European consumers value broadband more than sex, claims a study commissioned by Liberty Global, details of which were published this week. The inference that European consumers prefer surfing the web to other leisure-time pursuits does not, in truth, rest on strong foundations in the data supplied by the AT Kearney report, Viewed through the Lens […]
The European Union’s key institutions – the Commission, Council and Parliament – this week finally agreed new copyright rules in the face of intense opposition and lobbying from internet giants. The agreed deal between the institutions – the outcome of the so-called trilogue process that underpins EU rule-making that had already been subject to delay […]
Data privacy and security scares are rarely out of the news and hardly a week goes by without yet another report of data breaches and misuse, with both Apple and Facebook making recent headlines. A glitch in the Apple FaceTime feature on iPhone iOS 12.1 has made it possible to access FaceTime audio and video […]
You may say I’m a streamer, but I’m not the only one, as John Lennon might have sung had he been chief executive of a Hollywood studio. Media companies’ plans to jump into the streaming world have again been in the news this week, with both Viacom and Disney revealing some of their thinking as […]
TV is undergoing a change unlike anything it has experienced before. Even the introduction of digital TV didn’t upset the business like this. Will DVB play a pivotal role in this new era, like it did in the transition from analogue to digital? We’ll see. When digital broadcast TV was first touted, a small number […]
Voice is growing rapidly as a new user interface through digital assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Google Assistant. Its reach is phenomenal, with more than half of the population in mature markets using voice assistance on a regular basis. As content and information access moves to voice-based interfaces, monetisation becomes an issue. […]
Altice this week entered into exclusive talks to buy a 60% stake in Molotov, the OTT TV startup co-founded by AlloCiné creator Jean-David Blanc, former Canal+ chief Pierre Lescure and former TF1 executive Jean-Marc Denoual, a reversal of fortune for the streaming outfit that has been struggling to secure financial support for the last few […]
The ongoing political dispute between Qatar and those who boycotted it – principally Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE – resulted in a concerted campaign to boycott Qatar commercially as well. One of the casualties was Qatar-headquartered beIN and its premium sports services, for which it had paid huge sums of money for exclusive MENA-wide […]
Comcast and NBCUniversal this week filled in some of the details on their plans for a primarily free-to-view OTT TV service that will target Comcast cable subscribers in the US and Sky customers in Europe, with an SVOD variant available to non-subscribers very much seen as a sideshow. Speaking on Comcast’s full-year earnings call – […]
RTL’s acquisition last week of server-side ad insertion (SSAI) company, Yospace, marks its latest investment in the ad-tech space and is an important move in the context of its ambitious wider digital strategy. Announcing the deal, RTL said that Yospace would complement its current ad-tech stack, at the heart of which lies SpotX – an […]
.@TBImagazine hires Richard Middleton as managing editor
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.@Amazon launches first Fire-branded TVs with #DolbyVision support
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.@YouTube is testing hiding comments by default in effort to combat toxic community
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.@espn takes EXP #esports to the @XGames #ApexLegends
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