Facebook eyes dedicated video streaming 02 February 2016
After the success of auto-play videos, Facebook is now looking to expand its video streaming services. 500 million users access videos on Facebook each day. A 100 million hours of video are now being accessed every single day. Mark Zuckerberg said … Continue reading
GoPro & Periscope join hands for live video streaming 02 February 2016
Periscope (owned by twitter) has teamed up with GoPro to provide video streaming on the go. Available only on iOS, this promises users to broadcast their live GoPro video content in real time. For this, the GoPro Wifi model needs … Continue reading
Consumers Spending Over $6 per Month on Netflix, Hulu Plus & Other SVOD 29 January 2016
Parks Associates announced a new research report today showing average monthly spending on Internet-based subscription VOD services among U.S. broadband households increased from $3.71 per month in 2012 to $6.19 per month in 2015.Content Strategies: Survival in the New Video World … Continue reading
Cable vs Subscription VOD : The Numbers 29 January 2016
Parks Associates says 60 percent of SVOD subscribers have canceled one or more service in the past year. Yet they appear to ping to other services instead of abandoning SVOD altogether, accounting for the healthy growth. Here’s a … Continue reading
Oz TV Execs Are Excited About OzTAM DTV Ratings 29 January 2016
Television executives have welcomed an announcement from OzTAM that its much-hyped digital TV ratings service will be launched in coming weeks. Networks have been eagerly awaiting the new measuring system, known as Video Player Measurement (VPM), because it will record audiences … Continue reading
Content Discovery Investments Now Paying Off For SVOD 28 January 2016
The trend toward the shift in the time spent on subscription over-the-top (OTT) and video-on-demand (VOD) services from pay-TV firms could be down to investment in recommendation and discovery services, a Digitalsmiths report reveals. In its Q3 2015 Video Trends … Continue reading
FCC Promotes TV Everywhere, Blow For Cable Lobby 28 January 2016
Pay-TV providers would have to make video programming available to the makers of third-party devices and software under a proposal by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler. The FCC is planning for a software-based, cardless replacement for CableCard. Without needing a … Continue reading
4G LTE Subscriptions Will Reach 1b, Encourage SVOD : Ovum 28 January 2016
Analyst firm Ovum has revealed research showing that 4G long-term evolution (LTE) subscriptions reached 1.05 billion during Q4 of financial year 2015. According to Ovum’s report, three quarters of all LTE subscriptions come from just five countries: China, at 35 … Continue reading
OTT Subscriptions Exceeded 60% of U.S. Broadband Households in 2015, Reveals Parks Study 27 January 2016
Parks Associates, ahead of the upcoming webcast “Top 10 Trends – The Outlook for the Connected Home 2016,”reports that over 60% of U.S. broadband households have at least one OTT video service subscription. The research firm will host this webcast, … Continue reading
VOD Is A Hit With Kids In UK, Reveals Survey 27 January 2016
The amount of time UK children spend online has overtaken that spent watching television for the first time, according to a new report. An annual survey by research agency Childwise suggested young people now use the internet for three hours … Continue reading
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