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Kids round-up: Hopster comes to Mediacom in US; Ameba picks up anime series

Hopster heads to Mediacom Children’s TV streamer Hopster is now available to US subscribers of the Mediacom OnDemand service. The content, focused on pre-schoolers, includes vocabulary-learning show Lingokids and the numeracy-focused Numberblocks, as well as family favourites such as Bob The Builder and In The Night Garden. Mediacom is currently offering a one-month free Hopster […]

Netflix ‘under threat as top VOD net for UK youth’

Netflix remains the most popular service for British children and teenagers, but Amazon Prime Video and Now TV are gaining ground, a new study has found. Some 58% of 13-19 year-olds polled by WPP-owned ad firm MediaCom use Netflix, making it the most popular UK subscription VOD service within the age group. However, it is […]

US pay TV ‘struggling’ to retain subs

Nine out of the top ten US pay TV operators lost subscribers in the quarter to June 30, new research reveals. Cumulatively, more than 400,600 digital television subscribers were lost in the second quarter of 2015, the informitv Multiscreen Index research showed. DirecTV, now part of AT&T, lost the most customers, 133,000, followed by Dish […]

Ex-BBC, Turner exec Cohen returns to TV

Former BBC multiplatform commissioner Nick Cohen has returned to the TV industry after three years at advertising firm Mediacom by joining Little Dot Studios. Cohen will be VP, content, strategy and brand partnerships at All3Media-backed Litte Dot, which Andy Talor and Selma Turajlic founded 18 months ago. He joins in February from WPP-owned Mediacom, where […]

Croatian pay platform partners with Toumazis’ TVbeat

A Croatian pay TV operator has become the first broadcaster to partner with UK-based audience data start-up TVbeat, which has Tom Toumazis and Laurence Miall-d’Août on its executive team. Hrvatski Telekom will receive real-time TV audience measurement data that analyses second-by-second viewer behaviour to provide insight into consumption, genre preferences, habits and trends. Hrvatski-owned broadband […]