DAZN Drives Global Growth with Social Video through Grabyo Partnership
DAZN, the online sports streaming service owned by DAZN Group, has enjoyed an impressive 2018 leveraging the power of social video to bolster its brand awareness and drive subscription growth using Grabyo. DAZN has used Grabyo’s platform to deploy a targeted video distribution strategy across its social channels on ...
ITV Studios Produced 8,500 Hours of Content in 2018
ITV Studios - and its associated labels which are part of ITV Studios - produced a record high of 8,500 hours of content in 2018. The company, which now has more entertainment shows in more territories than ever before, produced five of the top ten best-performing shows (as ...
Guigo TV selects Globecast as content partner for its new Brazilian OTT platform
Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, announces it has partnered with Såo Paulo, Brazil-based Guigo TV to provide 12 channels in Brazil for Guigo TV’s new OTT platform. The channels cover various genres including sports, lifestyle and children’s programming. The channels include Bloomberg, Combat Go, Freckle, ...
Mediamorph Achieves Record-Setting Year in New Customer Acquisitions in 2018
Customers across the entire entertainment ecosystem are leveraging Mediamorph's Content Value Management (CVM) platform to drive innovation and accelerate growth
SpotX Releases Predictions About 2019 Video Advertising Trends in New Report
Research shows four key changes in OTT, traditional TV, online video, data activation, and transparency within the video advertising landscape
UKTV Play invests in AI to enhance user experience
New app uses machine learning and "constant algorithm adjustments" to learn viewing preferences and surface content
Investment in UK Content Tops £1bn Per Annum
Investment in UK content by multichannel broadcasters has grown by 75% on 2011, yielding an increase in annual investment by multichannel broadcasters of £416m
NBCUniversal to Launch New D2C Service
Launching in 2020, new service will be ad-supported and reach 90m US households
IMDb Launches Freedive – A Free Streaming Video Channel Featuring Hit Movies and TV Shows
New service will be supported by advertising and will be available on the IMDb website and all Amazon Fire TV devices
Grabyo teams up with Tennis Australia to expand global content offering ahead of Australian Open
Grabyo will enable the creation of engaging video experiences for tennis fans worldwide
Hulu Tops 25m Total Subscribers in 2018
48% YOY subscriber increase fuelled by investments in technology and exclusive content
2019 Predictions in Media & Entertainment
In 2018, media and entertainment providers have worked hard to revolutionise the way they deliver content to consumers across a changing media landscape, especially in terms of gaining a deeper understanding of metadata to connect viewers to content. Charles Dawes, senior director, international marketing at TiVo, takes a look at what trends and developments he predicts may emerge in 2019.
VOD Industry 101: New Staff Briefing
Not a complete guide but here’s some of the material that we cover when a new starter joins VOD Professional. A new recruit, Juliana, joined us here at VOD Professional last month and on her first day, I gave her an overview of the online video industry. I ...
10 VOD Talking Points for 2019
Eschewing the tradition of trying to predict what’s going to happen over the next year, here instead are some OTT industry developments that I think we’ll be talking about in 2019.
RTL Group to Acquire Yospace
Yospace solution provides targeted and seamless advertising insertion on streaming services; its acquisition will help to further grow RTL Group’s global ad-tech business and to build local streaming champions
TiVo Releases New Churn Analysis from its Personalised Content Discovery Platform
Key findings reveal that activating a full suite of personalisation tools reduces churn from a pay-TV subscriber universe up to three times
Sky invests in Synamedia
Synamedia, the largest independent video software provider, today announced that Sky, Europe’s leading media and entertainment company, has taken a stake in the business, joining majority shareholder the Permira funds. Sky’s shareholding reinforces Synamedia’s position as a strategic long-term technology partner to a growing roster of market-leading pay-TV ...
Digital Now Makes up 72% of all UK Video Revenues
Overall video spend in 2018 was £2.34 billion, up 26% on 2017. Physical retail was down 17%; physical rental revenues now just £31.8 million.
Accedo Raises $17M in Growth Capital to Accelerate Innovation
Accedo, the video experience pioneer has today revealed that it has raised $17M in equity to further drive its growth over the coming years. This round of financing was led by SEB Private Equity, a Stockholm based private equity team and already a substantial investor in Accedo. Accedo was ...
Synamedia launches Credentials Sharing Insight
Turns casual password sharing into incremental revenues for service providers