Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and AT&T have confirmed that SPE has completed its acquisition of AT&T’s Crunchyroll anime business through Funimation Global Group. Funimation is a joint venture between SPE and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) subsidiary, Aniplex Inc. The agreement was first announced in December 2020. Crunchyroll is a premier anime direct-to-consumer service with 5 […]
YouTube and Google TV have incorporated global content demand analytics specialist Parrot Analytics’ global audience demand data and entertainment consulting services to help make insight-driven content decisions. Parrot Analytics’ data products provide near real-time updates on the most in-demand TV series and streaming platforms in any market in the world. The insights help inform YouTube […]
Spain’s La Liga and private equity firm CVC plan to launch their own streaming platform, according to business daily El Confidencial, challenging telco operators which offer football match streaming in their packages. La Liga agreed to a deal in which CVC would invest €2.7 billion for 10 per cent revenue and a 10 per cent […]
To understand better how digital broadcasters are using video in 2021, video player software specialist JW Player surveyed film and TV media companies ranging from independent niche broadcasters to comScore Top 100 media giants. The insights from the survey include their 2021 engagement goals, monetisation strategies, KPIs, how to measure success, and how they’re using […]
Content aggregator SPI/FilmBox has expanded its distribution deal with Samsung Electronics’ free streaming service, Samsung TV Plus to include SPI’s brand-new ad-supported digital channel Docustream in India. Docustream’s documentaries are now available to Samsung TV Plus users in India via Samsung-branded Smart TVs and select Samsung mobile devices. “Following the success of Filmstream with Samsung […]
Australian television network Network 10 has signed a content partnership deal with the short film platform discover.film, marking the first time that short form content has been made available on the 10 Play AVoD and catch-up streaming platform. discover.film’s collection of short films launched August 9th on 10 Play. The content will be refreshed monthly […]
Video delivery platform technologist SeaChange International has strengthened its longstanding collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable enhanced data analytics on top of its fully-migrated, cloud-based video delivery platform. Building on a collaboration that dates back to 2016, SeaChange is leveraging AWS’s artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services to facilitate a robust […]
New research from Parks Associates finds that US cord-cutters are spending $85 (€72) per month on average for their online pay-TV or standalone subscription-based services, roughly $30 less than what they were paying for traditional pay-TV service. The firm’s Quantified Consumer: Cutters, Nevers, and the Rebundling of Video, examines consumer trends in unbundling video services […]
As more Americans are approaching what their lives looked like before Covid, their attitudes are beginning to return to normal. However, Hub Entertainment Research’s newest wave of Predicting the Pandemic study shows there’s evidence that many changes in behaviour – including some of those most disruptive to the entertainment industry – are here to stay. […]
RTL Group results for the six months ending June 30th 2021 show that group revenue was up 13.7 per cent to €3.014 billion (H1/2020: €2.652bn), mainly as a result of strong growth of TV advertising revenue in the second quarter of 2021, of Fremantle and of the streaming businesses. Group revenue was up 21.5 per […]