Industry Updates

Twitter to Live-Stream 1,500 Hours of eSports in 2017 07 March 2017

Twitter is going with gun blazing into eSports. The social network giant says it will live stream 1,500 hours of competitive-gaming events this year in a partnership with ESL and DreamHack. The deal includes more than 15 events in Intel Extreme Masters (IEM), … Continue reading

Video to top Spanish digital trends in 2017 06 March 2017

According to Spain’s Internet Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) digital trends forecast, video tops in most of the 12 predictions. According to the report, online streaming video, connected TV, video content, advertising, audience measurement tools and virtual reality will rule digital trends for the year. … Continue reading

Pace for Cord-cutting Quickens 06 March 2017

According to a latest report by analyst Moffet Nathanson, gathering data from all the major pay TV operators, the dumping has been accelerated heavily in the last 12 months. According to Moffet, businesses from traditional Pay TV providers have ended 2016 … Continue reading

Video is set to be a $1 trillion Market for Telcos 06 March 2017

According to a recent report by the Chinese communications infrastructure maker Huawei, Video will account for 50% of all mobile revenues by 2020. The company states that video has $1 trillion revenue opportunity for the telecommunications operators, with entertainment video accounting … Continue reading

HMV Digital China launches a video streaming platform 03 March 2017

Hong Kong’s largest music and DVD retailer HMV Digital China Group has launched an online bilingual video streaming platform – “Hmvod” in order to compete with Netflix and other video streaming services in Hong Kong. The new OTT service offers 1,500 films … Continue reading