Industry Updates

Turkish Telecoms Face Increasing Triple-play Competition 26 August 2015

  Fitch Ratings expects that increased focus on bundled services like online video on demand, within the Turkish telecoms market could lead to an increase in content costs, especially for live football broadcast rights. Expanding pay-TV services can help telecoms … Continue reading

Yahoo’s Most Vocal Investor Wants To Turn It In To A Video Streamer 26 August 2015

  Hedge fund manager and influential shareholder Eric Jackson has a long and complicated history with Yahoo and its CEO, Marissa Mayer. Jackson has been an on-and-off shareholder in Yahoo since 2006, and during that time he has never shied … Continue reading

Cablevision First Pay TV Provider To Distribute CBS And Showtime Over-The-Top To Broadband Customers 26 August 2015

  Following a similar move which saw it becoming the first internet service provider to distribute HBO NOW to its broadband customers, New York-area cable TV company Cablevision announced this morning that it will offer its internet customers the ability to subscribe to … Continue reading

Hulu Teams Up with Facebook’s LiveRail to Sell Ads Based on User Data 26 August 2015

  Hulu’s ads are going “programmatic”: The Internet TV site is launching an invitation-only ad-buying marketplace powered by Facebook’s LiveRail, to let marketers target ads using data about who’s watching the video. According to Hulu, the new programmatic system will result … Continue reading

Children’s Programming Is The Next Front Line In The Streaming Battle 26 August 2015

  Children’s programming might have just become the new front line in the subscription battle between Netflix, Amazon.com and other major video on demand streaming services to boost subscriber numbers. The services have gotten the most publicity from critically acclaimed … Continue reading