YouTube has launched its spin-off gaming platform in the UK and the US. Branded “YouTube Gaming”, the dedicated app and website focuses exclusively on gaming content, with a greater emphasis on live steams. Gaming videos are already a major draw for YouTube, wiith site visitors spending billions of hours watching them every month. YouTube’s most-followed […]
Streaming of TV shows is replacing traditional summer activities such as reading, cinema trips, board games and dozing in the sun according to a study from Miner & Co. Studio. Nearly 9 in 10 revealed to Miner & Co they are binge-watching and/or plan to binge-watch the shows they’re streaming this summer – and that […]
Netflix is adding a number of exclusive movies and TV series aimed at teenagers and “tweens” to its streaming service as part of a strategy to position itself as a digital entertainment hub for the post-millennial generation. Netflix has licensed two films from YouTube personalities, including Smosh: The Movie from the creators of the YouTube […]
Amazon has revealed that Prime members in the UK can instantly watch the debut season of the Amazon Original Series, Mozart in the Jungle and the pilot of soon-to-launch Red Oaks in high dynamic range (HDR) at no additional cost to their membership, marking the first video service to offer HDR. The complete first season […]
SoftBank Corp, Japan’s leading mobile provider is partnering with Netflix for the Internet TV network’s launch in the country on September 2nd. SoftBank will exclusively offer a fully integrated Netflix experience, including billing. A 4K UHD package is also to be offered. Netflix also announced monthly pricing for the Japanese market as follows: Basic Plan […]
Australian TV and movie streaming service Quickflix is not going ahead with the potential acquisition of a Shanghai-based film and television company. In a notice to the Australian Securities Exchange, it said that based on due diligence of the Shanghai-based company and advice received in relation to Chinese regulations and restrictions, it had decided that […]
With News Corp, Telstra and Channel Seven recently agreeing to pay a share of over A$2.5 billion (€1.58bn) for six years of AFL broadcast rights from 2017, Roy Morgan Research has taken a detailed look at the size and fragmentation of viewership across Free-to-Air, Pay TV, and digital streaming platforms. Roy Morgan Single Source research […]
Findings from Nielsen’s Home Entertainment Consumer Trends report suggest that the type of content US video consumers watch and what content they pay for has shifted over the past few years and their path isn’t always towards digital. In the changing home entertainment landscape, one thing is constant:
In perhaps an indication of North American pay-TV operators seeing a silver lining in the cloud that is the decline of their current subscriber numbers, findings from Strategy Analytics suggest the
UK digital communications company EE has unveiled a host of updated features for EE TV set to launch on the 25th August for new and existing customers. Focused on personalisation and social sharing, the new additions have been developed with mobile front of mind. Building on EE TV’s original features, the latest software update allows […]