Peter Docherty, Founder and CTO at ThinkAnalytics, has shared his industry predictions for 2021. He comments: “Super-aggregation and universal search have featured in my predictions for the last three years and appear again this year – with a twist. Today a growing number of operators are reinventing themselves as content aggregators offering, say, Amazon Prime […]
Research from Parks Associates finds 47 per cent of US broadband households subscribe to Amazon Prime Video, second only to Netflix among subscription-based OTT video services in the US. “The surge in online
This year there have been 5.3 billion requests to stream content on the BBC iPlayer service across January to November, 33 per cent ahead of the same period last year, and already 850 million requests higher than the whole of 2019. Killing Eve has once again been a huge hit, with nearly 40 million requests […]
Director Christopher Nolan has criticised Warner Bros after the Hollywood studio revealed plans to release 17 movies onto US streaming service HBO Max next year, a platform he referred to as ” the worst streaming service”. The slate of films – including tentpole titles such as Matrix 4, Godzilla vs Kong and Dune – will […]
ViacomCBS Networks International has confirmed the official launch of Pluto TV, its AVoD service, in Brazil. Pluto TV Brazil offers audiences a diverse line-up of premium, curated linear channels and content from major media partners worldwide. Users in Brazil can now access Pluto TV via the pluto.tv website, by downloading the app on iOS and […]
Media Partners Asia has published its first report on the Middle East region, entitled GCC Video & Broadband Distribution 2020. The report provides analysis of the current state and future outlook for telecoms, online video & pay-TV industries across the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia […]
Apple TV+ has ordered a new six-part documentary series from Box to Box Films and the World Surf League (WSL) that will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the aspirations, failures and accomplishments of the world’s best surfers as they battle for the WSL Title and struggle to remain on the elite WSL Championship Tour (CT). […]
Warner Bros Pictures Group has announced that it is “committed to releasing its 2021 film slate via a unique, consumer-focused distribution model” in which the studio will continue to exhibit its movies theatrically worldwide, while adding an exclusive one month access period on the HBO Max streaming platform in the US concurrent with the film’s […]
Increases in both co-commissions between traditional broadcasters and SVoDs, and in sole commissions, drove investment in British TV drama to a record £2.6 billion (€2.88bn) in 2019, according to a new report commissioned by COBA, the industry association for commercial broadcasters and on-demand services. Fuelling the growth, co-commissions surged by 17 per cent, from 30 […]
Since the onset of the pandemic, 71 per cent of US consumers say they have increased their use of paid streaming services. The findings come from a new TransUnion survey administered in November – a follow up to a May survey which found 56 per cent of consumers had increased their usage since the pandemic began in […]