11 June 2015
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HAS ANNOUNCED THE LAUNCH OF “AFPTV LIVE”, A NEW SERVICE FOR TELEVISION NETWORKS OFFERING MORE THAN 500 LIVE VIDEOS A YEAR.
With this new offer, AFP significantly increases its live video production, which is tripled from June 2015. The service, available by subscription, uses technology meeting the highest market standards for live feed transmission.
Thanks to the Agency’s network in 150 countries, subscribers will have real-time access to international news, major sporting and cultural events, as well as a selection of institutional feeds, for example during international summits and special events.
AFP’s live video coverage has greatly increased since the initial trials in 2012. Dozens of hours of live video have been broadcast in 2015, including during the January events in Paris and after the March plane crash in the Alps. Live broadcasts have now been extended to all countries, from the New Year fireworks in Hong Kong to the inauguration of President Muhammad Bihari in Nigeria, the demonstrations in Tunisia after the attack on the Bardo museum and the elections in Israel.
“The launch of AFPTV Live marks a decisive moment in the development of video, which is a strategic priority and the leading driver of growth for AFP,” said AFP Chairman Emmanuel Hoog. “By continuing to meet the ever increasing demand for live content, AFP has yet again strengthened the quality of its service to clients and demonstrated that it has become a leading agency for video.”
11 June 2015
Ipsos Affluent Survey Europe 2015 results reaffirm cross-platform strength
Bloomberg Media, has reinforced its position as the number one business media brand* in Europe with the results of this year’s annual Ipsos Affluent Survey Europe (formerly European Media & Marketing Survey or EMS), the industry benchmark and globally recognised advertising tool.
The results, out today, survey the top 13% of adult European consumers based on personal income. They demonstrate the high influence** and value of the Bloomberg Media audience, showing them to be 43% more influential than the average survey respondents, as well as collectively in command of €3.9 trillion of corporate spend.
The survey confirms Bloomberg Television as the business and financial television channel of choice for advertisers wishing to reach upmarket business professionals during the business day.***
The release of the European data also shows the strength of Bloomberg Media’s digital products. Bloomberg Media has the highest reach of high-net-worth individuals (€950k+ private investments excluding home/mortgage), C-suite officers, business decision makers and financial professionals in the competitive set.
Adam Freeman, Managing Director, Bloomberg Media, EMEA, said: “The strength of our multi-platform portfolio of brands continues to grow and these Ipsos results reaffirm the power of our audience across Europe. As the number one business media brand in Europe, we can offer unique integrated campaigns for commercial partners wanting to engage elite business individuals and influencers during the most important times of the working day, something we are immensely proud of.”
Source: The Ipsos Affluent Survey Europe 2015 / Affluent 17
* Competitive set = CNBC, FT, Economist, Time, WSJ, INYT and Forbes.
Bloomberg total monthly audience= NET (Bloomberg Television viewed last month; visited website/mobile site/app last 30 days (Businessweek.com, Bloomberg.com, Bloomberg Markets), AIR of Bloomberg Markets; AIR of Businessweek x 4).
For dailies, monthly reach =NET (AIR x 24; digital monthly reach). For weeklies, monthly reach =(AIR x4; digital monthly reach). For television, monthly reach =NET (viewed channel last month; digital monthly reach). For Forbes monthly reach =(NET 1x AIR; digital monthly reach) as Forbes AIR is for three weekly and software is unable to reach a monthly code.
** Partaken in any of the following five opinion leading activities: had a book published, set up a new company, been interviewed on television/radio/in the press.
***Viewing figures based on R&F weekday day part probabilities using one spot per hour 06:00 – 17:00 CET. Competitive set defined as CNBC and Bloomberg Television.
11 June 2015
Vietnamese youth are increasingly turning to online news sources over state TV, according to data issued today by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Gallup. When asked to name the three media outlets that are their most important sources of information, almost three-fourths (74.1%) of those age 35 and older include state-run VTV among their responses, while less than half of those age 15-34 (48.6%) do so. Young people, in turn, are more likely to name online sources – most commonly the popular Vietnamese news and information portals 24 Gio and Dantri.com, and the global social media giant Facebook.
“While television ownership remains almost ubiquitous, and frequency of TV and radio use has changed only slightly, the proportion of Vietnamese adults who use the Internet weekly or more continued to rise, from 26.3% in 2012 to 38.8% today,” explained Betsy Henderson, Director of Research, Training and Evaluation at Radio Free Asia. “Mobile ownership has grown by 10 per cent since 2012, and it is the growing availability in web-enabled phones that is a key factor in rising Internet use in Vietnam.”
Mobile phones have become the primary means of accessing the Internet in Vietnam, with eight in 10 weekly web users saying they used their mobiles to go online in the past seven days. By contrast, less than half (45.5%) say they have used a desktop computer to do so, and just over one-fourth (26.5%) have used a laptop.
Despite the country’s restrictive media environment, Vietnamese are extremely avid news consumers; almost nine in 10 adults (88.0%) say they access some type of news at least daily while almost all (96.8%) do so at least once a week. There is little difference among education or age categories in these results.
Unlike in China, which has a similarly restrictive media environment, Google and top-tier social media sites such as Facebook and YouTube are available to the public, and are accessed by more than one-fourth of all adults and a majority of those age 15-24 on a weekly basis.
