Monthly Archives: July 2018
SVG On Demand: NBC Sports Digital’s Eric Black on How Mobile Shaped Telemundo’s World Cup Streaming Success
Written on July 30, 2018 at 2:15 pm, by Brandon Costa, Director of Digital
Telemundo enjoyed a wildly successful FIFA World Cup this summer, most notably on digital, logging huge viewership numbers on the streaming side. SVG’s Jason Dachman caught up with Eric Black, […] More
SVG Sports OTT Forum: Inaugural Event Preaches Collaboration To Tackle Industry Challenges
Written on July 30, 2018 at 1:36 pm, by Brandon Costa, Director of Digital
The inaugural SVG Sports OTT Forum brought in-depth conversation and networking to the live–sports-streaming industry last week. More than 200 attendees discussed such topics as OTT product offerings, direct-to-consumer business […] More
FloSports Adds Eleven Sports Programming to Streaming Schedule
Written on July 30, 2018 at 12:50 pm, by SVG Staff
FloSports announced an arrangement for live events with Eleven Sports U.S. Under the agreement, FloSports will have exclusive digital-only rights to distribute an Eleven Sports programming feed that includes nearly […] More
NFL Extends Multi-Year Deal With Snapchat
Written on July 30, 2018 at 12:22 pm, by SVG Staff
The National Football League and Snapchat announced a multi-year partnership extension — bolstering their relationship in advance of the 2018 NFL season to distribute NFL content to Snapchat’s more than […] More
NBC Sports Group Brings Premier League Show To Snapchat for U.S. Viewers
Written on July 30, 2018 at 12:12 pm, by SVG Staff
NBC Sports Group has partnered with Snapchat on Premier League: Extra Time, a new Premier League-focused weekly original show, which will debut exclusively on Snapchat’s Discover page at the start […] More
Friend MTS to debut 4K/UHD subscriber watermarking service
Written on July 30, 2018 at 9:40 am, by SVG Staff
Content and revenue protection specialist Friend MTS will be showcasing its 4K/UHD ASiD watermarking and global channel monitoring service at IBC next month. Designed for broadcast and OTT applications, this will […] More
Survey: OTT Providers Beating Traditional Pay TV Rivals, Struggling With Customer Experience
Written on July 30, 2018 at 9:09 am, by SVG Staff
According to new research from Paywizard, consumers now give higher negative ratings to traditional cable, satellite and IPTV pay-TV operators than online video-on-demand (VOD) providers such as Netflix, Amazon and […] More
Verizon Digital Media Services Appoints Ariff Sidi as Chief Product Officer
Written on July 30, 2018 at 9:04 am, by SVG Staff
Verizon Digital Media Services, part of Oath, announced that Ariff Sidi has joined as Chief Product Officer. He will oversee the division’s global product portfolio of industry-leading live and VOD […] More
Harmonic Awarded U.S. Patent for CableOS Virtualized Cable Access Platform
Written on July 30, 2018 at 9:00 am, by SVG Staff
Harmonic announced that it has been awarded Patent Number 10,020,962 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the invention of the “Virtual Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) Core.” The […] More
Live From Overwatch League Grand Finals: Blizzard Entertainment Rolls Out Its Largest Esports Production Ever
Written on July 27, 2018 at 6:01 pm, by Jason Dachman, Chief Editor
The inaugural Overwatch League season comes to a close this weekend with the Grand Finals at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, and the Blizzard Entertainment production team is lending it the “Blizzard […] More