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Ultra HD Forum, the non-profit UHD advocate, has shared what it calls encouraging findings from its all-new UHD Service Tracker. The organisation is now...

TSTT-AMPLIA, which runs a FTTH network and television services in Trinidad and Tobago, is launching an Android TV solution from Zappware in a multi-tenant...

ITV, Channel 4, Roku and Pubmatic executives will explore, live, the challenges that Covid-19 has presented to the premium video advertising market and explore how TV providers/publishers can monetise growing audiences across connected TV and OTT despite advertising budgets being reduced. Discussion points include how video publishers can mitigate against a contracting market.

The results of the Videonet Connected TV Awards 2020 will be announced on Thursday, April 16, during a streamed ‘ceremony’ starting at 1600 BST/1700...

Two consumer insight/research specialists are publishing weekly updates on the impact of coronavirus on UK consumers. The latest shows that people expect an average wait of five months before visiting a restaurant, going to the cinema or spending the day at a visitor attraction. The data also shows that some people are actually watching less TV – though they are a minority.

Even ultra-fast broadband will become commoditised, so communications service providers (CSPs) need to think about how they differentiate themselves and where they make money...

Mediatel Events has announced a series of digital content fortnights focused on the future of advertising and the future of streaming, each one populated with live webcasts and one-day streamed thought-leadership (virtual) conferences, as a response to the coronavirus lockdowns and social distancing. Videonet will be one of the key media partners supporting the initiative and will publish a series of interviews, opinion pieces and reports around the different topics.

Ampere Analysis has modelled the potential impact of COVID-19 on Pay TV operators and it points to accelerated cord-cutting in the long-term in favour of lower cost subscription OTT products, regardless of any short-term boost to television consumption. The problem, of course, is the likelihood of reduced GDP growth. In recessions, Pay TV is usually affected 12-24 months after the initial economic shock.

ANGA COM Exhibition & Conference, which was scheduled for mid-May, has been postponed to next year due to coronavirus and related directions from relevant...

A1 Telekom Austria Group has created a unified video backoffice and UX for different countries, covering IPTV and DVB-C networks and different devices including set-top boxes, mobile and Chromecast. The service includes onboarded OTT content. Zappware provides the technology that underpins the multi-market solution.