Digital TV News: Accel

Warner Bros. Discovery adds 2 million DTC subscribers in 1Q 2024
May 9, 2024 – Warner Bros. Discovery (Nasdaq: WBD) has reported results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. Global DTC subscribers were 99.6 million at the end of Q1, an increase of 2.0 million versus Q4.
News categories: Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav, Digital TV, Results, Streaming, Subscribers, USA, Worldwide

Telefónica pay TV accesses down 45,000 in 1Q 2024
May 9, 2024 – Telefónica has presented results for the first quarter of 2024. In Spain, Pay TV net adds were positive for the third quarter in a row (+7k). Globally Pay TV subscribers fell 45,000.
News categories: Telefónica, Brazil, Digital TV, IPTV, Latin America, Results, Satellite, Spain, UK

Hubbl integrates global streaming apps with Amdocs
May 8, 2024 – Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX) has announced that Foxtel has deployed its Subscription Marketplace on Foxtel's streaming aggregation service, Hubbl, integrating global streaming content apps into the platform.
News categories: Amdocs, Hubbl, Anthony Goonetilleke, Les Wigan, Apps, Australia, Digital TV, Streaming

Livepeer Studio cuts the cost of live streaming & transcoding
May 8, 2024 – Livepeer Studio enables providers to step away from using traditional cloud giants and tap into a decentralized network architecture, driving down video transcoding and delivery fees by up to 80%.
News categories: Livepeer Studio, Eric Tang, Bill Ottman, Rudy J. Ellis, Content Distribution, Digital TV, NABShow, Streaming, Worldwide

FuboTV releases results for quarter ended March 31, 2024
May 3, 2024 – FuboTV (NYSE: FUBO) has announced results for 1Q 2024. The company closed with 1.511 million paid subscribers in North America, up 18% YoY, and 397,000 subscribers in the Rest of World, up 5% YoY.
News categories: FuboTV, David Gandler, Edgar Bronfman Jr, Digital TV, North America, Results, Streaming, Subscribers, Worldwide

IDC forecasts slower growth for global telecoms market
May 3, 2024 – Worldwide spending on Telecom Services and Pay TV Services was $1,509 billion in 2023, according to IDC. IDC expects spending to increase by 1.4% in 2024 to reach a total of $1,530 billion.
News categories: IDC, Digital TV, Market Research, Worldwide

Aptoide sells stake in Faurecia Aptoide Automotive
May 2, 2024 – Aptoide has announced the sale of its participation in Faurecia Aptoide Automotive to Forvia. Faurecia Aptoide is forecast to achieve 20% market share in automotive apps by 2025 and 35% by 2030.
News categories: Aptoide, Forvia, Paulo Trezentos, Patrick Koller, Apps, Content Distribution, In-Car, MandA, Worldwide

Freely streaming service launches in the UK
Apr 30, 2024 – Everyone TV's new streaming service Freely has launched. Backed by BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, Freely is available through the next generation of smart TVs now on sale in UK stores and online.
News categories: Everyone TV, Xperi, Hisense, Freely, Kieran Clifton, Martin Goswami, Grace Boswood, James Tatam, Gabriel Cosgrave, Digital TV, Middleware, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial, TV OS, UK, UX

TV3 migrates from on-prem servers to AWS Cloud with Redge
Apr 18, 2024 – Redge Technologies partnered with TV3 to migrate its infrastructure from on-premises servers situated in Riga to AWS, following the guidelines of the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP).
News categories: Redge, TV3, Baltics, Content Distribution, Digital TV