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Research: “STBs can adapt to have a role in OTT market”

Parks Associates research shows the number of hours per week consumers spend watching online video has almost doubled from 3.6 hours per week in 2017 to nearly seven hours per week in 2020. The Set-top Box Innovations and Trends report also notes traditional pay-TV has declined from an adoption rate of 75 per cent to […]

July 2, 2020

Forecast: AVoD market to increase fast on global scale

The Covid-19 crisis highlighted a considerable increase in video consumption, reports market analyst company Dataxis. In the US, Comcast has seen a 50 per cent rise in VoD viewing over March and April 2020 for instance. While SVoD and linear-OTT environments have become more overcrowded over the last years (households in the US now subscribe […]

July 2, 2020

Peacock signs content deal with ViacomCBS

Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, has announced an agreement to license popular Paramount movies and TV shows from the ViacomCBS library. Hit series including Ray Donovan, The Affair, Charmed, Undercover Boss, The Game, Everybody Hates Chris and Real Husbands of Hollywood will be available to stream on Peacock with the launch of the service on July 15th in the US – and will […]

July 2, 2020

Vewd brings live TV to Smart TV with Broadcast Plus

Vewd, a provider of OTT software solutions, has launched Broadcast Plus, a solution that offers smart TV manufacturers an easy-to-deploy, certification-ready broadcaster user experience for both live TV and on-demand content. Broadcast Plus provides the necessary user experience components for live TV including a Programme Guide that merges live, OTT, and catch-up content, a broadcast […]

July 2, 2020

Netflix producing D.P. series from Korean webtoon

Netflix has confirmed production for the original series D.P. in collaboration with Director Han Jun-hee, who is well known for his movies Coin Locker Girl and Hit-and-Run Squad. D.P. is based on the webtoon D.P: Dog Days by Kim Bo-tong. It tells the story of Jun-ho, a South Korean Army private who is assigned to […]

July 2, 2020

Report: TVE an important anti-churn factor in Nordics

TV Everywhere (TVE), services that mirror pay-TV content online, has been a staple offering for some time now. The Nordic operators have been pushing consumer awareness of TVE as this feature is a retention tool. According to Mediavision analysis, the awareness among the customers is increasing fast. Since 2016, consumer awareness of TV everywhere has […]

July 1, 2020

Prime Video tests Watch Party feature in US

Amazon Prime Video is beginning to roll out a co-viewing feature to Amazon Prime members in the US. The ‘Watch Party’ feature, which is included at no extra cost with a Prime membership, allows participants to watch video content together at the same time with the playback synchronised to the host’s account. The host of […]

July 1, 2020

HBO GO now available as D2C app in Taiwan

HBO GO, WarnerMedia’s regional streaming service in Southeast Asia, is now available directly to consumers via app stores in Taiwan. Following launch agreements with distribution partners early this year, HBO GO can now also be downloaded as a standalone service from the App Store (NT$150 per month) or on Google Play (NT$149). There is also […]

July 1, 2020

Kagan: More pay-TV providers integrate streamers

Service providers accounting for nearly one-third of global pay TV subscribers have introduced integrated access to streaming services, according to Ian Olgeirson, Research Director for Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market. “Streaming service integration has become increasingly

June 30, 2020

Survey: 84% interested in searching content from every source

TiVo has analysed consumer data from the US and Canada to track changes in an evolving media landscape during the Covid-19 pandemic In the latest TiVo Trends Report, the company has added its own internal viewership data to the report. More than 4,500 viewers were surveyed for the report. Key findings include: – Pay-TV subscribers […]

June 30, 2020