OTT/Streaming
How Female Executives are Leading the International Streaming Business (Variety)
Streaming heavyweights have big global aspirations, and they’re relying on a growing cadre of women to realize them.... More
Film Festival Flix Curates Women in Cinema Collection, Highlighting Female-led Filmmaking Teams
The Women in Cinema collection on Film Festival Flix is comprised of seventeen critically-acclaimed and award-winning films: written, directed, and/or otherwise created by female-l... More
BritBox to Launch on Amazon Prime Video Channels (BTN)
The launch will make BritBox available on over 40 million devices, representing 90% of video-on-demand homes.... More
Latin America to Add 63M SVOD Subscriptions Over Five Years (RTN)
The Latin America market will have 116 million subscription video-on-demand customers by 2026, up from 53 million recorded at the end of 2020.... More
Research: What the New Streamer Really Wants
An Amdocs survey shows expectations around streaming have changed. What does this mean for communications service providers and content creators?... More
Europe’s New Rules of Engagement With Streamers Making Slow But Steady Progress (Variety)
The new rules — for which the formal deadline was January 2021, but there is some leeway — will involve investment obligations and in some countries, setting out terms of trade... More
Amazon Wants to be the Exclusive Provider of All Thursday NFL Games Starting in 2023 (CNBC)
Amazon is open to producing all Thursday night NFL games for its Prime Video streaming platform.... More
Viewers Will Pay No More Than $15.16 for Premium VOD Movies (BTN)
A new report is warning operators are fast approaching the ceiling for the amount viewers are willing to pay in purchasing a VOD movie.... More
Record Year for Smart Speakers (DTE)
More than 150 million smart speakers were sold in 2020, a new report has revealed. A positive holiday shopping season contributed to a positive year in which the market grew to a r... More
How Disney Plus Wins by Breaking All the Rules of Streaming
Disney has the luxury of an enormous library that allows it to sit back on its haunches and not worry too much about generating new content.... More
Las Cruces Film Festival Brings ‘Reimagining Borders’ to Film Festival Flix
The Virtual Film Festival model has proven successful for many Festivals, from big names like Sundance, to those niche fests you may not have heard much about, like the Silicon Val... More
Have We Hit Peak Streaming? (The Verge)
Paramount Plus is just the latest, and arguably the last, big entry in the space. Has it finally hit the point where there’s too much choice?... More
North American OTT Market to Double in Revenue by 2026 (DTE)
The US, which is the world’s most mature OTT market and home to the world’s leading SVOD services, will see revenues more than double despite its maturity.... More
Third New App in as Many Weeks for Film Festival Flix
The company is adding an Android TV app, available in the Google Play store, to the multitude of ways that patrons can watch. (more…)... More
Music Streaming Revenues Cross $10B Mark (Variety)
It marks the fifth consecutive year of growth for the industry, as paid subscription services continue to expand their reach among the music-listening public.... More
OTT Streaming Services in 2021: Top Trends to Look Out For (Synamedia Blog)
Despite (or maybe, in part, because of) all the disruption throughout last year, OTT streaming services had another landmark year—with more services and more content reaching mor... More
Why Star is Disney’s Next Big Salvo in Its Streaming War With Netflix (THR)
The family-friendly Hollywood giant bets that more adult programming will help boost subscribers — at the risk of brand confusion. ... More
Original Shows Give Netflix Big Edge in Streaming Wars (Next TV)
Original content is a big driver of viewing and new subscriber sign ups for streaming services. New research backs up the industry's notion that spending on original productions at... More
ViacomCBS Unveils Streaming Strategy (BTN)
Due to launch in the US, Canada and 18 Latin American countries on March 4, Paramount+ will have two pricing tiers available to U.S. subscribers that marry the best of live and on-... More
Netflix ‘in Talks’ to Use New Enfield Studios (TVB)
According to the Sunday Telegraph, the streaming company has been looking into taking over the whole of SEGRO Park Enfield for film studio space.... More
