December 29, 2016

Featured News

Top Shopping Sites Have 2.7M Listings for Video Piracy Devices

E-commerce sites including Amazon, eBay, and Alibaba have millions of listings for products that let consumers subscribe to pirate online video platforms.

Mid- to Long-Form Content Views Grow Across All Screens: Ooyala

In the latest version of its Global Video Index, Ooyala warns about the growing piracy threat for sports publishers offering 4K live video.

YouView Takes Service to the Cloud

YouView claims to be the first large-scale UK broadcaster to embrace the cloud; changes include a redesigned UI and a move from Flash to HTML5

Featured Articles

Live OTT Warrants Advertising Premium, Says Massive CTO

Massive CTO Max Ramsay discusses Facebook Live, 4K, 360° video and more in this look at the trends in OTT and live video as 2016 comes to a close

Streaming Forum Preview: OTT An "Unstoppable" Force

Dan Finch of TVPlayer and Simplestream will present one of the Streaming Forum keynotes, and here he offers his take on the state of OTT as we head into 2017

SVOD Is the Clear OTT Winner

Amazon Prime Instant Video's expansion and the introduction of BritBox drive home the point: SVOD will be the leading OTT business model for the foreseeable future.

Industry News

Big Sofa Technologies Group Admission to AIM and First Day of Dealings

Edgeware streaming TV technology provider goes public

TV CDN provider lists on the NASDAQ Stockholm exchange, joining other successful Stockholm-based IT companies

V-Nova Joins SMPTE® to Encourage Deployment of Next-Generation Video Encoding

V-Nova will participate with the SMPTE UK Section membership to assist the industry in devising practical and valuable steps to utilise standards effectively, regardless of the infrastructure in place.