Yann Madeleine joins Globecast as Director of Sales France
Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has announced that Yann Madeleine has joined the company as Director of Sales, France and will sit on the company’s Executive Committee. He will join Globecast on March 16th, 2020. Madeleine replaces François-Regis Grenot who has taken up a role in ...
Kontron and Anevia Collaborate on New Video Delivery Solution
Kontron, a global provider of cloud and carrier-class integrated hardware platforms, has partnered with Anevia, a leading provider of OTT and IPTV software solutions, to offer a robust edge caching technology designed to reduce video traffic in the core network for operators and improve quality of experience (QoE) ...
DAZN Expanding to More than 200 Countries and Territories
DAZN, the leading global sports streaming service, will dramatically increase its presence in 2020, expanding to more than 200 countries and territories. The first global event on DAZN will be Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez’s soon-to-be-announced fight during Cinco de Mayo Weekend, which will take place on Saturday, May ...
Box Office Still Dominates Growing Global Market for Movies
The latest research from Ampere Analysis confirms the growing global demand for movies, despite radical changes in the entertainment industry. Global consumer spending on movies has grown by nearly 30% over the past decade, encompassing theatrical/cinema, home entertainment*, premium pay TV and subscription OTT. And most film fans ...
So Who Does Win the OTT Streaming Wars?
Earlier this month I suggested that the Streaming Wars should more accurately be described as the Streaming Skirmishes because although this wasn't a winner-takes-all scenario, and that multiple SVOD services could happily coexist, even if (hypothetically) one champion emerged they'd still then need to tackle the wider threats ...
BT Shakes Up UK TV Market With The Launch Of New TV Packages
Exciting new range of flexible TV packages offer customers the freedom to choose the TV shows, films and sport they want, when they want - with the flexibility to change their package every month Customers can watch Sky Atlantic, hundreds of box sets, the latest must-see movies and ...
Content Distribution is Getting More, Not Less, Complicated
“Glass to glass” is an elegant phrase which describes the process by which a piece of content goes from the first screen (the camera lens) to the last (the screen on which a viewer watches a piece a clip, TV show or movie). This description, however, masks a ...
Sky TV Unveils Its Biggest Year Ever, Including 80 Originals
More commissions, more original series, more investment and a world-leading commitment to the environment. Sky today set out its stall for 2020. The news was unveiled Feb. 12 at Sky's "Up Next" showcase event, where the broadcaster shared exclusive previews of brand-new shows due to air this year, ...
A Personal History of TV Innovation (and Bingeing)
1980 My uncle’s house in Peterborough. 4 adults, 7 children, 1 baby. A weekend of watching Indian movies on VCR late into the night. The video recorder was hired. The remote control was wired, connected by a two metre cord to the machine. Delicious midnight feasts: samosas, bhajis, ...
Award-winning US comedy Seinfeld coming to All 4
Regarded as one of the most influential sitcoms, Seinfeld will find a new home on All 4 from 7 February 2020, as part of a streaming deal with Sony Pictures Television (SPT). Originally airing between 1989 to 1998, Seinfeld stars Jerry Seinfeld as a stand-up comedian whose life in New York City is made ...
The Streaming Wars are really the Streaming Skirmishes
It’s tempting to think of The Streaming Wars as a zero sum game in which, based on market caps, we can imagine a scenario where, for example, Disney buys Netflix, Comcast merges with NBCU and Amazon and Apple then vanquish or acquire those houses, claim allegiances, and duke ...
ITV Announces Sanjeevan Bala as its new Group Chief Data & AI Officer
Reporting to Rufus Radcliffe, Chief Marketing Officer and Director of Direct to Consumer, Bala, who joins in May 2020, will lead the transformation of ITV’s group-wide data and Ai strategy, evolving and consolidating the organisation’s data assets, raising the overall data capability and accelerating the adoption of AI ...
British Olympic and Paralympic Sports Prepare for Launch of OTT Platform
A ground-breaking initiative to develop a digital and an Over-The-Top (OTT) broadcast platform for British Olympic and Paralympic sports has today been announced by a group of leading sports’ National Governing Bodies, UK Sport, the British Olympic Association and British Paralympic Association. In their first move, the collective ...
BBC iPlayer Breaks 4 billion Requests for First Time to Record Best Year Ever
BBC iPlayer has broken 4 billion requests to stream programmes for the first time ever, ending the year with an all-time record high of 4.4 billion requests. The 2019 performance is up around 12 per cent on the previous year.* December was BBC iPlayer’s best month of all ...
Subscription Services and Advertising to Push OTT Video Revenue Over US$200 Billion by 2024
The Over-the-Top (OTT) video market will surpass US$200 billion by 2024, with 90% of that value fueled by subscription and advertising revenue, according to a new report by global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research. New services like Disney+ and Apple TV+, coupled with aggressive pricing and packaging, and ...
ITV Studios Appoints Lisa Perrin as Managing Director International Studios
ITV Studios today announces the appointment of Lisa Perrin, as the new Managing Director of its International production business. Perrin joins the company from Endemol Shine Group (ESG) where she held the position of CEO Creative Networks. Reporting directly to Julian Bellamy, Managing Director ITV Studios, Perrin will ...
Jonathan Allan promoted to Channel 4 Chief Operating Officer
Channel 4’s CEO, Alex Mahon has today announced that Jonathan Allan has been promoted to the role of Chief Operating Officer as part of a restructured leadership team which brings together all the key operational functions into a newly expanded COO’s office. In the new role, Allan– who ...
TV Sets Still Dominate Video Entertainment in the US
New research from Parks Associates finds that TV sets still dominate home entertainment, accounting for over one-half of all video consumed by US broadband households each week. 360 View: Digital Media and Connected Consumers reveals consumers report spending on average nearly 20 hours per week watching video on a TV, ...
The Business of Future TV 2020 – Agenda & Schedule
The Business of Future TV conference, 2020, is taking place at the H Club in London on the 29th and 30th of January. You can see our at-a-glance agenda below. Alternatively, here's detailed information about the various talks and panels and our speakers and panellists. DAY 1 - ...
The Business of Future TV 2020 – Talks & Panels
The Business of Future TV conference, 2020, is taking place at the H Club in London on the 29th and 30th of January. You can see our detailed agenda below. Alternatively, here's an at-a-glance view plus information on our speakers and panellists. DAY 1 - Wednesday 29th January ...