(2013-10-31) China's television watchdog has urged satellite channels across the country to limit air time given to TV shopping commercials from next year. ...

The great majority of advertising executives continue to regard television advertising as being more effective than online video a new survey has said. Placemedia, a self-service portal for TV advertisers, surveyed 264 advertising executives to provide...

Nielsen has taken another step forward in its efforts to incorporate audiences viewing TV content on digital devices into traditional TV measurement for the 2014-15 TV season, by now including mobile viewership. ...

The television licensing debacle has posed another challenge to chief executive Leung Chun-ying. It started with his cabinet being accused of unfairness for rejecting Hong Kong Television Network's bid to go on air, while approving two pay-TV operators to...

At the end of June, there were 87.2 million IPTV subscribers around the world, according to research company Point Topic, which reports slower growth in mature markets such as North America, Western Europe and Asia. ...

Some 90% of US smart-TV owners said that they connect their set to the internet, while 80% have used them to access OTT services like Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon Instant Video, according to IHS. ...

Marketers continue to gradually increase their global ad spending, as expenditures grew 3.5 percent in the second quarter of 2013 and 2.8 percent on a year-over-year basis for the January-June periods of 2013 and 2012, according to Nielsen’s quarterly...

As the Asian multichannel landscape gears up to convene in Hong Kong next week, Christopher Slaughter, the CEO of CASBAA, talks about some of the highlights of this year's convention and the key issues facing the region's pay-TV channels and platforms. ...

Like a lot of kids, growing up, I was convinced that much of what I was taught in school would prove to be of little use to me as an adult. And while my younger self wasn’t totally wrong—I’ve yet to reference the atomic mass of Tungsten in...

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