As viewers use more multicast video on demand services to navigate through their daily entertainment, TV studios are seizing the opportunity by using the Internet as a tracking system to monitor consumption. Moderated by Variety co-editor-in-chief Andrew Wallenstein, a panel of … Continue reading
With federal regulators having made clear that the No. 1 cable company (Comcast) wasn’t going to be allowed to buy the No. 2 (Time Warner Cable), things are getting really interesting for everybody but No. 1. “This is a very attractive market … Continue reading
Mobile data traffic will approach almost 197,000 PB (Petabytes) by 2019, equivalent to over 10 billion Blu-ray movies, according to new research from Juniper Research. However, the research found that only 41% of the data generated by these devices will be … Continue reading
The way we watch TV has changed. The internet has moved the availability of content beyond linear TV, and the growth of internet based multicast video on demand services like Netflix and LoveFilm, together with the influx of high-quality video … Continue reading
AFTER a great run of 50 years, TV as we know it will be dead by 2030, the chief executive of Netflix has prophesied. Indeed people are already turning off and saving themselves a wad in the process. Don’t watch live … Continue reading
Verizon Communications Inc. says it has agreed to buy Internet content pioneer AOL Inc. for approximately $4.4 billion. The deal will strengthen Verizon’s content play in LTE wireless video and over the top (OTT), as well as aide its Internet … Continue reading
The increasing use of tablets and smartphones is fueling a hike in the amount of time people spend online, new Ofcom research has suggested. People are spending twice as much time online compared to 10 years ago, the regulator’s Media Use … Continue reading
TV viewers in Europe are the least likely to go online while watching TV, a new survey has claimed. This is in spite of Europe having seven of the top 10 countries in a table of territories with the highest level … Continue reading
Apple TV hasn’t generated a whole lot of buzz lately, but it’s still a big part of Apple’s overall strategy. In fact, Apple plans to unveil a new version of its Apple TV for multicast video on demand services, including … Continue reading
Time Warner Cable will report its first quarter earnings on April 30th. We expect the company’s pay-TV subscriber base to continue to shrink in this quarter and beyond. In contrast, we expect steady growth in the high speed internet operations … Continue reading