Industry Updates

English League football boosts SVoD in China 13 March 2015

Subscription video on demand (SVOD) will rise to 28.3 million users in China in 2016, as OTT video streaming platforms secure exclusive rights to paid sports content such as English Premier League, finds new report from Pyramid Research. The report … Continue reading

RNIB backs a new VoD app for the blind 13 March 2015

Blind and partially sighted people in the UK are set to benefit from a new app that will open up video on-demand services that up until now have had limited provision of audio description. The app, called MovieReading, which is … Continue reading

VoD Service VIDI calls for uncapped mobile broadband in South Africa 12 March 2015

Video-on-demand (VOD) service VIDI has weighed in on the current uncapped mobile broadband debate, saying that the dearth of wholesale mobile broadband offerings is holding the country’s entertainment industry back. The conversation around true uncapped mobile broadband has again been brought … Continue reading

Video Streamers are pushing Cable TV out of the game 12 March 2015

Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau claims that as much as 40% of TV-rating declines in the third and fourth quarters were attributable to video streaming services. The news comes as TV viewing has declined by an estimated 10% from a year previously in … Continue reading

Feud between Telcos and OTT players grows at Mobile World Congress 2015 12 March 2015

Held in Barcelona last week, the most recent iteration of the annual conference for everything mobile saw several senior executives representing major telco operators still expressing discontent with the way Internet giants such as Facebook Inc and Google Inc are … Continue reading