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AT&T announces XandrOctober 18, 2018AT&T has unveiled its advertising and analytics business Xandr. Named after AT&T founder Alexander Graham Bell, Xandr will house all of the telco giant’s data-led offerings, including addressable advertising service AT&T AdWorks, analytics business ATT.net and ad-tech unit AppNexus.
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Young males more likely to look for UHD content when choosing a video serviceOctober 11, 2018More than a third of video subscribers claim ultra-high-definition (UHD) content is an important criterion in their choice of video services, across five markets surveyed. Among households with both pay TV and online video subscriptions, that preference rises to 50 percent.
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CGR commits to all RGB projectionOctober 10, 2018Leading French exhibitor, CGR Cinemas, has stated its intention to use all RGB laser projectors to power its approximately 700 screens across 73 locations with Christie as its exclusive laser projector provider
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New territories available in Cinema IntelligenceOctober 10, 2018IHS Markit has added three new territories in Peru, Vietnam and Kazakhstan to its global coverage for Cinema Intelligence data, analysis and insights.
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All aboard the cloud gaming train: Microsoft reveals details of its Project xCloud initiativeOctober 08, 2018Microsoft has revealed details of its cloud gaming initiative – codenamed Project xCloud – which will start testing in 2019 and be based on Microsoft-designed Xbox One hardware blades sitting in server racks in select Microsoft Azure locations around the world.
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Games console owners globally more likely to subscribe to OTT video and pay TV servicesOctober 03, 2018The latest finding from the IHS Markit “Connected Devices and Media Consumption” service revealed that 35.6 percent of households owned a games console. The survey examined device ownership, use and access of subscription and free video services and decision drivers.
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Cloud Gaming: Google Reveals Project Stream TestOctober 02, 2018Google has revealed its cloud gaming initiative Project Stream which runs high-end PC games from GPU instances in the cloud through its Chrome browser. It has launched a field test of the technology to a limited number of participants based in the US using Ubisoft's latest installment in the Assassin's Creed franchise - Assassin's Creed: Odyssey - as the test game.
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21st Century Fox to sell Sky shares to ComcastSeptember 27, 201821st Century Fox is to sell its 39% stake in European pay TV company Sky to Comcast. The stake is valued at £11.6 billion ($15 billion). The decision, announced on 26 September, follows a few days after Comcast outbid Fox for control of Sky in an auction held by the UK Takeover Panel. Comcast has already acquired a 30% in Sky from other shareholders.Subscribers Only
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Comcast wins Sky battle with £30.6 billion offerSeptember 24, 2018Comcast has outbid 21st Century Fox to win control of Sky, with an offer valuing the UK-based pay TV group at £30.6 billion ($40 billion). In the third and final round of the auction run by the UK's takeover panel on Saturday 22 September, Comcast made a final offer of £17.28 per Sky share, trumping a bid of £15.67 from Fox. Comcast launched its challenge for Sky in April with an initial offer of £12.50, valuing Sky at £22 million. Sky shares closed at £15.85 last Friday.Subscribers Only
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Vodafone launches virtual pay TV service in GreeceSeptember 24, 2018Vodafone has launched a new standalone online subscription video service in Greece, called Vodafone TV. The service is available to everyone with a broadband connection, including customers who do not subscribe to mobile or fixed broadband services provided by Vodafone. The service will offer a total of 62 linear channels, 4,000 library movies and 7,000 episodes of TV series, with the most recent blockbuster movies being subject to a rental fee. Vodafone TV is available to all devices that support iOS and Android, and provides the subscriber with the ability to simultaneously use up to three connected or mobile devices per account. The service also offers a Cloud DVR option, allowing consumers to save and store content in the cloud.
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Content Discovery is Key to Achieving Customer SatisfactionSeptember 19, 2018According to the “Connected Devices and Media Consumption” survey from IHS Markit, TV content discovery is at the heart of the battle among TV and video providers to convince consumers that their user experience is both easy to use and truly personalized. Even with smart digital assistants now integrated into TVs, successful personalization will come down to the ability to really know their customers and help them find what they want to watch.Subscribers Only
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Last minute deal secures Canalsat carriage for SFR channelsSeptember 19, 2018The RMC Sport premium channels were added to the CanalSat satellite service in France on 18 September after SFR and Canal Plus group reached agreement. The four RMC Sport channels and RMC News will be available for an additional €9 a month for existing subscribers and €19 a month for new subscribers. The agreement was reached on the day the first group phase matches of the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League season - to which SFR owns the rights - kicked off.Subscribers Only
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Mattel launches film division in bid for new growthSeptember 18, 2018Mattel Toys has launched a film arm to develop and produce films based on its toy-related brands. Drawing on the success of not only Marvel and DC Comics, but also rival toymakers Hasbro and Lego.Subscribers Only
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UK government publishes 'no deal Brexit' advice for broadcastersSeptember 14, 2018The UK Government has published guidance for the broadcasting and video-on-demand sector in the event that the country leaves the European Union (EU) on 29 March 2019 without an agreement on its future relationship with the other 27 countries. Similar guidance notes have been published for other sectors which will be impacted in a 'no deal' scenario. The government note states this is 'unlikely' to happen.
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Another Day, Another Divestment: Nokia Offloads Video AssetsSeptember 13, 2018Nokia has sold the brunt its digital video business – comprising the firm’s CDN, Cloud DVR, and experience personalization solutions – to Canadian private equity firm Volaris Group. Volaris is likely to reconstitute the video assets under the Velocix brand. Nokia, for its part, will retain its system integration business, but will continue to market and sell Velocix’s solutions – becoming, in effect, a Velocix channel partner. The value of the transaction is not known.Subscribers Only
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Virtual pay TV drives video success for Cellcom and Partner in Israel, as traditional platforms declineSeptember 12, 2018Israel’s subscription OTT video sector has experienced substantial growth since 2015, while over the same period, traditional pay TV platforms have sustained notable subscriber losses. However, online video’s growth has not been achieved solely at the expense of pay TV. Although cord-cutting has been observed, the new market entrants have successfully appealed to users in demographics previously underserved – primarily younger viewers – with virtual pay TV offerings. This trend has resulted in the expansion of the total base of users paying for video services.Subscribers Only
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Mainland China: Tencent closes popular poker game to comply with regulationsSeptember 11, 2018Tencent announced it will shut down its Everyday Texas Hold’em poker game on September 25 and start to issue refunds to players or convert the in-game currency to other Tencent games. The company’s spokesperson suggested that the move was aimed at diverting more resources to other games in its pipeline rather than a response to the intensifying government policy on online games industry.
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The pay TV conundrum: cord shavers, cord cutters and cord neversSeptember 11, 2018According to the latest IHS Markit “Connected Devices & Media Consumption” survey, one-third of pay TV households downsized their pay TV packages across the United States.
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Turkish OTT subscriptions go bundled amid economic turmoilSeptember 10, 2018Despite Turkey’s recent economic decline, it still boasts an over-the-top (OTT) subscription video subscriber base of 3.9 million subscribers (excluding multiscreen services) – the largest in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Online sports: evolution, not revolutionSeptember 06, 2018Sports have been key to the development of the pay TV industry over the last two decades and more. The sheer size of the revenues rights holders generate from pay TV is one factor slowing down the online migration of sports content.
