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Hybrid TV & OTT
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Quarter of UK pay TV homes now take Netflix
In the UK, 25% of pay TV households now have a Netflix subscription as over-the-top…
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Liberty Interactive buys Zulily for US$2.4 billion
Liberty Interactive Corporation, the parent company of shopping channel QVC, has agreed to buy e-commerce…
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UK introduces age ratings for online music videos
The UK government and the major music labels have agreed to put “clear age ratings”…
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Starz comedy debuts on Facebook without geo-blocking
The second season of LeBron James-inspired basketball comedy Survivor’s Remorse has launched internationally on Facebook,…
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Comcast to launch Watchable video platform
US cable provider Comcast is reportedly gearing up to launch a major new digital video…
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Endemol Shine UK buys animation outfit
Endemol Shine UK has taken a controlling stake in the animation company behind digital comedy…
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HbbTV 1.5 version of OTT TV service Ruutu TV now on Digita
Nelonen Media-owned Finnish OTT TV service Ruutu TV is now available as an HbbTV-based add-on…
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BBC Three to go online only from March 2016
The BBC plans to turn youth network BBC Three into an online-only service from March…
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Ofcom survey reveals Netflix and Amazon numbers
Netflix has 4.4 million paying customers in the UK according to communications regulator Ofcom and…
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Twitter’s Periscope passes 10 million users
Twitter’s live video streaming app, Periscope, has now passed the 10 million account mark, with…
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At the Races launches new app with video
UK horse-race betting website and TV channel operator At the Races has launched a mobile…
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Vision247 moves to new facility in Chiswick
Hybrid broadcast channel aggregator and platform provider Vision247 is relocating its London offices to Chiswick…
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ITV buys into parent-focused MCN
UK broadcaster ITV has acquired a stake in Channel Mum, which is billed as the…
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BBC iPlayer Radio tops one million downloads in a month
The BBC has logged more than 1 million programme downloads for the BBC iPlayer Radio…
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RTL Deutschland taps 3-Screen Solutions for n-tv HbbTV app
RTL Deutschland-owned news channel n-tv has tapped 3 Screen Solutions to develop a new HbbTV-compliant…
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Rightster signs deal for Jack Jones TV
Multichannel network Rightster has struck a deal with celebrity talent agency Big Talent to provide…
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Viewster partners with YouTube producers on branded channels
Video streaming service Viewster has launched a new branded channel offering focused around “highly curated…
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Adult site eyes Netflix model with SVoD launch
Adult entertainment site PornHub has launched a subscription video-on-demand offering in an effort to beat…
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HBO Now ‘surpassing expectations’, international OTT launches due soon
Subscriber satisfaction for HBO’s US over-the-top service, HBO Now, have surpassed expectations with announcements about…
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Discovery in deal with Verizon, outlines MENA ambitions
Discovery Communications is to begin supplying content to an upcoming mobile TV-focused OTT service from…
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Netflix to roll out in Japan next month
Netflix is due to launch in Japan on September 2, marking its first steps into…
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NGSN gears up delivering OTT football to US
Online sports network NGSN has secured a raft of rights to bring international football to…
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OTT service Magine launches in the UK in test mode
Online TV operator Magine has launched in test mode in the UK and has secured…
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Telekom Austria to launch OTT service
A1, the domestic Austrian brand of Telekom Austria, is to launch an OTT TV service…
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Vice launches female-focused Broadly.tv
Vice has launched a female-focused online channel, called Broadly.tv, in the UK, US and Canada….
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Icflix revamps Android app
Middle East and North African streaming service Icflix has launched a revamped version of its…
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Netflix churn rate roughly 9%, says Parks Associates
Roughly 4% of US broadband homes have cancelled their Netflix subscription in the past 12…
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Digital TV Labs to develop HbbTV 2.0 test suite
Digital TV Labs has been selected by the HbbTV Association to test new technologies for…
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YipTV signs platform deal with aioTV
Hispanic streaming TV service, YipTV, has tapped OTT middleware platform provider aioTV to power the…
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RTL’s BroadbandTV teams up with BMG for music
Multichannel network BroadbandTV is to partner with Bertelsmann stablemate music publisher BMG on an initiative…