Results from a survey of 2,000 European consumers by market analyst firm Canalys indicate that half have no interest in watching any kind of TV on a mobile phone, even if the service was free. The findings highlight three potentially attractive mobile TV customer segments: The pay-TV subscriber: consumers that take pay-TV services (54 per cent of those surveyed) are [...]
Peter Bazalgette is stepping down at Endemol as Chief Creative Officer. Marco Bassetti will become COO. Bazalgette will continue as an advisor to the Endemol board.
Internet search giant Google is planning a dramatic expansion of its operations in Europe, aiming to recruit several thousand engineers over the next three years to create a research and development team as large as its US unit. The move is partly a bid by the search giant to redefine its image on the continent, where many Internet users regard [...]
Tilgin, provider of customer premises equipment (CPE) for advanced triple play and IMS-based services, has agreed with Ericsson to provide pre-integrated IPTV set-top boxes. The agreement will see Tilgin IPTV set-top boxes being pre-integrated into Ericsson’s IPTV end-to-end solutions. Tilgin will supply IPTV set-top box solutions from the Mood 300 and Mood 400 series that include complete support for the [...]
Chellomedia, the European content division of Liberty Global, and HIT Entertainment, independent children's entertainment producer and rights owner, have confirmed a joint venture to launch an international pre-school TV channel. At the same time, Chellomedia has separately acquired JimJam, the leading pre-school channel, which is currently available in Italy on the Sky Italia platform. Together, HIT and Chellomedia's subsidiary, Zonemedia [...]
FOX news and Maven Networks, an Internet-TV-platform company, are teaming up on a new broadband-video-distribution system for the news network. Fox News will roll out Maven's technology company wide: All video content on Fox News Web sites, including FOXnews.com and the Web site for the upcoming FOX business network, will run on Maven's platform.
An Internet Video Report for IPTV Service Providers from MRG has investigated how IPTV can leverage both professionally-developed and user-generated video content to reduce churn and generate revenue. “We've found that using Internet Video is a tremendous opportunity if it's tailored around the IPTV operator's local market,” states Len Feldman, Director of IPTV Analysis for MRG. “Internet Video, if brought [...]
Greg Maffei, CEO and president of Liberty Media, said his company’s deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to gain control of DirecTV will give real market leverage to the Liberty’s media distribution holdings – but it’s unlikely the Government would let Liberty merge DirecTV with EchoStar. Analysts have speculated that such a merger could succeed now, given the broader media [...]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The booming IPTV market is boosting the growth of the pay-TV in Spain. Over the last year, pay-TV captured 275,000 new clients up to a total of 3.5 million pay-TV subscribers in the country, with a penetration rate of 22.3 per cent, according to the latest report produced by Red.es. The increasing popularity of [...]
The number of paying users of online video sites has grown significantly between 2006 and 2007, new research from Parks Associates indicates. “Broadband Video: A Market Update” finds that the number of broadband households paying for online video content now stands at nearly 12 million, up from a little more than three million in 2005-2006. “We have seen widespread use [...]
