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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
Parks Associates reports that the churn rate for OTT services increased from 35 per cent in Q1 2019 to 41 per cent in Q1 2020. During the Covid-19 crisis, more than two in five US broadband households have trialed an OTT service, and 8 per cent of households have trialed four or more services. “We […]
Viewers flocked to BBC iPlayer in record numbers in May, which has now become iPlayer’s biggest month ever. There were 570 million requests to stream programmes on iPlayer in May, up from 564 million programme requests in April, which was the previous best month on record, and growing an extraordinary 72 per cent on the […]
UPC is the first telco provider in Switzerland to integrate the StarzPlay streaming service. StarzPlay, the international streaming service from the premium network Starz, offers a wide range of Starz Original series along with high-profile acquired TV series and feature films that are available exclusively on StarzPlay. The streaming service is available on the new […]
This summer, Disney+ has announced a ‘Summer Movie Nights’ line-up of brand new original and newly announced movies coming to the streaming service. Beginning July 3rd with the Disney+ premieres of Hamilton, the filmed version of the original Broadway production, and Frozen 2, there will be blockbuster movies premiering every week. The Summer Movie Nights […]
Smartphone gross SVoD subscriptions for 138 countries will double between 2019 and 2025 to 170 million, according to the Smartphone SVoD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. The total will climb by 25 million in 2020 alone. The net smartphone SVoD subscriber count will