Cinedigm and TV4 Entertainment have announced a partnership to launch new OTT digital networks together. The partnership will mine Cinedigm’s vast film and TV episode library to program at least one co-owned, on-demand, online channel that will be distributed through TV4 Entertainment’s premium online video distribution platform, covering 100 million US households and over 300 […]
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Consumers’ Association of Canada (CAC, together PIAC-CAC) have filed two applications with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (the CRTC), challenging the tied selling of two online streaming services linked to the consumption of other telecommunications or broadcasting services. In one application, PIAC-CAC have challenged whether Rogers […]
Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, famed for movie adaptations such as The Great Gatsby and Romeo + Juliet, is heading to Netflix with a new musical drama. The show, entitled The Get Down, is set in New York City in the 1970s and centres on a group of teenagers from the South Bronx. Luhrmann will direct […]
A study designed to help marketers engage the right generation on the right screen has found marked differences across generations in respect of how generations use digital devices to perform daily activities, to consume content, and to shop online. The study, Getting Audiences Right, from
Netflix is facing two very serious challenges to its current hegemony over OTT streaming, and its business may never be the same, according to Alan Wolk, contributing analyst at TDG Research. Wolk suggests that
As more traditional content providers move toward offering stand-alone OTT subscription video on demand (SVoD) services, many industry pundits are predicting the demise of traditional television viewership and multichannel services, declaring that the era of a la carte is finally here. New data from Horowitz Research, however, indicates that these changes in the industry represent […]
The Streaming Video Alliance (SVA), a newly formed industry forum comprised of leading companies from the online video ecosystem has held its first session, which included confirmation of the Board of Directors, approval of SVA goals for 2015 and commissioning of SVA working groups. The SVA was established to build an open architecture, standards and […]
Google’s Chromecast is said to have sold over ten million units globally. While Google’s US headquarters hasn’t released Chromecast sales figures, Google Korea has told the Korea Times the company sold about ten million of the streaming media TV HDMI adapters in 2014, and it now supports more than 350 apps and services. “According to […]
Research from Enders Analysis on the multichannel TV squeeze found that total daily average viewing time declined by a steep 5 per cent year-on-year in 2014. The younger demographic of 4-15 year olds as well as the content types catering to this audience (Children and Music) saw the strongest decrease with double digit declines. Increasing […]
Netflix will expand into Japan this autumn, as it moves to complete its global rollout by the end of 2016. “With its rich culture and celebrated creative traditions, Japan is a critical component of our plan to connect people around the world to stories they love,” said Reed Hastings, chief executive officer at Netflix. “As […]