StarzPlay, the SVoD service from Starz, has acquired drama series Pennyworth for the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria and Latin America. From Warner Horizon Scripted Television, the DC origin series Pennyworth follows Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon – The Imitation Game), a former British SAS soldier in his 20s, who forms a security […]
The third season of Netflix sci-fi drama Stranger Things has proved hugely popular since launching on July 4th, breaking the streaming service’s viewer records. More than 40 million households watched the show in its first four days, Netflix revealed in a tweet, with over 18 million of that figure binging all eight episodes. As a […]
A study has found that worldwide illegal streaming of the English Premier League (EPL) delivers £1 million (€0.89m) in uncaptured sponsorship media value per match. The study – produced by sponsorship valuation firm GumGum Sports in partnership with digital piracy authority MUSO at the behest of
The official YouTube app for Amazon Fire TV is now availabe in the UK on Fire TV Stick (2nd Gen) and Fire TV Stick 4K. The new YouTube app will expand to additional existing Fire TV devices in the coming months, with YouTube Kids launching later this year. Customers can find the new YouTube app tile in their […]
Netflix has lined up arguably its most ambitious movie to date, having acquired action-thriller Red Notice. Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson will front the action-thriller, supported by Hollywood superstars Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot. The film was originally set to be released by Universal Pictures, but Netflix has now taken over the production of the film […]
ThinkAnalytic has announced that its cloud-based personalised content discovery platform is the first in the industry to scale to over 100 million monthly active users in the cloud. ThinkAnalytics’ customers rely on this ability to deal with massive scale to power personalized user experiences as they undergo rapid growth in both audience numbers and the […]
VOD365, a provider of branded OTT TV channels via Freeview, YouView, Freesat, mobile and smart TV devices, has struck a content deal with global content creator, producer and distributor Endemol Shine Group for over 300 hours of programming to appear on their kids entertainment channel Ketchup TV and documentary channel Planet Knowledge. The partnership will […]
3 Screen Solutions (3SS), a provider of software solutions for STB and multiscreen digital entertainment, has been chosen to provide development, engineering and integration for Joyn, the new entertainment streaming service co-owned by ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery. Joyn (formerly 7TV) features Germany’s biggest range of free-TV content, including live TV and catch-up, with live streams from […]
The Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) is the latest sports organisation to accuse beoutQ of blatant piracy. The CAF licenses its games only to Qatar’s beIN Sports, but that doesn’t seem to create a headache for Saudi Arabia’s piracy operation beoutQ which has telecast the 2019 Total Africa Cup tournament. CAF said that all 36 […]
Research by Ampere Analysis reveals Netflix’s adoption of a quick-release or ‘surprise drop’ marketing strategy for blockbuster unscripted A-list comedies such as Amy Schumer and Trevor Noah’s stand-up shows, and concerts such as Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ Tour. Nineteen per cent of Netflix