Industry Updates

Cord-cutters to be shut out from NBC’s Rio live-video lineup. 14 July 2016

It’s the first Olympic Games that viewers be available to watch live on connected TVs, including Apple TV, Google’s Chromecast, Roku and Amazon Fire devices, and for the first time, NBC broadcast network content including the primetime show will be streamed … Continue reading

Online video market in China has grown at a CAGR of over 70% since 2013 13 July 2016

iResearch, the online video market in China has grown at a CAGR of over 70% since 2013 to become a RMB 14 billion ($1.8 billion) market by the end of 2015.  One of the key factors driving the online video … Continue reading

Taiwan to get it’s first OTT video service 13 July 2016

Fuji Television Network Inc has concluded a strategic partnership with KKTV Co Ltd, the first OTT video service introduced by Asia’s top music streaming service provider KKBOX Group, to launch streaming of a variety of its dramas and variety shows … Continue reading

Third of Youth prefer Video On Demand Services 13 July 2016

The findings are from Ofcom’s Public Service Broadcasting Annual Report 2016, published today, which looks at how well the public service broadcasters – BBC, ITV, STV in Scotland, UTV in Northern Ireland, Channel 4, S4C in Wales and Channel 5 … Continue reading

40% UK Internet Users watch VoD Content on daily basis. 12 July 2016

As the subscriber base of SVoD services continues to grow (9 million subscriptions in the UK, 91 million subscriptions in the US), social video platform YouTube still enjoys the biggest share of viewers in the UK, whilst subscription service Netflix … Continue reading