Industry Updates

Time Shifting Has Become The Default for modern TV audience 20 March 2015

  According to the recent The Hub Entertainment Research survey, conducted among 1,210 TV viewers aged 16-74 who watch at least 5 hours of TV per week and who have broadband access at home, ad avoidance is a factor in … Continue reading

Yahoo Bets on TV-Style Comedies to Grow Its Video Business 19 March 2015

Yahoo’s U.S. video audience at that point was at 44.9 million unique monthly desktop users, up 2.7% from the year before, according to comScore. It wasn’t exactly languishing — but Wall Street was champing at the bit for Yahoo to … Continue reading

OTT is keeping network operators on their toes, believes Eckhart Zollner of Jasco Group 19 March 2015

From converged multimedia services such as High Definition (HD) audio and video on to social platforms, screen sharing, VoD platforms and other bandwidth-intensive, high data volume services, OTT has revolutionized data consumption. OTTs essentially create virtual communities and virtual networks, … Continue reading

Department of Revenue in Alabama Issues Proposed Regulation Taxing Digital Streaming Services 19 March 2015

The Alabama Department of Revenue has issued a proposed regulation that, if finalized in its present form, would substantially expand the scope of the state and local rental tax applied to VoD platforms and other digital streaming services. The expanded rental … Continue reading

IPTV doubles up, DTH still standing its ground in Spain 19 March 2015

  With direct-to-home (DTH) still being the second most used technology for TV reception in Spain, IPTV has doubled, now reaching 1.56 million homes, while digital terrestrial television (DTT) holds the throne despite losing over half a million connections. According … Continue reading

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