Industry Updates

VoD will drive fibre home with new FTTH technology in South Africa 20 March 2015

Broadband speed, availability and pricing have all made great strides in South Africa in the past few years, largely as a result of the connection of multiple undersea cables on the East and West Coast of Southern Africa. The delivery … Continue reading

Time Shifting Has Become The Default for modern TV audience 20 March 2015

  According to the recent The Hub Entertainment Research survey, conducted among 1,210 TV viewers aged 16-74 who watch at least 5 hours of TV per week and who have broadband access at home, ad avoidance is a factor in … Continue reading

Yahoo Bets on TV-Style Comedies to Grow Its Video Business 19 March 2015

Yahoo’s U.S. video audience at that point was at 44.9 million unique monthly desktop users, up 2.7% from the year before, according to comScore. It wasn’t exactly languishing — but Wall Street was champing at the bit for Yahoo to … Continue reading

OTT is keeping network operators on their toes, believes Eckhart Zollner of Jasco Group 19 March 2015

From converged multimedia services such as High Definition (HD) audio and video on to social platforms, screen sharing, VoD platforms and other bandwidth-intensive, high data volume services, OTT has revolutionized data consumption. OTTs essentially create virtual communities and virtual networks, … Continue reading

Department of Revenue in Alabama Issues Proposed Regulation Taxing Digital Streaming Services 19 March 2015

The Alabama Department of Revenue has issued a proposed regulation that, if finalized in its present form, would substantially expand the scope of the state and local rental tax applied to VoD platforms and other digital streaming services. The expanded rental … Continue reading