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Singtel has launched over-the-top (OTT) movie and TV service Hooq to its customers in Singapore, 22 months after the company announced the joint venture with Sony and Warner Bros. Hooq has been available for some time as a rival to Netflix via Singtel…
Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holding’s mobile division 3 Hong Kong is offering a year’s free subscription to its premium subscription TV and VOD service to all new and existing 4G users. The mobile version of the myTV SUPER and TVB Premium…
HKBN has expanded its relationship with broadcaster TVB covering the delivery of TVB’s myTV SUPER set-top box service. The operator has ordered an additional 450,000 set top boxes from TVB to meet customer demand, and has raised its target for the number of…
Cisco is teaming up with LeCloud Computing to drive the development of Digital Rights Management (DRM) through its leading VideoGuard Everywhere DRM solution. The two companies have built a DRM cloud platform that makes cloud services global. It is compatible…
Telstra unit Ooyala has introduced Ooyala AppStudio, its new turnkey over-the-top (OTT) solution for video providers to cost-effectively build and deploy comprehensive OTT app- and web-based video entertainment experiences. According to a report by DTVR, OTT…
Singtel has expanded its media content portfolio with the launch of Singapore’s first OTT video portal app, open to the operator’s postpaid mobile customers. The operator’s new Cast portal will offer content from major providers including Viu and Nickelodeon,…
Nearly every Asian mobile operator is interested in pursuing partnerships with OTT players to combat the growing problem of revenue loss, a survey suggests. The survey, conducted by Alepo ahead of Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2016, shows that just over half…
Taiwanese film distribution and production company CatchPlay group has launched a streaming video-on-demand service in Indonesia with the country’s state-owned telecommunications giant Telkom Indonesia after offering such a service in Taiwan in March. The…
Vuclip, a PCCW Media company launched in Indonesia the over-the-top (OTT) video-on-demand (VOD) service Viu, which has already rolled out in Malaysia, India, Hong Kong and Singapore. To amplify its efforts to deliver throughout Indonesia, Vuclip has entered…
Ooyala is now the ad delivery provider for Voot, a new over-the-top (OTT) service from Viacom18, a joint venture between Viacom and the Network18 Group. The company is using Ooyala Pulse to manage and deliver video ad campaigns across its new mobile app and…
Online video piracy is alive and well in 2016, but the threat landscape has shifted from straight conditional access (CA) technology and P2P file-sharing to illegal OTT set-top-boxes (STBs) that connect users to sites that look like professional OTT service…
Brightcove unveiled a series of product enhancements and technology innovations for its video platform and gave a sneak peek of its upcoming roadmap for the remainder of the year at its annual conference, PLAY 2016. The following products and enhancements…
Vindicia, the leader in enterprise-class subscription billing, and Ooyala, a leading video, analytics, and advertising technology provider, today announced key findings from a study that explores the Asia Pacific (APAC) market opportunity for premium…
The Communication and Informatics Ministry (Ministry) plans to issue a regulation that mandates over the top (OTT) content provider companies to establish a permanent business entity in Indonesia starting on April 2016. “The Ministry obliges OTT content…
The Indonesian government plans to block over-the-top (OTT) applications that fail to meet the state regulation on permanent business entities. Rudiantara, Minister of Communication and Informatics, said his department is finalizing a bill related to the…
Mega Media Indonesia, owner of satellite pay-TV service Orange TV, has selected Irdeto’s Multiscreen services to support the commercial launch of its Genflix over-the-top (OTT) content delivery service. Mega Media has been working closely with Irdeto since…