Number of available Android applications - AppBrain. YouView launch “way overdue but also too early” TV-on-demand service YouView has finally announced its launch in the UK A set-top box intended to transform how viewers consume TV has been launched in the UK, two years later than planned. YouView offers subscription-free digital TV and catch-up and will be available in major retailers by the end of July. The service offers more than 100 digital TV and radio channels, seven day catch-up and on demand programmes from the content libraries of the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, delivered to the viewer’s TV. YouView’s electronic programme guide allows users to scroll back seven days to catch-up on programmes they’ve missed. They can watch in HD and record, pause and rewind live TV. The venture’s chairman, Lord Sugar, described “a great moment in British television” and CEO Richard Halton added “YouView is easy to use and seamlessly combines the worlds of catch up and live TV, on the living room TV.”
How Mobile is Transforming TV. The day is coming when more TV viewing will be done over a mobile device (tablet or smartphone) than via cable or satellite. The implications of the change from one pipeline to another will have tremendous ramifications throughout the $70 billion TV advertising industry that will positively impact consumers, marketers and networks. Various industry forecasts show that TV consumption habits will soon be changing. ComScore reported that in April, 181 million U.S. Internet users watched nearly 37 billion online videos. Cisco projects that IP traffic used worldwide will grow fourfold by 2016, driven by a proliferation of connected devices, ever-increasing broadband connectivity and greater adoption of IP video worldwide. Furthermore, estimates suggest that Apple will sell as many as 60 million iPads in 2012. All of these facts point to consumers who are changing the face of how video is consumed from a TV in their living room to their mobile device.
Amazon Instant Video Comes to Xbox 360. Amazon is making its Instant Video library available to Microsoft Xbox 360 devices, widening the pool of on-demand, streaming video content for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. Console owners can now browse, rent, purchase and immediately stream some 120,000 movies and TV episodes through Amazon's Instant Video app in the Xbox Live Marketplace. The addition of the Xbox 360 widens Amazon's connected device reach. Instant Video is available on the PlayStation 3, Roku and an assortment of Blu-ray players and HDTV sets. Those who also subscribe to Amazon Prime, a $79-per-year service that offers free two-day shipping on Amazon items among other benefits, will also be able to stream around 17,000 films and TV episodes at no additional charge. That figure will likely grow if the company continues to aggressively sign on more studio partners, a roster that already includes Discovery, Fox, CBS, NBC, Sony, Viacom and Warner Bros.
Do you use Amazon Prime Instant Video? 50 VOD Professionals. Who do you think are the most influential people working in the UK New Television industry today? We want your thoughts! Who are the 50 most influential people working in video-on-demand, IPTV, connected TV and web TV in the UK today? This could be just another "let's make a list" exercise but I suspect it's more important than that. Maybe you want to pitch your product or your service to the key person in the room? Perhaps you want to bypass HR and go straight to the big boss with your CV? In this nascent sector it's vital to know who the movers and shakers precisely because the new television world is so, well, new. We'll be collecting suggestions over the next three weeks at the end of which they'll be discussed by a panel of industry leaders. Here are some starters:
Voici combien coûtent 30 sec de pub ce soir sur TF1, M6, C+, TMC et NT1. National Broadband Network multicast offering. The National Broadband Network in Australia will enable service providers to deliver high-quality, high-definition video channels at a fixed cost per user. The fibre network will support multicast, a core technology for the efficient distribution of television channels to large numbers of users over internet protocols. NBN Co, the government owned company that will provide the wholesale open access network across Australia, has now published details of how it plans to charge for multicast services. What is currently missing is a plan to carry a core set of channels in the network as standard. “Multicast will be available as an add-on feature to our fibre offering giving service providers the opportunity to introduce very attractive and competitive triple-play voice, broadband and video content to any of their fibre-based customers,” said Jim Hassell, the head of product development and sales at NBN Co.
Www.nbnco.com.au. Satellite overtakes cable in Germany. February 8, 2012 More German households are watching TV via satellite rather than cable for the first time, according to SES’s latest TV Monitor report. At the end of 2011, 17.5 million homes took DTH services, compared to 17.3 million taking cable services. The number of satellite customers increased by 900,000 during the course of the year, while cable numbers were down by 900,000.
