Parks Associates consumer research featured in its OTT Video Market Tracker reveals that in Q3 2021, 27 per cent of US broadband subscribers reported the Samsung Tizen Smart TV is their primary device for consuming video content. The firm’s most recent update recaps top industry and consumer trends of Q4 2021 and highlights anticipated market […]
Limited series Stay Close has climbed to the #1 spot on the Netflix Top 10 English TV list with 53.72 million hours viewed in the week commencing January 10th. The Harlan Coben thriller series, based on his novel of the same name, has continued to climb the list week after week and remains in the […]
Rogue Games has launched its open-world, card adventure game, Arcanium: Rise of Akhan on Netflix. The single-player title blends popular roguelike and deckbuilding genres into one package. Players will trek across a fully 3D procedural map where they make strategic choices that alter the experience in various ways. “We’re thrilled to bring this best-in-class open-world […]
Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings TV series officially has a name: The Rings of Power. The significance behind the subtitle will not be lost on J.R.R. Tolkien fans, foreshadowing an epic story that welds the major events of Tolkien’s Second Age together: the forging of the iconic rings. The multi-season drama – The […]
The amount of Portuguese people subscribing to video SVoD such as Netflix or Amazon Prime Video has more than doubled during the pandemic. As a result, Portugal was the fourth EU member with the highest growth of subscription-based streaming services, according to a report on OTT services by the country’s National Communications Authority (Anacom). The […]
A report by the European Audiovisual Observatory aims to shed light on the structure of the AV industry in Europe in terms of revenues as well as other performance indicators specific to key audiovisual market segments. The analysis provides snapshots of the top AV players and explores concentration, statute, and origin of ownership by revenues, […]
While Netflix remains the undisputed leading streaming platform, with a 21 per cent share of the US SVoD market in 2021, GlobalData believes that the service is showing signs of slowing. With more and more competitors arriving, the data and analytics company says streaming platforms will not only have to provide evocative content but will […]
Pay-TV revenues for 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region will fall by 38 per cent between peak year 2016 ($3.84 billion [€3.35bn]) and 2027 ($2.39 billion), according to the Middle East and North Africa Pay TV Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. “Pay-TV has never had an easy ride […]
Netflix has announced its first price increases since 2020, which go into effect immediately for new subscribers in the US, and will be rolled out gradually for existing customers. The new price plans are: A basic plan (one screen at a time; no HD) is rising to $9.99 per month (from $8.99). A standard plan […]
OTT services will aim to grow their subscriber bases in 2022 by focusing on markets beyond North America and Western Europe and diversifying their content offering, according to industry experts at Ampere Analysis. After the pandemic disrupted filming schedules and with the fierce competition between the SVoD platforms, a large quantity of new high-quality Scripted […]