comScore has released data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that 27.4 million UK Internet users viewed 3.5 billion videos online in March 2008. Google Sites, driven by the popularity of YouTube.com, attracted a 48 per cent share of all online videos viewed in the UK. BBC Sites ranked second with a 1.2 per cent share. Fox Interactive Media, [...]
Worldwide spending on Internet advertising will total $65.2 billion in 2008, which represents nearly 10 per cent of all ad spending across all media. With IDC’s Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast projecting 15-20 per cent annual growth throughout the forecast period, this share will reach 13.6 per cent by 2011 as Internet ad spending grows to $106.6 billion worldwide. “Compared [...]
Communications market research firm Infonetics Research has reported that worldwide mobile videophone sales neared $99 billion in 2007 and are expected to grow strongly over the next 5 years, despite the challenge service providers face in making mobile video services profitable. The report shows that the number of mobile video subscribers topped 10 million worldwide in 2007, and is expected [...]
Arris and BlackArrow, a provider of multiplatform ad-management systems for viewer-controlled video, have announced the completion of interoperability testing between the companies’ respective VOD delivery and addressable advertising systems. Built on the SCTE 130 open standard, these combined dynamic, targeted VOD advertising services will help operators and content providers rapidly derive additional ad revenues from on-demand video services.
Ofcom CEO Ed Richards has warned there is “a real possibility” that ITV could give up public service broadcaster (PSB) status as increasing numbers of viewers switch to digital TV. ITV enjoys PSB status in return for broadcasting local news, children's programming and UK-made drama, giving it free access to spectrum, prominent positions on electronic programming guides and the chance [...]
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) of the Philippines has served its first ever temporary restraining order (TRO) against a pirate cable operator – Turtle Cable, a company in Baao, Camarines Sur province – for copyright infringement. This latest move by the IPO has been applauded by the international pay-TV industry. The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) welcomed [...]
The government is confusing consumers and putting taxpayers’ money at risk with its plan to switch off the analogue television signal by 2012, a parliamentary committee has found. The report by the public accounts committee into preparations for the digital switchover prompted opposition MPs to accuse the government of financial mismanagement and of failing to ensure the project was accountable [...]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome LuÃs Nazaré has been named as the chairman of Airplus TV Portugal, a company which is competing with Portugal Telecom for the licence to manage the Portuguese pay-TV DTT multiplexes. At a press conference in Lisbon, Nazaré announced that if the company is awarded the DTT licence it will offer only 18 TV channels in [...]
Mike Darcey, BSkyB COO, says Ofcom seems determined to live in the past and perpetuate a broadcasting model (FTA public service) that may not be suited to supporting new technologies. He said propping up outdating models meant a financial burden on the industry, sapping investment that would otherwise go into content. “It is not the job of a regulator to [...]
Sony will make a strong push into networked media and DTO services as it seeks to make the most of its hardware and software assets for growth. The company said it would aim to double revenues from the fast-growing markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China to 2 trillion yen (E11.7 billion) and invest 1.8 trillion yen in key businesses [...]
