Legislation introduced yesterday by Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) aims to give video service providers greater flexibility when purchasing programming from content providers by encouraging the unbundling of programming packages. If passed that would be good news for cable and satellite TV providers, who have complained...Learn More

More and more Americans are turning to TV set alternatives to watch video, according to a new report from Leichtman Research Group (LRG). Twenty-seven percent of U.S. adults watch video daily on devices other than TV sets and 53% do so on a weekly basis....Learn More

OTT video provider Hulu set a new record for revenue in 1Q 2013, as viewers streamed more than 1 billion videos in a single quarter, according to a blog post from acting CEO Andy Forssell. Forssell and Hulu management offered insights into Hulu’s recent performance...Learn More

If an ISP’s highest-margin product is projected to have demand growth of an order of magnitude growth, or more, while other products with lower profit margins are declining, should we not expect more bandwidth to allocated to the fast-growing, highest-margin service? Internet bandwidth, despite all...Learn More

WASHINGTON & HACKENSACK, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vidyo, Inc. and Internet2, a member-owned advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions, today announced a low-cost, subscription-based video communications offering for all Internet2 university members and thousands of public K-12 schools in the United States. K-12...Learn More

Over-the-Top (OTT) video revenue exceeded $8 billion in 2012, with that for the three largest markets – North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific – all growing at rates of more than 50%, according to a new report from ABI Research. ABI expects OTT revenue to exceed...Learn More

A fundamental transformation of video viewing and media usage is taking place in countries around the world. The latest evidence comes from multinational management consultancy Accenture. Traditional linear TV broadcasting is losing its hold on viewers around the world, as growing numbers of people are...Learn More

The capacity for disintermediation – cutting out the ‘middleman’ to put it bluntly – is an inherent facet of new, disruptive digital information and communications technologies that innovative start-ups, and entrepreneurs have exploited to tremendous commercial advantage. Now some of the biggest names in production...Learn More

Mobile telecom customers are watching a lot more in the way of online video, and in some unexpected ways and unexpected places, but they are also frustrated with service delivery, according to new research presented in Motorola Mobility’s Fourth Annual Media Engagement Barometer. Customer frustration...Learn More

Americans are keen to expand the range of mobile telecommunications options available to them. Fast-growing awareness of the capabilities afforded by digital network convergence and cross-platform devices and delivery services are fueling Americans’ desire to make use of voice-to-text, text-to-voice, voice control and video chat...Learn More

The ongoing tension between video service providers (including cable MSOs, IPTV service providers, and DBS providers) and the media companies that own and/or distribute video content is well documented. Content and the costs and business rules that govern it are out of control, at least...Learn More

With some 33 million streaming Internet video subscribers across 40 countries, Netflix has a vested interest, and unique insight, into broadband network performance in the U.S. and countries around the world. The market leading over-the-top (OTT) streaming video service provider on March 11 launched a...Learn More