streaming

Wales v England peaks at 18.7m on BBC, while iPlayer enjoys best ever week

BBC announces that 18.7 million tune in to its coverage of Wales v England as BBC iPlayer reports its best ever week

BBC R&D provides update on eliminating streaming latency

Streaming coverage of the World Cup in Qatar has once again highlighted issues around latency between streamed coverage and TV broadcast... something BBC R&D...

Media Consumption

Global OTT revenues to hit $243 billion by 2028

Revenues from OTT television and movies predicted to generate $17 billion in 2023, growing to $243 billion globally by 2028

Media Delivery

Gone in 13.4 seconds

A new survey by Bitmovin reveals poor video quality and buffering issues could cost video streamers as much as £45 million per month

Media Delivery

Arqiva, MainStreaming forge technology and services partnership

Two companies are working together on a range of new capabilities and service offerings to meet the challenges of the fast-changing streaming world

Media Consumption

Study: The way UK viewers watch sport is ‘nearing a tipping point’

Study by Grabyo suggests sports fans in the UK are increasingly choosing to watch content on their smartphones or via a streaming device over...

Media Management

Netflix deploys open source software in worldwide content operations

The GPAC Project on Advanced Content is an open source software that provides a modular multimedia framework for packaging, streaming, inspecting and playing content

Media Delivery

ITVX to launch in time for World Cup Final

Broadcaster is promising viewers will see a "new and improved product experience"

Media Delivery

Combined HBO Max/Discovery Plus streamer to launch in the spring

The two services jointly added 2.8 million customers in during Q3 20222, said the company, which means the number of paid subscribers to WBD's...

Media Management

Scientists set new data transmission record of 1.8 petabits per second

The researchers transmitted 1.8 Pbit/s, which was carried by the light from one optical source. That corresponds to twice the current global internet traffic

Media Delivery

Tadum! Netflix subscriber numbers bounce back in Q3

Streamer's global subscriber base is now 223.1 million

Media Delivery

Kantar: Almost a million UK households have dropped a streamer so far in 2022

Kantar's figures also reveal almost half of churned Netflix subscribers have dropped out of the SVoD category altogether

Media Delivery

Netflix now in direct competition with free-to-air broadcasters

The streamers move to incorporate an ad service was not part of the company's script, but is a significant move which takes it in...

Media Consumption

Netflix signs up to BARB

BARB is the first industry-owned audience currency in the world that Netflix has joined. The board will now report daily Netflix viewing from 1...

Media Delivery

New solution aims to remove complexity of video streaming

The new Streams solution is a culmination of existing products in the Bitmovin range: Bitmovin Player, Encoding, and Analytics

Media Delivery

Bitmovin aims to develop a climate-friendly video streaming platform

Project GAIA aims to identify ways to improve sustainability and reduce energy consumption across the end-to-end video streaming chain

Media Delivery

Starz adds another streamer to the market with rebrand as Lionsgate Plus

Lionsgate Plus is available in a number of European markets

Media Delivery

Sky moves further away from satellite with launch of Sky Stream

All content on Sky Stream will be available in HD as standard, with UHD also available

Business

DAZN agrees deal to acquire rival ELEVEN Sports

The deal will see DAZN gain the rights to top-tier football in both Portugal and Belgium, as well as its existing rights deals in...

Media Delivery

Paramount Plus arrives in Italy

Paramount Plus will also launch on Sky platforms in Italy as part of a new multi-year distribution agreement

Media Delivery

Six US-based platforms to account for 81 per cent of all SVoD subscriptions in Western Europe by 2027

Netflix is predicted to add three million more subscribers in Western Europe over the next five years, with its share of the total number...

Business

Is digitally-driven disruption in the media industry starting to slow?

Newly launched Content Connect Initiative plans to work with the media industry to explore perspectives on the evolution of the industry and the priorities...

Media Delivery

Red Bee Media deploys Synamedia’s Quortex for disaster recovery

Quortex’s cloud-native solution provisions back-up resources only when required, which will help Red Bee reduce energy use and meet its sustainability goals

Media Management

Alibaba Cloud aims to support European customers with new video solutions

ApsaraVideo Live and ApsaraVideo VOD aim to support broadcasters with live broadcast services and video production and management tasks

Media Delivery

Europe’s latest streamer to launch later this month

SkyShowtime is powered by Comcast's Peacock platform, and has been created specifically for Europe

Media Delivery

Poland predicted to drive Eastern European SVoD revenues over next five years

Analysts predict Eastern European SVoD revenues will reach $2.95 billion by 2027 – up from $1.60 billion in 2021

Business

The state of the industry: Is M&A back on the agenda for tech vendors?

Ahead of IBC, TVBEurope talks to Devoncroft Partners' Josh Stinehour to discuss the current state of the media tech industry and why he's feeling...

Media Delivery

Netflix’s ad-supported tier may stop users from downloading content

An independent developer has reportedly found code that informs users they can not download content on the streamer's forthcoming advertising plan

Media Consumption

Amazon Interactive Video Service basic channels adds support for HD and Full HD inputs

The expanded functionality is designed to enable streamers and viewers globally to enjoy higher video quality when using a basic channel

Business

NativeWaves, Net Insight announce technology partnership

Going forward, all NativeWaves EXP customers will receive their services via Nimbra Edge

Media Consumption

Live events help BBC iPlayer break more records

Glastonbury was Q2's best performing boxset with 36 million streams up to the end of June, and 39.4 million to date

Media Delivery

Disney signs intellectual property licence agreement with DivX

Disney will gain access to DivX’s global portfolio of video technology patents

Media Delivery

Disney surpasses Netflix in terms of total subscribers

Company has announced its new Disney Plus advertising-funded tier will launch in the United States on 8th December

Media Delivery

Warner Bros Discovery confirms plans to merge HBO Max and discovery Plus

New unnamed streaming service will launch in the United States next summer, with other markets to follow

Media Delivery

Live sports streaming at scale with the cloud

With the return of domestic football, Eric Gallier, VP, video customer solutions at Harmonic, explores the current issues facing service providers offering live sports...

Media Delivery

Streaming Video Alliance rebrands to embrace technology

SVTA executive director Jason Thibeault said the new brand "clearly supports" the story that the Alliance wants to convey: that is a technical association...