & Smartphone Account For 40% Of Q2 Video Ad Views 26 August 2015

The new Video Monetization Report from FreeWheel, released today, says that smartphones now account for one in five video ad views, a stunning triple-digit increase. Likewise, in the stunning department, nearly 40% of ad views in Q2 happened someplace other … Continue reading

Going OTT: Playing Cool With Rookies As A Service Provider 25 August 2015

  Over-the-top (OTT) content providers and OTT video services that monetise traditional service providers’ infrastructure — fixed and mobile infrastructure in which these operators have invested heavily — are shaking things up in an already competitive market. OTTs are using … Continue reading