According to an article from Ben Fritz at the Wall Street Journal, Apple is preparing a move into original content production, as it seeks to take on the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. A move that could make it […]
BBC Director-General Tony Hall has said the corporation needs to reinvent its on-demand iPlayer service to make the leap from a catch-up service to a “must-visit” destination in its own right in the face of rapid growth by its competitors […]
In a move that’s bound to re-ignite the Net Neutrality debate, giant US telco AT&T and Time Warner have entered into a definitive agreement under which AT&T will acquire Time Warner in a stock-and-cash transaction valued at US$107.50 per share, valuing […]
Five-year-old, Stockholm based, app developer Toca Boca, best known for their Toca Kitchen, and Toca Hair Salon apps, is launching a new SVOD service, targeted squarely kids aged between 5 and 9. Toca TV, represents the next phase in Toca’s […]
Australian SVOD service Presto, has become the first major casualty of Australia’s streaming wars with shareholders Foxtel and Seven West Media calling it quits on the business amid a highly competitive market. Foxtel will instead slash the price and revamp […]
Canadian streaming service Shomi, has announced it will be shutting down operations as of November 30th. The cult SVOD service, launched just over two years ago, and had experienced challenges growing its subscriber base. In addition to this, one of […]
When most people think P2P, they think Napster, Kazaa or BitTorrent. These trail blazing, first-gen P2P pioneers brought the music industry to its knees, more than a decade ago, with their contentious file-sharing apps. Used mainly to ‘exchange’ MP3’s, videos, […]
This is an ongoing project, to document a timeline of key events in the evolution of streaming media. 1992 January – Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) version 1 released. March – First internet Audiocast of 23rd Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting in San Diego. June – Multicast backbone (MBone), released […]
Social media giant Facebook has confessed that it has overestimated how much video people have watched through its service for the last two years. The error affected a Facebook metric called “average duration of video viewed”, which was supposed to […]
BT is reportedly negotiating to buy YouView – the connected TV joint-venture it shares with the BBC, TalkTalk, ITV, C4 and C5 and Arqiva. According to The Daily Telegraph, talks have stalled on valuations, with BT initially looking to buy […]