Almost all Vietnamese are comfortable with the idea that media organizations should advocate national interests; 92.1% strongly or somewhat agree that Vietnamese media should present the country and its people in a positive way. However, most Vietnamese (58.2%) believe personal blogs are more believable than official news, pointing to an underlying distrust of state media, particularly among younger and better-educated adults.
9 June 2015
BBC World Service
’s content in four languages is now available to users of a leading global news app for smartphones, tablets and wearables, News Republic.
Thanks to a content syndication agreement between BBC World Service and News Republic, more than 12 million active users of the News Republic news app now can access the BBC World Service news content from BBC Chinese, BBC Hindi, BBC Mundo (in Spanish) and BBC Russian.
Head of Business Development, BBC World Service, Simon Kendall, says: “We are pleased to announce this exciting development with News Republic, which will contribute to BBC World Service’s substantial audience reach in the digital space. We look forward to reaching out to new audiences through this innovative digital platform and to providing our loyal World Service audience with a new way of consuming our multilingual content.”
Gilles Raymond, CEO of News Republic, adds: “BBC World Service has a superior reputation in the news business and we are pleased to contribute to their digital deployment by bringing their news to our rapidly growing user base. Mobile apps, such as News Republic, provide the innovation required to address mobile news consumers’ demands for easy to navigate, personalised, trusted and timely news on the go, and partnering with BBC World Service will considerably enhance the content offered.”
BBC World Service also offers its own news apps for several of its language services: BBC Arabic and BBC Chinese available on iOS, BBC Brasil (iOS and Android), BBC Hindi (Android), BBC Mundo (iOS and Android), BBC Russian (iOS and Android) and BBC Turkce (Android). There is also an app for BBC News (in English), available on iOS and Android.
News Republic is free to download from Google Play for Android smartphones and tablets, and for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on the App Store.
8 June 2015
The international news channel is now available on Claro, the leading Colombian cable operator.
For the first time, Colombians will benefit from full-time access to Euronews. The news channel has just finalised an agreement with Claro, the largest telecommunications provider in Colombia, to air 24/7 its unique perspective on international news. Claro subscribers can find Euronews on the “TV Digital Avanzada” offer, in Spanish and in English.
After agreements with Claro Nicaragua and Claro Peru, this new deal enables the international news channel to improve its distribution in Colombia.
Arnaud Verlhac, Worldwide Distribution Director of Euronews said: “Since 2013, Euronews has been available part-time in Colombia. It is strategic to broadcast 24/7 the Spanish service to increase Euronews’ visibility in the country. Thanks to our agreement, Claro will bring Euronews’ view on world news to their subscribers. This is a new and important step for our development in Latin America”.
Celine Rodrigues, Regional Distribution Manager Latin America added: “This new contract is clearly an opportunity to increase our visibility. In addition, this agreement will strengthen our partnership with Claro in Latin America. We are proud to offer Euronews’ view on international affairs, in Colombia”.
Euronews covers more than 29.3 million households in Latin America.
About Claro
Claro Colombia is part of the leading telecom operator in Latin America, America Movil, and it is the preferred telecommunications operator throughout the country thanks to the widest coverage it offers in services such as TV, mobile telecommunications and broadband.
About Euronews
Euronews, the most-watched news channel in Europe, is an independent and multi-platform media hub. Euronews covers news worldwide, offering a unique perspective on events through factual analysis. Six hundred journalists, from more than 30 countries, report round-the-clock in 13 editions (Arabic, English, Persian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian). Established in 1993 in Lyon, France, the channel is received by 420 million homes in 156 countries, and offers a complete range of products: websites, smart TV, radio, on-board technology (for cars), and portable technology (mobile apps, smartwatch).
In 2015 Euronews will launch Africanews, the first pan-African multilingual news channel.
Find Euronews in your country: click here
8 June 2015
SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) announced today that its subsidiary SES Platform Services, a leading technical service provider for the digital editing and broadcasting of audiovisual content, will unveil a new solution tomorrow at ANGA COM 2015 in Cologne, called FLUIDMedia. The service will allow companies that produce or distribute video content to convert their content easily and conveniently, and deliver it to internet or video-on-demand (VOD) platforms.
Users of this new service will be able to control technical aspects such as ingestion, transcoding in various formats, quality checks, packaging and delivery via a modern, browser-based interface on SES Platform Services’ content management infrastructure.
FLUIDMedia will also be able to easily manage and customize metadata such as information about license periods, images, trailers and brief descriptions. As users only have to prepare the content and its corresponding metadata once, they can deliver this content to many partners at the same time – saving considerably on time and money.
Users will also be able to access their media assets from any computers, and also from several workstations simultaneously.
“Alongside classic linear television, the distribution of on-demand content is becoming more and more important for broadcasters and production companies,” said Sophie Lersch, Chief Product Officer for Services at SES Platform Services. “The number of video-on-demand platforms is growing, and with it their technical complexity. Video is playing an increasingly important role in other sectors too – for example, publishing and automotive. FLUIDMedia is our solution to these developments. Our new service simplifies the entire technical-operational process of video-on-demand distribution and the use of internet video for customers: from the digital supply of content to all necessary editing processes right up to final delivery. With just a few clicks of the mouse, our customers can edit their content, deliver it to any video-on-demand portals, or use it on their own platforms.”
SES Platform Services will be presenting FLUIDMedia during ANGA COM 2015 at the shared stand of Astra Deutschland, HD PLUS and SES Platform Services: Hall 10.2, Stand E15.
