OTT/Streaming

 

Canal+ ‘Planning Relaunch’ of CanalPlay SVOD Service (Digital TV Europe)

Canal+ plans to relaunch its subscription video-on-demand service CanalPlay in the spring with a €10 monthly fee and possibly with a new name. The pay TV operator is planning a r... More

Twitter to Livestream NBA Games – Featuring a Camera Feed of a Single, Fan-Voted Player (Variety)

Twitter is doubling down on its strategy of complementing TV rather than trying to eat into television audiences. Under a new partnership inked by the NBA, Turner Sports and Twitte... More

Netflix Ramps Up Local Content Production (Advanced Television)

Netflix is aggressively ramping up global productions, particularly in Europe and Asia according to a report from Ampere Analysis. Netflix has seen impressive growth in these marke... More

Netflix Opens Eyes in Hollywood as ‘Bird Box’ Soars (WSJ)

Netflix rarely releases data on viewership of its content. But in the case of “Bird Box,” a tale about a resourceful mother protecting children from a homicidal force, the comp... More

PGA Tour, Twitter Expand Live-Streaming Partnership (Sports Pro)

The PGA Tour has renewed and expanded its partnership with Twitter in a deal that will see the social media giant globally live-stream and distribute close to 140 hours of action f... More

Hulu Tops 25 Million Subscribers (Variety)

Hulu is keeping its pedal to metal in the streaming TV race: The company said it ended 2018 with more than 25 million total subscribers, a net gain of 8 million for the year. The 4... More

Amazon, Hulu, Netflix Nab Golden Globes as Streaming Services Take on Hollywood Incumbents (GeekWire)

Streaming companies made progress in their quest to unseat the entertainment industry’s aging kings Sunday, winning several Golden Globes awards. Amazon and Hulu nabbed early vic... More

BBC Proposes Major Overhaul of Digital Service iPlayer (Deadline)

The British public broadcaster has launched a public consultation on its plans to “reinvent” the iPlayer. It is hoping to make its key dramas and comedies as well as non-script... More

Apple’s App Store Sets Holiday, New Year’s Day Sales Records (Billboard)

Apple's App Store had a particularly merry holiday season, setting new sales records to cap an already record-breaking year. The tech giant announced on Thursday (Jan. 3) user spen... More

Will Apple’s Swoon Impact Streaming Media? (THR)

Apple hasn't revealed its ultimate strategy for taking on Netflix and the others, but few on Wall Street doubt that Apple has something substantial up its sleeve.... More

Streaming Video Will Continue to Dominate Screens as Cord Cutting Accelerates Into 2019 (USA Today)

Streaming video blasted beyond any tipping point in 2018 and will command even more attention in the coming year, but challenges lie ahead in the fight for viewers' eyeballs and po... More

Sales of Physical Music Media in UK Slump as Consumers Move to Streaming Services (Forbes)

Sales of CDs in the UK in 2018 amounted to 32 million units, that’s some 100 million fewer discs that were selling just 10 years ago in 2008, and a drop of 9.6 million year-on-ye... More

Prime Focus Technologies Celebrates Innovation Award, Successful Oppo Ad Campaign

Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) closed out 2018 with a couple victories, including a 2018 Product Innovation Award, and a YouTube top 10 ad of the year. Trade journal “TV Techn... More

CES 2019: AT&T Communications CEO Donovan to Deliver Keynote

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has announced that AT&T Communications CEO John Donovan will lead a keynote session titled New Frontiers in Mobile at CES 2019. Donova... More

Amazon Drives PGA Tour Live to OTT Viewers (Sports Pro)

Amazon has struck a deal to stream PGA Tour Live content via Prime Video Channels, the ecommerce giant’s over-the-top streaming platform. The deal will allow US subscribers to li... More

On-Demand is in Demand (TVB Europe)

Looking ahead to 2019, it appears that SVoD is set to experience a massive increase in revenue. Some estimates put that total revenue figure at more than $35 billion. So, clearly, ... More

Media’s Big 2019 Challenge: Building New Netflixes While Consumers Keep Cutting Cords (Variety)

As media companies work to build new connections through broadband streaming, they continue to lose links to consumers via cable and satellite subscriptions.... More

Study: ‘Friends,’ ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Were Most Binge-Watched TV Shows of 2018 (Variety)

“Friends” — which last aired on broadcast TV 14 years ago — was the most binge-watched television show of 2018 thanks to the full run being on Netflix, according to a new s... More

Is Vertical Video the Future of Streaming in China? (THR)

Given that user-generated video — which is as wildly popular on Chinese social media services as it is on Snapchat and Instagram in the U.S. (both of which are blocked in China) ... More

For the First Time, All Three Streamers are Oscar-Bound (Wired)

Just five years ago, the notion that any of these companies being in the running for a major Oscar trophy seemed far-fetched. After all, these were relatively young companies with ... More

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