Industry Updates

JungoTV Launches an innovative OTT Platform 10 June 2016

JungoTV announced an innovative platform that provides the best foreign language television and film content from around the globe to serve the massive need of the more than 100 million people around the world eager to have access to content … Continue reading

Rostelecom to expand its product offering in Moscow through launching IPTV services 08 June 2016

Rostelecom announces the launch of its OnLime IPTV service in Moscow. By launching this service in Moscow, Rostelecom’s IPTV service is now available to customers nationwide. Moscow is one of the most attractive markets that Rostelecom has been actively developing … Continue reading

Sports broadcaster ESPN Inc. launched a set of mobile first digital products for India 07 June 2016

Sports broadcaster ESPN Inc. has launched a set of mobile first digital products for India including a multi-sport website and the ESPN app, seeking to tap into a large and potentially lucrative, but highly competitive market for sports content. Both … Continue reading

YouTube RED launches in Australia 23 May 2016

YouTube Red is now available in Australia. One can get ad-free content, stream videos offline and easily access other features without stopping the video. YouTube Red also provides an access to exclusive YouTube Original content from some of the site’s … Continue reading

Flash vs HTML5 as preferred online video player 25 April 2016

Video streaming players based on Flash still exist. Flash, Adobe’s popular player that faced a lot of heat from Apple, has given way for HTML5 based web video players. But Flash is still prevalent on many online video player sites, … Continue reading

GoPro announces live streaming for VR 18 April 2016

GoPro unveiled GoPro VR, a 360 degree virtual reality video channel and LiveVR – a tool for wireless VR streaming. GoPro VR will be available on the web as well as on iOS and Android apps. It will have curated … Continue reading

LeEco investing in CDN for video on demand service in India 01 April 2016

IOT company LeEco, which entered the Indian market with smartphones earlier this year, has announced that it will be investing over $10 million to start an in-house Content Delivery Networks (CDN) in India. It will be launched in 10 cities, … Continue reading

Smart STBs growing in demand 31 March 2016

Increase in demand for interactive TV in many developed regions is fueling the need for smarter set top boxes having mobile connectivity, HEVC codec support, 4K resolution and many others. Hence there is pressure on equipment manufacturers to satisfy the … Continue reading

Chromecast leads OTT video streaming with 35%, Apple at 20% 11 March 2016

Sales of Google’s Chromecast dongles have crossed Apple’s. The market share of the Google product is 35% while Apple’s share has fallen from 28% in 2014 to 20% in 2015. Roku and Amazon, the other popular streaming devices are at … Continue reading

As TV Approaches Golden Age, TV Ratings Also Need To Evolve 06 November 2015

  Nielsen’s TV ratings have been consistently generating mixed reviews from the TV industry due to its measurement criteria. In fact, many have gone on to label it incorrect and sometimes biased. FOX Exec Chairman Lachlan Murdoch has voiced his … Continue reading