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Proximus TV boosted by high-end offerings
Belgian telco Proximus added 17,000 TV customers in the second quarter to take its total…
YouTube now at 1.5bn viewers as TV viewing surges
YouTube now has 1.5 billion monthly viewers thanks in part to a surge in big-screen…
4K TV market ‘to be worth US$380.9bn by 2025’
The 4K TV market will be worth US$380.9 billion by 2025, according to a new…
Thinkbox study reveals value of sponsored TV content
Viewers of a sponsored TV show are “significantly more likely” to believe the sponsoring brand…
Dataxis: 22% of TVs sold in Europe last year were 4K
Sales of 4K TVs represented 22% of the overall European TV market in 2016, up…
A+E agrees data deal with Parrot Analytics
A+E Networks has partnered with Parrot Analytics to get data on country-specific audience interest in…
Ginx eSports channel launches on DStv
Ginx Esports TV is due to launch on the DStv satellite service in South Africa…
Ampere: Saudi web users consume the most TV and video
Saudi Arabian internet users watched more TV and video online than people in any other…
Toshiba launches new Ultra HD TVs
Toshiba has launched a range of new 4K, Ultra HD TVs under a brand licensing…
Zenith: gap between TV and web narrowing
The gap between TV and internet consumption will narrow to just seven minutes in 2019,…
Zain iflix SVOD JV launches in five MENA markets
Kuwait-based Middle East service provider Zain has launched OTT TV service iflix Arabia across five…
ESL planning ‘much more’ linear TV around eSports
Modern Times Group (MTG)-owned eSports outfit ESL plans to build on early experiments to reach out…
Vodafone will invest in exclusive content ‘if necessary’
Vodafone will invest in exclusive content “if we need to” despite having a preference for…
Now TV having ‘no impact’ on core pay TV base
Sky’s Now TV “strategy is working” without any impact on the pay TV operator core…
Vodafone sees TV and convergence growth despite problems
Despite being weighed down by the write-down of its Indian business and problems in the…
Swisscom banks on bundling as competition bites
Swisscom is banking on the popularity of bundled offerings, and in particular of its new…
Telenet reports 15% increase in SVOD as TV numbers fall
Liberty Global-owned Belgian cable operator Telenet reported a 15% year-on-year increase in users to its…
NAB: social media ‘crucial to future of network TV’
Extending flagship show brands to have a strong presence on social media is central to…
Accenture: TV viewing more popular on non-TV devices
More people now prefer to watch TV shows on internet connected devices than on traditional…
TV ad spend in the UK ‘boosted by VOD growth’
TV advertising spend in the UK reached a new high of £5.3 billion (€6.2 billion)…
OTT to ‘overtake traditional TV within five years’
Within the next five years, viewing hours of live linear content streamed over the web…
TV to account for ‘30% of high-end ads’ in key markets
The US, China and Japan will drive a recovery in luxury advertising, with TV taking…
Nielsen: US adults’ news consumption up 18% in 2016
US adults spent 72.5 billion minutes consuming news in the average week in 2016, an…
Former Google, Instagram staffers launch Dreams mobile TV app
Former Google and Instagram staff members, Tom Bender and Greg Hochmuth, have launched a new “mobile-only…
Channel 4 chief Abraham quitting to launch new media business
Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham is leaving the UK broadcaster later this year to…
Sky-backed OnPrime TV now available in Germany, Italy and UK on Apple TV
OnPrime TV, the Sky and Cisco-backed OTT TV service targeting migrant groups in the pay…
Thinkbox: TV accounts for 75% of UK video viewing
TV accounted for 74.8% of UK video viewing last year, down slightly from 76% in…
Deutsche Telekom mulling standalone mobile OTT TV service
Deutsche Telekom is considering launching a standalone OTT TV product in Germany, according to Tim…
Proximus grows TV base by 5% in 2016
Proximus grew its TV base by 5.3% last year, after adding 17,000 unique TV customers…
Mixed TV picture for Telefónica
Telefónica’s overall TV base was stable year-on-year, at 8.3 million including 4.3 million satellite customers,…