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BT’s Petter calls for Ofcom to review UK pay-TV 10 July 2015
John Petter, CEO of BT’s Consumer Division today called on Ofcom to formally amend the scope of its Digital Communications Review to include pay-TV. In a speech to the Broadcasting Press Guild, Petter compared the falling prices, rising speeds … Continue reading
Mobile streaming services: A new way to play 09 July 2015
Old methods of enjoying video are rapidly fading and they are giving way to mobile streaming services, making for a worldwide phenomenon! Within the next five years, mobile video traffic will grow to be about 60% of all mobile … Continue reading
Argentina’s government is starting its own Netflix knockoff 09 July 2015
Argentina’s president loves Netflix so much she decided to create her own version. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is putting into motion plans to create a new Netflix-style online video on demand streaming platform that will feature only a … Continue reading
Popcorn Time: ‘We’re being made an easy scapegoat for explosion in movie streaming piracy’ 08 July 2015
Popcorn Time, a service commonly known as the “Netflix for Pirates” that allows users to stream pirated content without physically downloading the video file, is now being blamed for the sharp increase in movie piracy by many countries. According … Continue reading
Australians flock to on-demand streaming 08 July 2015
Around 2 million Australians were using paid movie and TV streaming services like Netflix and Stan at the end of June, according to research. This is up from 315,000 subscriptions at the end of December 2014, with new services, free … Continue reading
SVOD subs churn at faster rate than pay-TV customers 07 July 2015
While SVOD platforms like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video have been lauded for easy, immediate customer sign-up processes, the fact that exiting these services is just as convenient results in churn that is significantly higher than what … Continue reading
‘TV Everywhere’ Builds Up Box Office Watcher Rentrak 07 July 2015
A less-known fact is that the total hours of primetime viewing across live TV, digital video recorders and VOD services are on the rise, according to Rentrak, a TV and movie measurement firm out of Portland, Ore. Rentrak is … Continue reading
Daily newspapers’ online video content should not be subject to on-demand regulations, says EU court advisor 06 July 2015
Video content published by daily newspapers on their websites should not be subject to regulation under the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive, a legal advisor to the EU’s highest court has said. Advocate general Maciej Szpunar said that … Continue reading
Time for a Reality Check Among TV’s Streaming Services 06 July 2015
In the burgeoning world of subscription VOD services, all ventures are not created equal. That’s a notion easy to lose sight of in 2015 as one TV network after another pushes out an over-the-top extension that makes programming available … Continue reading
FCC Chairman lays out schedule for future broadband actions 06 July 2015
During a speech last Friday at the Brookings Institution, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler outlined the FCC’s upcoming agenda for broadband-related issues such as the classification of over-the-top (OTT) online video services. The Chairman reiterated his view of the FCC … Continue reading
