One of Australia’s leading commercial broadcasters has warned media owners that any programmatic solutions that bundle premium video into a homogenised CTV inventory pool are a long-term threat to business. Global ad-supported streaming, on the other hand, is good for everyone selling quality content.

Guy Bisson at Ampere Analysis believes the future of partnership and M&A will cross-match global distributors, regional content providers, global content providers and regional distributors. Such deals will help traditional media survive a world where geographic licensing and traditional windowing are being killed by streaming.

A Q4 2024 survey of 3,485 US and 1,005 Canadian adults shows a meaningful dip in self-declared spending on video entertainment, down $19 since the same time last year.

ScreenHits is already being used as the TV entertainment aggregator in several Porsche models and the latest news confirms the company as a major player in the nascent connected entertainment car market.

The sports and entertainment broadcaster has launched a subscription service in selected countries called BeIn Stream, with the ambition of broadening its market. BeIn branded, thin-client Senza set-top box-style devices are already in consumer homes.

The native home-screen ad format on smart TVs is moving beyond its initial advertiser base of media and entertainment companies to “general market” brands, according to two executives who should know.

The new offer lets viewers watch up to four games simultaneously on the same screen. The underlying technology combines multiple live feeds into a single video output stream while maintaining individual audio tracks.

The New Zealand broadcaster is claiming a significant step forward in campaign management and ad monetisation for total TV by making it possible to extend already-sold linear broadcast campaigns into its TVNZ+ streaming service at scale. The “digital extension spots” come with typical linear controls.

V-Nova Studios is pioneering an immersive, 360-degree virtual-reality viewing format that it believes will revolutionise home entertainment. There is no motion sickness and only modest reformatting costs.

By rendering the TV user interface and apps in the cloud, the solution dramatically lowers the cost of running a TV service. The latest deployment, at a broadband provider serving native Americans, demonstrates the potential to encourage new-to-TV operators and content owners.