The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) held its first country focused seminar of the year last week with a deep dive into the media and video industry of Thailand and the pursuit of growth in the market across both traditional and online platforms. Thailand’s media industry is undergoing seismic transformation driven by technological and commercial […]
HJ Holdings, which operates Hulu in Japan, has added TV5MONDE Pacifique to Hulu’s live TV service. The general entertainment channel brings a variety of French programmes to Hulu’s lineup, including dramas, documentaries, lifestyle shows, kids programmes and live sports events. The launch on Hulu Japan coincides with the debut of the 2020/21 season of French […]
Watch4, the ad-supported TV on demand platform featuring movies, TV series, documentaries, news and sports available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and its sister UK service W4free, have launched in their respective territories on the XUMO-Powered service LG Channels, an ad-supported streaming TV service. The launches follow an aggressive content acquisitions strategy that has added […]
ITV and BBC Studios (BBCS) are set to invest more than A$35 million (€21.2m) into BritBox’s Australian operation, which is scheduled to launch this autumn. BBCS and ITV will both invest A$17.7m ($12.7m) into the SVoD platform over the next three years. The service, which launched in the US in 2017, and has since also […]
BritBox UK has announced that a collection of 25 titles, primarily drawn from the Film4 library will be available on the service from September 17th. A further 25 titles will be added before the end of the year. FIlm 4 says the selection has been curated to reflect the modern and contemporary British cinema synonymous […]
Netflix has removed a promotional poster which showed young girls posing in inappropriate outfits in a new movie called Cuties. The poster for the French drama sparked widespread disapproval and a petition for Netflix to drop it, which attracted some 25,000 signatures. The award-winning drama follows an 11-year-old who joins a dance group. Its maker […]
According to a report from cloud video platform Grabyo, UK video customers have increased monthly spending on online streaming services by over £100 million, which equates to an uplift of over 25 per cent, since lockdown began in March in the UK. Grabyo’s UK At Home Video Trends 2020 report surveyed over 2,000 UK consumers […]
The Disney+ SVoD service will roll out in Latin America and Brazil this November. Disney sent out a seemingly accidental tweet revealing November 17th as the official launch date in the region. In a tweet labelled ‘DO NOT POST’, the official Disney+ Latin America Twitter account published an internal memo advising staff to, when the […]
Pluto TV, the AVoD service globally, has revealed it will lanuch in Brazil in December, with the launch of 24 new curated streaming channels. Pluto TV will be available on all mobile, web and connected TV streaming devices. “Following the launch of Pluto TV in Latin America earlier this year, the service has quickly attracted […]
The ITV Hub has unveiled EarlyBe, an exclusive first chance to watch new episodes of ITVBe’s most popular reality shows. Starting on September 3rd, the Hub will debut the first episode from the new series of Sam & Billie: The Mummy Diaries on the platform the morning before broadcasting on ITVBe. The ITV Hub will […]