Providing content across multiple platforms and devices – otherwise known as “TV Everywhere,” is a value-adding proposition for pay-TV providers, and now there’s data to back up that proposition. “Consumers who view content on multiple platforms and devices attach more value to service from their...
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TV and video viewing on tablets will soar to 58 billion hours in 2017, accounting for 10% of all current TV, video and OTT consumption, according to a new report from The Diffusion Group (TDG). The dramatic increase will result in significant changes in the...
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January 31, 2013 — EL SEGUNDO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DIRECTV continues to make great strides toward evolving its DIRECTV Everywhere service, with a new digital video ad insertion solution developed in partnership with FreeWheel, the industry’s leading video advertising technology provider. Through the new partnership, DIRECTV is...
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The TV remains the preferred media for TV shows and video for nearly 60% of U.S. consumers, “but they also want their smart phones and tablets by their side so they can be online and multitask, according to the KPMG International 2013 Digital Debate report,...
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Awareness and use of TV Everywhere (TVE) cross-device and cross-platform Internet capabilities is higher for free TV Everywhere capabilities from television networks than it is for similar capabilities built into most pay-TV subscription packages, according to a survey of pay TV households from research firm...
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As it does each year, the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show opened with a bang. Dozens of high profile press conferences take place the day before the trade show opens. Cisco held an event on Monday evening, which included brief speeches by Cisco CEO John...
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Broadband penetration will surpass 650 million households worldwide this year and nearly 430 million of those households are equipped with a home data network, according to new white paper from Parks Associates titled “Trends, Technologies, and Ecosystems: Evolution of the Digital Home.” Parks’ analysts see...
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A slew of announcements about advanced video offerings have emerged from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Among the most interesting were an announcement from Cisco about a cloud-based version of its Videoscape Unity video service delivery platform, a pair of announcements...
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Comcast and Verizon Wireless are touting a new app, dubbed Xfinity TV Player, that lets Comcast Xfinity subscribers download movies and TV shows to their smartphone or tablet for future viewing using Verizon’s 4G LTE network. According to a Verizon Wireless blog post Xfinity TV...
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NBC Universal announced a new deal with Verizon to bring their content portfolio to Verizon FiOS TV customers across multiple platforms, including live and on demand TV. The pact is scheduled to begin early next year and illustrates the evolving nature of the subscription video...
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Web video viewing continued to grow worldwide in this year’s third quarter, as viewers increasingly use smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, PCs and connected TVs to tune-in to television and other video content, according to Ooyala’s “Q3 2012 Global Video Index” report. Although tablets and smartphones...
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DALLAS and NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — AT&T* and Viacom today announced that AT&T U-verse® TV customers can now access an expanded lineup of full-length episodes from BET, COMEDY CENTRAL, MTV, Nickelodeon, Spike and VH1 on demand, on the Web. AT&T U-verse TV...
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