When Boris Johnson’s Conservative party was elected in late 2019, one of the first things the prime minister did was to send chancellor Rishi Sunak on national television to launch a public inquiry into the criminalisation of non-payment of the licence fee. Fast forward 21 months or so and the government has a new culture […]
It is of little surprise that YouTube is a huge money maker for Google. The video platform is the second most-visited website on the internet behind only Google itself, and registers 2 billion monthly active users including 120 million who watch on their smart TVs. All of that translates to a significant amount of money […]
After years of silence, Sky may be on the verge of launching a streaming-only version of Sky Q in the UK. Initially proposed by then-CEO Stephen van Rooyen in 2017 and slated for a 2018 launch, such a product was launched earlier this month in Germany bringing new speculation surrounding a UK rollout. This culminated […]
Seemingly out of nowhere, Comcast-owned Sky this week announced a European collaborative streaming project with ViacomCBS. The service, dubbed SkyShowtime, will reach more than 20 European territories encompassing 90 million homes. Importantly for Sky, the SVOD will be launched in markets outside the operator’s existing pay TV and OTT footprint. Details on pricing and a […]
European governments and broadcasters in recent years have been somewhat helpless to curb the ‘invasion’ of US media giants. Perhaps the biggest example is Netflix. The California-based streaming company is the largest in the world and – save for a handful of markets where local players with bolstered rights portfolios are in the lead – […]
Automatic speech recognition and other ML technologies are enabling streaming providers to realize tremendous efficiencies in the media captions workflow. Thanks to the latest advancements in ML, video service providers can ensure that when content is delivered in different geographies and quality levels for OTT platforms, captions maintain outstanding quality. Delivering high-quality captions is becoming even more […]
Over the past seven days, two giants of US broadcasting – NBCUniversal and ViacomCBS – have announced partnerships with Sky to roll out their respective streaming services in Europe. In the case of NBCU’s Peacock, a rollout on Sky is unsurprising given that they share the same parent company in Comcast, but it is the […]
After something of a stumbling start of carriage issues and technical errors, HBO Max has established itself as a major streaming competitor in the US. While it is still some way off Netflix’s 209 million subscribers, the streaming leader this week recorded its worst quarter for growth since its business was built around DVD rentals. […]
There was perhaps a touch of the inevitable when it was announced that Netflix had officially hired a videogames industry expert to lead its foray into the space. Ever since it published the interactive movie Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, both the videogame and TV industry has speculated on when, not if, it will dive deeper into […]
The media industry has seen accelerated changes in consumer behaviour over the past year. As a result, service providers are seeking new solutions to offer more socially engaging experiences to the masses and take advantage of new markets that are opening up. To gain ground in the streaming space, grow audience reach and increase subscriber […]
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