Russia pay TV leader Tricolor TV plans to launch internet-connected TV services as well as making TV everywhere services available to subscribers on the go as well as those at home this year, according to CEO Alexei Kholodov. In an interview with local title The Standard, Kholodov also said there was plenty of room for […]
BBC Worldwide has launched BBC Player, a branded TV Everywhere service in partnership with Singaporean pay TV giant StarHub. TV Everywhere services have proved popular with channels and operators in the US in particular, and allow authenticated pay TV subs to stream channels from their pay TV bundle. The branded BBC Player, which is now […]
Cable technology provider WISI has used ANGA COM to launch Project Katamaran, a new multiscreen and OTT offering targeted a medium-sized operators looking to launch TV Everywhere services as well as other OTT providers. The offering is based on the acquisition earlier this year of the technology used to power the abortive Aereo service in […]
TV everywhere consumption is “slowly moving toward” connected devices like Apple TV and Roku boxes, according to new research by Adobe Digital Index. Though Apple’s iOS operating system still sees the bulk of TV everywhere (TVE) authentications, its share decreased 20% year-on-year while connected devices saw 31% growth, said the Q4 Digital Video Benchmark report. […]
In 2019 some 10.3% of total occupied US households will take over-the-top services, according to research by SNL Kagan. According to the numbers, revealed at a breakfast briefing in London this week, SNL said there will be 12.9 million OTT homes in the US in 2019, up from an estimated 10.5 million in 2016. Over […]
More than half of consumers in pay TV homes have used TV Everywhere services to watch content, according to a North American study by GfK. The report says that though ‘TV Everywhere’ as a brand name is still struggling to build awareness among consumers, 53% of pay TV viewers have used these services – up 10 […]
Discovery has launched its first US TV everywhere streaming service, Discovery Go, with a content offering spanning nine US channels – Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Science Channel, Velocity, Destination America, American Heroes Channel and Discovery Life. The launch of the service was timed to coincide with today’s worldwide premier of flagship documentary […]
TV Everywhere viewing in the US was up 63% year-on-year in the second quarter, according to Adobe’s latest Digital Video Benchmark report. The study said that some 12.7% of pay TV viewers were watching this content on different devices in Q2 2015, a 19% jump over Q4 2014, but down slightly compared to Q1 2015. […]
One in four authenticated video streams from TV everywhere services came from a connected TV device in Q1 – up from just one in 20 a year ago, according to new research. The new report by Adobe Digital Index (ADI) claims that larger screens are helping to “close the gap in video viewing frequency” between mobile […]
Comcast subscribers in the US can now access the HBO Go and Showtime Anytime TV everywhere apps on Amazon’s Fire TV devices. The apps are available on both the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick devices where subscribers can sign in to their Comcast Xfinity TV account, and immediately start watching the channel’s shows […]
