VOD

Sky Switzerland selects Zattoo’s Stream API suite

Sky Switzerland hopes to streamline workflows and expand its monetisation opportunities

Opinion: How EPG and personalisation are shaping the future of FAST

Sri Hari Thirunavukkarasu, EMEA SVP sales, at Amagi, talks to TVBEurope about the changing roles of EPG and content personalisation in the FAST environment...

Media Consumption

WBD surges to UK’s third-most popular SVoD in latest Kantar EoD study

Sport content has been a key driver for 1 in 4 new subscribers, helping Warner Bros Discovery (TNT/EuroSport/discovery+) increase market share, said Kantar

Media Delivery

Opinion: is super aggregation still the way forward for pay-TV operators?

Steve Russell, vice president, video entertainment solutions at Irdeto, looks at ways to meet the challenges of super-aggregation in a fragmented content environment

Media Delivery

Sportall adds Bitmovin solutions for playback and monitoring

Bitmovin Player aims to improve Sportall's time to market when delivering streams to different iOS and Android devices

Live Production

Rohde & Schwarz Pixel Power drives graphics and playout at SWR

The solution can operate on-premises, in the cloud or as a hybrid

Media Consumption

Report: We’re still glued to our TVs as linear and VoD viewing increased globally in 2023

2023 also saw significant improvements in Quality of Experience globally with a decrease of 38 per cent in the buffering ratio, said NPAW's report

Media Consumption

The trends of 2023: A renewed focus on the value of data

Patrick Béhar, global CEO, Kantar Media, takes TVBEurope through the changing streaming landscape in 2023, and why he believes broadcasters and platforms need to...

Features

Industry partnerships accelerate AI-augmented video streaming

Partnerships between video streaming ecosystem experts are key to fostering innovation, writes Alain Pellen, senior manager, OTT and IPTV solutions, at Harmonic

Media Delivery

Unlocking streaming experimentation with flexible technology foundations

In the fast-evolving streaming landscape, flexibility isn't just an advantage; it's a necessity, writes Thomas Box, director of solutions engineering, media and entertainment, Edgio

Media Consumption

Hybrid video on demand in growth, says report

Hybrid video on demand (HVoD) services are becoming more prevalent as subscription premium video platforms embrace ad-supported tiers, according to new research in the FreeWheel...

Media Delivery

What cost of living crisis? Number of UK homes with one SVoD subscription rises in Q2 2023

The research also found 7 per cent of British households took out a new streaming subscription in the second quarter of 2023, up from...

Media Consumption

Women’s World Cup forecasted to attract 1.4 billion followers

New research from WSC Sports forecasts that growth in 'avid followers' of the Women’s World Cup is set to increase by 57%, from 929...

Media Consumption

Is streaming killing the video star?

A new report from Ampere Analysis reveals that almost half of internet users say they have switched off broadcast TV and watch more than...

Media Management

Vizrt replaces Multichannel with new automated branding solution

Viz Channel Branding introduces greater automation, control, stability, and visibility for branding and channel cross-promotion needs across all linear and on-demand outputs, said the...

Media Consumption

New on demand research shows struggle for Netflix in UK

Kantar's UK entertainment on demand study shows promising signs for ITVX and AppleTV+, while Netflix experiences a gradual decline across all areas, including content...

Features

Delivering streaming media: reimagining CDNs

Greg Burns, head of media products, Arqiva looks at the ways streaming media providers (including traditional broadcasters) are looking to improve their approaches to...

Media Delivery

Unified Streaming launches new API combining VoD and live sources

The solution repurposes and mixes pre-encoded media assets, previously prepared for VoD streaming, into a live linear stream

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

Business

MEDIAGENIX acquires video distribution services company BeBanjo

The acquisition generates a broad solution portfolio combining MEDIAGENIX's WHATS’ON Media Business Management Platform with BeBanjo’s Movida VoD-first solution

Media Delivery

European streamers launch VoD Coalition

Organisation aims to encourage VoD companies to continue to invest in Europe, and policy makers not to over regulate

Media Management

Imagine takes to the cloud with Aviator

“This is a fully cloud based platform that covers the entire scope of planning, making and monetising any form of video content,” Imagine president...

Media Delivery

Report: 745 VoD services launched in UK, EU and US in four years

Report also found that the number of total AVoD users is significantly higher than SVoD users. In the UK and US

Media Delivery

Globecast, Viaccess-Orca, Mainstreaming partner on end-to-end OTT platform

New app is fully customisable and is pre-integrated into Viaccess-Orca’s TV platform

Business

TV advertising ‘unlikely to recoup 2020’s losses until next year’

Wider TV market lags behind UK media landscape, but VoD advertising is bouncing back

Media Delivery

Unified Streaming enables OTT providers to take VoD content live

French OTT provider Alchemie is already beta-testing Remix VOD2Live to further utilise the VoD catalogue of one of its customers and add new advertising...

Media Delivery

DPP publishes VoD onboarding guidance

Guidance breaks down the onboarding process into a structured set of steps which enable organisations to simplify and improve communication, documentation, and technical integration

Live Production

LiveU, Blackbird partner on end-to-end live and VoD production

LiveU feeds can be ingested into the Blackbird editing workflow in near real-time

Media Delivery

ITV employs DIMPACT web app to build sustainable design into its VoD service

App enables users to understand their ‘downstream’ carbon impacts, right through to the end-user

Business

Analyst: European VoD revenues increased 30-fold between 2010-2020

Report suggests paid VoD revenues are still a small fraction of total audiovisual revenues in the EU (7 per cent of €114.5 billion in...

Media Management

RTVE selects VSN for MAM, Cerberus Tech enables live content self-management, and more

TVBEurope rounds up the latest products and solutions news from VSN, 24i, Verizon Media, Cerberus Tech and Riedel.

Media Consumption

Why the paradox of choice will bring content together in virtual channels

Unified Streaming's Simon Westbroek explains why using playlist-based workflows offers content owners an opportunity to go a step further and curate channels from a...

Media Delivery

Digital film sales surpass discs for the first time

PVoD content accounted for 6.2 per cent of all digital rentals over the lockdown period according to BASE

Media Management

BritBox selects M2A Media’s VoD Workflow for Canadian expansion

Workflow is being used to transcode, package and deliver VoD content with subtitles and technical metadata for BritBox's launch on Amazon Prime Video in...