Hybrid TV & OTT

Broadcasters 2 min read

Discovery has acquired a stake in VS Media, a Chinese multichannel network business. The MCN…

Channels 1 min read

Brazilian broadcaster and Rio Olympics rights holder, Globo, has agreed to provide content to Snapchat…

News 2 min read

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stressed the company’s commitment to video as the company announced bumper…

Broadcasters 1 min read

The BBC is trialling subtitles for live channels on BBC iPlayer, in what the UK…

News 1 min read

US-based streaming cable TV network, Wurl Network, has gone live, offering broadband-delivered channels to cable…

Pay TV Operators 2 min read

Amazon Video is planning to launch its streaming partners programme in Europe for the first time,…

SVOD 2 min read

Niche SVOD services may eventually end as standalone apps and instead be distributed as part…

Pay TV Operators 1 min read

Polish cable operator Multimedia Polska has begun testing a TV everywhere service, Multimedia Go. According…

Pay TV Operators 1 min read

Almost half of US consumers with an SVoD and pay TV subscription watch their streaming…

Pay TV Operators 1 min read

This week’s ‘Prime Day’ was Amazon’s biggest day ever for global sales of its own branded devices,…

Broadcasters 1 min read

Netflix has ordered a 20-part straight-to-series comedy from comedy guru Chuck Lorre and Warner Bros….

News 1 min read

YouTube MCN BuzzMyVideos says it is moving into socially distributed video by enabling its content…

News 1 min read

Ukrainian OTT service Divan.TV is now available on Sharp, Haier and Hisense smart TVs in…

Pay TV Operators 1 min read

Close to two third of UK viewers of the Olympics on TV will use an…

Broadcasters 1 min read

Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1-owned subscription video-on-demand service Maxdome has commissioned its first original series. The broadcaster-owned service…

Pay TV Operators 1 min read

Twitch, the Amazon-owned video platform for games enthusiasts, has launched a new category of video…

Pay TV Operators 2 min read

Sky’s standalone digital service Now TV has launched what it claims is the UK’s first…

News 1 min read

YouTube has ordered a series adaptation of the Step Up movie for its Red service,…

News 2 min read

Some 80% of millennials subscribe to at least one over-the-top (OTT) service and 39% report…

Broadcasters 1 min read

Viacom is launching BET as a direct-to-consumer streaming service in 100 countries. BET Play is…

SVOD 1 min read

Netflix represents 35.2% of peak period downstream traffic on North American fixed internet networks, according…

SVOD 1 min read

Netflix’s latest original programme is an unscripted series featuring social media star Cameron Dallas. The…

Vendors 1 min read

Sony’s over-the-top TV service, PlayStation Vue, has launched on Roku devices in the US, with…

News 1 min read

NASA has launched an app for the fourth generation of Apple TV, letting users live-stream…

News 1 min read

Peer-to-peer video sharing platform BitTorrent is looking to launch a “tent-pole live news channel” to…

News 1 min read

Yahoo-owned blogging platform Tumblr is gearing up to launch a new live video service today,…

Broadcasters 2 min read

Trace has acquired African subscription video-on-demand service Buni.tv as it gears up to launch its…

Broadcasters 1 min read

US streaming service Hulu has inked a content deal with Disney that gives it over…

News 1 min read

Tablo, a Canada-based next-generation DVR service, has launched as an app for the latest-generation of…

Broadcasters 2 min read

The Euro 2016 football tournament will generate double the amount of peak online streaming traffic…