AT&T shares dipped around one and a half percent in aftermarket trading Tuesday after the company posted fourth quarter results that missed expectations by $650 million. For the fourth quarter 2015, AT&T reported consolidated revenues of $42.1 billion, which was up 22 percent year-over-year but below the $42.75 consensus figure pegged by Thomson Reuters. AT&T […]
Report: Comcast Has Highest Number of TV Everywhere Users
U.S. TV provider Comcast has the highest number of TV Everywhere subscribers with 10.1 million, beating out competitors like DirecTV, Time Warner Cable and Dish Network, according to a new report from analyst firm Rethink Research. According to the report, DirecTV closely trailed Comcast with 9.3 million users and was followed in turn by TWC […]
iSpot Launches Ad Performance Tracker for IP TV
Television ad tracking company iSpot announced new capabilities Monday that enable it to track TV ad performance on more than 10 million IP-enabled TV screens across all DMAs, operators and over-the-top devices. According to iSpot, the company is able to track ads and offer syndicated impression and average view rate measurements that take into account […]
Sprint Rebounds with 501k Postpaid Net Adds, Record-Low Churn
Sprint shares were on a massive 12 percent upswing Tuesday morning after the carrier announced its half-off promotion produced 501,000 net additions and record-low churn in the three months ending December 2015. Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure said the quarter’s churn rate of 1.62 percent was the best ever postpaid churn in the third fiscal quarter […]
Viacom, Canvs Partnership Seeks To Hone In On Emotions
Viacom’s marketing and creative content team Viacom Velocity has teamed up with language analysis platform Canvs in an attempt to feel out user reactions to its marketing campaigns. Viacom said the partnership will integrate Velocity’s Echo Social Graph product, which measures the effectiveness and virality of marketing campaigns, with Canvs’ emotional language analysis to “devlier […]
Alticast Has a Vision For the Future of TV (And It’s Awesome)
Korean-based middleware company Alticast is currently working on two different – but possibly interconnected – projects that will change the way consumers interact with their TV. Taken together, the ideas represent a new vision not just for the role of the TV in the home, but also for the future of operators. Aimed at contextualizing […]
Auction Offers Opportunity for Broadcasters Looking for Exit
The upcoming FCC spectrum auction might just prove to be the best opportunity for broadcasters looking to make a change, one industry expert said. According to Dan Hays, U.S. Mobile Services Advisory Leader at consulting firm PwC, the auction is the perfect chance for broadcasters to make a getaway but also offers benefits to those […]
Senators Question FCC’s High-Speed Internet Requirements
Six GOP senators wrote to FCC chairman Tom Wheeler this week to express their concern that the commission has set an overly ambitious benchmark for broadband internet speeds. As first reported by The Hill, the senators – who include Steve Daines (R-MT), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Ron Johnson (R-WI), and […]
Report: Google Paid Apple $1B for iPhone Search Bar
Turns out the Google search bar on your iPhone doesn’t come cheap. According to court documents filed in Oracle’s lawsuit against Google, the latter tech giant reportedly paid device maker Apple $1 billion in 2014 to keep its search bar on the iPhone, Bloomberg reported. The revelation is just one of many that have sprung […]
Expert: Broadband Quality, Not Speed Most Important Measure for ISPs
Internet service providers (ISPs) looking to improve user experiences need to invest in more than just faster speeds, one expert said According to Dave Page, CEO and co-founder of Actual Experience, a narrow-minded focus on faster speeds alone will lead to a lot of wasted spending, both on the part of ISPs and their customers. […]