Netflix’s share price is down after it missed self-imposed net adds forecasts, but an extraordinary amount of marketing spend hints this quarter might just be a bump in the road.
M&A deals involving telecoms and media companies in 2018 has registered a historic high of over $300 billion, six times higher than last year.
Virgin Media is the latest telco to cash in on the aggregator trend, building on a partnership with Netflix to allow customers to pay for the streaming service through their Virgin Media bill.
Telefónica and Netflix have jointly announced a global partnership which allow the telco’s customers to watch the popular streaming service through its content platform.
Video-on-demand giant Netflix has released some survey data indicating two thirds of people stream video content in public.
Disney has announced the acquisition of a majority stake in video streaming provider BAMTech in a step towards streaming its own content independently.
Netflix has recently released the results of its ISP Speed Index for February, which reveals Switzerland has best prime time Netflix performance worldwide, and the UK is distinctly average.
Analyst firm Ovum reckons Netflix’s spending on original content is unsustainable and something’s got to give.
Spending days on end in front of the tele making arse-prints on the sofa has gotten easier following a landmark deal between Liberty Global and Netflix.
Netflix has introduced a new feature allowing users to control the amount of data being consumed through mobile-video streaming.
Video streaming service Netflix has revealed it’s been lowering the bitrate of video it provides to customers on mobile data connections.
Vodafone UK has widened access to its top-level broadband services to a potential 22 million premises in Britain, it claims.
A number of high-profile technology and internet-based firms have formed a new standards body to develop an open and royalty-free codec for internet video streaming.
Apple has shown its lofty enterprise ambitions once again by seeking to optimise iOS device performance across Cisco’s suite of enterprise communications services.
Statistics unveiled by analysis firm Digital TV Research has projected a doubling in global OTT video streaming revenues from $26bn in 2015 to $51.1bn in 2020; highlighting the growing market share of OTT players in broadcasting.
Apple appears set to vie for control of living room entertainment, with rumours circulating from the Wall Street Journal, suggesting talks are ongoing between the consumer tech giant and several US broadcasters over the launch of a web-TV service which could land as early as September.
AT&T, Comcast and Verizon have all denounced the FCC’s net neutrality ruling, which saw a reclassification of broadband as a telecoms service under Title II. All three were staunch in their opposition to the ruling, releasing official statements declaring their disagreement, while the threat of future litigation looms due to the narrow majority of the vote. […]
DirecTV shareholders have overwhelmingly voted for the proposed take-over by AT&T. 99% of votes cast were in favour of the deal, which, if approved by regulators, will mean 77% of all shares going to AT&T.
As of Monday, video steaming service Netflix is available in France as the company seeks to expand its presence in Europe beyond the UK and Ireland. Later this month the service will also launch in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Internet video player Netflix has struck yet another peering agreement with a US carrier, this time AT&T, essentially paying for better quality of service for customers using the provider’s network. The deal was confirmed by AT&T and sits against a background of uproar over network neutrality debate in the US.
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