Interpublic Group’s Magna forecasts the U.S. market for online video will grow by 32 percent this year, rising from $531 million in 2008 to $699 million in 2009. Brian Wieser, Magna’s SVP, global director of forecasting, says the researcher expects online video to generate slightly more than $1 billion in net advertising revenues for video content by 2011. That represents [...]
Celeno Communications, provider of semiconductors for multimedia Wi-Fi home networking applications, is working with Texas Instruments to enable next-generation cable modem gateways with wireless HD technology for Cable HD IPTV applications. Celeno’s high-performance CL1300 Wi-Fi chip is now interoperable with Texas Instruments’ Puma 5 family of DOCSIS 3.0 products. The joint technology enables MSOs to address next generation Cable IPTV [...]
Taiwanese telco Chunghwa Telecom had reported that it now has 686,000 subscribers to its IPTV service ‘Multimedia-on-Demand’ as of the end of the first quarter of this year – adding approximately 10,000 customers during the three month period and giving a 57.6 per cent year-on-year increase.
Korea Digital Media Industry Association has revealed that Korea’s consortium of IPTV firms had signed a $173 million contract with its Peruvian counterpart to establish an education system utilising IPTV technology in Peru. Korea will be paid in minerals, including copper, zinc and molybdenum. In the first phase of the project by 2010, the Korean consortium will construct IPTV networks [...]
The UK Internet Advertising Bureau has updated its best practice guidelines for online video advertising in a bid to standardise usage of ad formats in the emerging sector. The guidelines have been produced by the IAB Video Council, which includes representatives from YouTube, Guardian, Sky, Channel 4, Bauer, Telegraph, Microsoft, Yahoo and the BBC, with the aim of creating a [...]
Movistar and Vodafone are to broadcast race coverage of Formula 1 via mobile phones in the Spanish market. They will work with the rights-holder La Sexta and will provide practice and qualifying free, but will charge for the race coverage. Formula One has agreed similar deals in various other national markets but the services have yet to begin.
Central European Media Enterprises (CME) has announced less than impressive financial results for the three months ended March 31st, 2009. Net revenues for the first quarter of 2009 were $141.2 million, a decrease of 37 per cent, compared to the first quarter of 2008. Operating income for the quarter fell $130 million to a loss of $84.5 million and includes [...]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The Ministry of Industry has urged TV operators and electronic manufacturers to reach an agreement to market a single set-top-box able to receive pay DTT services to avoid the proliferation of different DTT devices. To this end, TV networks and manufacturers have set up a working group to find a suitable solution so that [...]
Time Warner Cable has posted a drop in first quarter profit due to rising programing costs and expenses related to the separation from its parent Time Warner Inc. The second largest US cable operator’s net profit fell to $164 million, from $242 million a year ago. Revenue rose 5 per cent to $4.4 billion. These are the first set of [...]
NDS has confirmed that DOXTV, a value-added TV service provider in China focusing on international movies and TV programmes, has chosen an end-to-end suite of NDS technologies to protect and enhance its business. DOXTV is using VideoGuard conditional access, MediaHighway middleware, as well as secure NDS XTV digital video recorder (DVR) technology with push video on demand capability, to offer [...]
