Comcast Wants to Expand its Content Kingdom 31 July 2015
Apparently Comcast doesn’t think its media empire is big enough. According to The Wall Street Journal, the company is in talks with Buzzfeed, Vice Media and Business Insider as it mulls investing in the media companies or making a purchase to … Continue reading
Deepening The Dynamically Ad-Served Pool 31 July 2015
TV ad delivery will become more addressable as more viewers stream video from set-top boxes and consume IP-based content. Although the addressable TV ad market is still only worth $300 million compared to linear TV’s $70 billion, cable operators … Continue reading
Subscriptions to Outpace Ad Sales for OTT Revenues in APAC 30 July 2015
Currently, advertising is the biggest component of the over-the-top (OTT) TV and video revenue pie in Asia-Pacific. According to estimates from Digital TV Research Ltd., advertisers in the region spent $1.61 billion on the channel last year, compared with … Continue reading
PGA Tour Live Is The Latest OTT Entrant, Starting Tomorrow 30 July 2015
PGA Tour Live, a brand new over the top pro golf subscription service, starts tomorrow with early opening rounds of the Quicken Loans National. That’s interesting to some golfers, because golf viewers never get to see the opening morning rounds … Continue reading
Why Live TV Will Be Completely Irrelevant In The Future 30 July 2015
With Netflix and Hulu, as well as new standalone internet streaming services from HBO, Showtime, Nickelodeon, and CBS, there are more ways than ever to watch “TV” without actually subscribing to bundle of channels from a cable, satellite, or … Continue reading
Sky Full-Year Sales Jump on Web TV, New Customers in Germany 30 July 2015
Sky Plc, Rupert Murdoch’s European pay-TV company, reported sales that topped analysts’ estimates, boosted by subscriptions to its OTT VOD platform Now TV service in the U.K. and new customers in Germany. Sales rose 4.7 percent to 11.3 billion pounds … Continue reading
Telstra Integrates Roku and Netflix For New TV Box 30 July 2015
More than 860,000 Australians who invested in Telstra’s T Box service are set to find out that their entertainment box is set to get killed off in September to be replaced by a new Roku mini streaming box. The … Continue reading
Why Streaming Movies Are Becoming the New Direct-To-Video 30 July 2015
The Martin Sheen-voiced, animated feature “All Creatures Big and Small” debuted this month, but not where you might expect. The movie, a we-missed-Noah’s Ark tale with some recognizable talent in Sheen and Amy Grant, was scheduled for a limited-release … Continue reading
OTT Has An Insatiable Appetite For Volume, Says BBC EVP Asia 29 July 2015
BBC Worldwide’s EVP for Asia David Weiland had a few things to say about the OTT surge and BBC strategy. “We have managed to have a lot of successes. Our business here is structured fairly equally between our own branded … Continue reading
How Dance And VOD Are Coming Together 29 July 2015
No one ever said dance was easy. But now choreographers are tapping the streaming market in an effort to make the physical, mental and emotional intensity of the art a little more accessible to dancers worldwide. CLI Studios (which stands for “create, learn, inspire”) … Continue reading
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