“US cable giant Time Warner Cable is reportedly considering taking an equity stake in video-on-demand site Hulu, according to several US reports.”
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That’s a lot of videos: YouTube now responsible for 17% of home Internet traffic – GigaOm
One out of six bytes sent to households in the US and Canada is part of a YouTube video: The service’s share of residential downstream traffic has been growing.
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Yahoo! in early talks with Hulu » Digital TV Europe – digitaltveurope
“Yahoo! has reportedly held preliminary talks with US video-on-demand site Hulu and is one of a number of firms considering making a bid for the business.”
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Connected TVs Now Present in Six of Ten US Broadband Households
According to a new analysis by TDG, 56% of all US broadband households have at least one TV connected to the Internet, either directly via smart TVs or indirectly via ancillary devices like game consoles and Blu-ray players.
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» Netflix’s US Subscribers Pass HBO – Congrats and Brickbats – tdgresearch
“An important event just occurred in the evolution of OTT. Last week, Netflix released its first quarter 2013 earnings and reported 29.2 million US streaming subscribers, passing HBO (with 28.7 million US subs as of the end of 2012, estimated by SNL Kagan as reported by Variety).”
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M-Go launches on Samsung smart TVs » Digital TV Europe
“Technicolor and Dreamworks’ multiscreen video service M-Go has launched on Samsung smart TVs in the US, marking its first smart TV deployment to date.”
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The Google Fiber competitive plan for everyone else – pandodaily
“If your company wants in on this future fiber world, there is a way you can participate right now without spending hundreds of millions of dollars like Google. That’s because there are already fully operational, business accessible fiber networks deployed in cities across the US that you can partner with to deliver a Google Fiber like product.”
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Four superlatives for Netflix, which is now bigger than HBO in the US – Quartz
Netflix added three million subscribers—two million at home and one million outside the US—in the first three months of 2013, returning the subscription video service to profitability and sending its stock up nearly 25% in after-hours trading.
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TV Everywhere a hit with viewers, but authentication poses problems » Digital TV Europe
“Almost half of US pay TV subscribers have used TV Everywhere services but relatively few know the term and the majority view authentication requirements as a significant hurdle to take-up, according to a survey by research group GfK.”
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Aereo plans to launch its streaming TV service in 22 more cities this year – engadget
“The company today announced that it’s expanding outside of NYC and bringing its over-the-air TV broadcasts to 22 more US cities in 2013, with said move expected to reach cities such as Boston, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Baltimore, Denver, Detroit and Washington, DC.”
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