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Hot TV Industry News of the Week - 3.1.2014

Fri, Jan 3, 2014 | by Efrat Fenigson

The hottest TV industry news this week was all about collected piracy facts and factoids. Once again, Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad were the most pirated shows of the year. It’s not just the P2P content uploaders and downloaders who were looking into those and other popular shows - so were the execs at Netflix! Apparently, they look into shows that are being pirated before snatching it up for themselves. Brilliant, isn’t it? What’s also fascinating is what people searched for on BitTorrent sites throughout 2013. TorrentFreak compiled a list of the top searches, and it differs very much from the top trending searches on Google.

Tue, Dec 31, 2013 | by Efrat Fenigson

The past decade has seen content service providers scrambling for new ways to engage their consumers. As features such as traditional program guides, online portals and basic TV apps began to lose the...

Fri, Dec 27, 2013 | by Efrat Fenigson

A mix of different types of industry news made headlines this week, each very exciting. Netflix churned out a new series - for kids! They might also like the new finger gesture controls that Samsung i...

Fri, Dec 20, 2013 | by Efrat Fenigson

There was a lot of social TV and on-demand buzz making the rounds this week. In most cases, the material provided a glimpse to what 2014 might have in store. AdAge assembled a brilliant list of predic...

Wed, Dec 18, 2013 | by Efrat Fenigson

It’s that time of the year again! We are approaching the twilight of 2013, and find ourselves eagerly awaiting the beginning of 2014.

Fri, Dec 13, 2013 | by Efrat Fenigson

This week proved to be an interesting one for the TV industry. Experts are claiming that nearly 1.7 billion OTT devices are set to ship by the end of this year, which is great news for the cable indus...

Wed, Dec 11, 2013 | by David Leporini

Yesterday was a good time for enterprise security practitioners. Back then it was enough to install a device to protect a building, and that was it. Unfortunately, such good times are gone. In fact, w...

Fri, Dec 6, 2013 | by Efrat Fenigson

There has been a mix of interesting TV industry news making the rounds this week. The most surprising of all was Apple’s acquisition of Topsy. What were they thinking? They must have had social TV in ...

Wed, Dec 4, 2013 | by François Moreau de Saint-Martin

Connections Europe 2013 proved to be an enlightening event for all attendees. Spanning two days in beautiful Amsterdam, the agenda was packed with discussions led by renowned executives of top compani...