DTT customer numbers were also down by 180,000 to a total of 1.8 million, while IPTV customers increased by 330,000 to 1.3 million. Of the total satellite customer base, only 1.8 million were still watching analogue services. Germany will cease broadcasting analogue satellite signals at the end of April. “The new TV Monitor reveals a historical quantum leap for Astra and Direct-to-Home satellite reception in Germany,” said Ferdinand Kayser, chief commercial officer at SES. 12 Things That Won’t Happen In Online Video in 2012. Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan. There are no shortages of “predictions” articles, here I look at a dozen things that won’t happen in the world of online video in 2012, even though they should. 1) We Will Have Standards and Definitions (No, we won’t) By the end of 2011, the online video industry didn’t yet have a common definition and standard for a video view. 2) Year of Mobile (Where have I heard that before?)
Every year is intended to be the “year of mobile”, and every year ends with a prediction that “next year, mobile will take off”. Here’s the thing, mobile has been growing rapidly for years, but it’s been all about text and apps. 3) Death of Television (Really?) If there’s one thing we keep expecting each year more than the “rise of mobile” it’s the “death of television”, and frankly, neither one ever happens – even though in all honesty, the trend line does favor both of those things. 6) Where’s the ROI? YouTube launching 100 new channels. NEW YORK – YouTube is making a bold step into original programming in an entertainment venture with some 100 content creators, from Madonna to The Wall Street Journal. The Google-owned video site said Friday that it's launching more than 100 new video channels. The partners include an array of Hollywood production companies, celebrities and new media groups that will produce mainly niche-oriented videos.
YouTube is shelling out $100 million to producers, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The money is an advance on advertising money the videos will bring in, and Google will recoup its portion first before splitting the proceeds. Advances are as high as $5 million per channel, said another person familiar with the arrangement, also speaking on condition of anonymity. Neither person was authorized to comment publicly on the matter. Google declined to offer financial details of the deals, but said the majority of revenue will go to partners.
News. Connected TV: Forecasts and Winners/Losers (UK Case Study) Below is an extract from this 23 page Telco 2.0 Report that can be downloaded in full in PDF format by members of the Telco 2.0 Executive Briefing service here. Non-members can buy a Single User license for this report online here for £595 (+VAT) or subscribe here. For multiple user licenses, or to book a place at our Digital Entertainment 2.0 workshop on New Business Models for the Home Video Entertainment market in Europe - Lessons from America at our London Executive Brainstorm on 8th November, please email contact@telco2.net or call +44 (0) 207 247 5003. To share this article easily, please click: With every wave of innovation, there are always winners and losers. In this note we examine who are likely to be the winners and losers in the UK as increasingly, TVs become connected to the internet.
The UK TV Market According to OFCOM’s latest research, there are 26.6m TV households in the UK with 60m TV sets or an average of 2.25 TV sets per household. TV Viewing Source: BARB. Set Top Boxes. TV In The Cloud. TV is moving to the cloud. It is inevitable, just as other kinds of media from books to music are increasingly delivered over the Internet. Netflix, Hulu, and even Apple TV are making inroads when it comes to distributing traditional TV shows and movies to Internet-connected screens. YouTube keeps grabbing more of our attention, accounting for 7 percent of total time spent on the Internet in the U.S., according to comScore. And yet the TV (and movie) industry are proving more resistant to change than any other form of media.
Change will come, but it won’t happen as quickly as it is with music, news, or books. The TV industry is digging in. But does anyone really doubt that eventually the Internet will triumph here to smash the rigid program guide that cable and satellite companies shove down our throats? Unlike the Smartphone which could only have emerged to leverage the Internet, TV has no “smart content” to leverage.
Bott concludes: Photo credit: Flickr/zizzybaloobah. The future of pay-television: Breaking the box. YouTube to launch thematic channels in France. July 10, 2012 YouTube plans to launch 13 new online video channels in France in October, according to French press reports. According to Le Figaro, the Google-owned video site is in the process of finalising deals with a number of different producers, including Endemol and France’s Kabo and new players Capa and Troisième OEil. It is also in the process of signing up web sites with content assets including Au feminin.com and is has approached actor and comedian Jean Dujardin about developing a comedy project, according to the paper The new channels will be based on thematic lines including health, culture and family.
Production partners will receive funding averaging between €500,000 to €1 million for projects comprising 20 hours over a year, according to Le Figaro. If advertising receipts exceed the production budget, these will be shared between YouTube and the producer. Internet companies: Beware the Hulu hoodoo. BT Wholesale Runs Technical Trials of Live Broadband ISP Television Service.