AVoD service Pluto TV is launching a Hell’s Kitchen channel to binge watch the reality TV competition series fronted by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey. The 24/7 channel will go live on April 1st with a gradually extending programme to eventually cover over 16 seasons of the show, in which Michelin-star chef Ramsay lets aspiring chefs […]
Despite the negative impact from the coronavirus and the Chinese economic downturn, Asia Pacific will have 417 million SVoD subscriptions by 2025, up from 269 million in 2019. China will have 269 million SVoD subscriptions in 2025 – or 65 per cent of the region’s total. India will supply a further 45 million – more […]
MGM, the famed Hollywood studio, has launched a new SVoD service in South Africa with mobile operator Vodacom. The platform, simply branded ‘MGM’, will be part of Vodacom’s Video Play Premium service and will also be available as a standalone service priced at R59 (€3) a month. Weekly (R25) and daily (R10) subscriptions are also […]
The third season of Killing Eve will be available to stream in the UK exclusively on BBC iPlayer from April 13th – the day after it launches on BBC America. Episodes will drop weekly and be available to stream every Monday from 6am. Killing Eve will also air weekly on BBC One on starting April […]
Gen Z is demonstrating the largest increase in media consumption during the Coronavirus outbreak, according to research by GlobalWebIndex across 13 markets. For example, Gen Z audiences are twice as likely as Gen X and seven times more likely than Baby Boomers to be using audio streaming services like Spotify more. Well over half (58 […]
Strategy Analytics has published its latest forecast for SVoD services. The forecast took account of the expected impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, and although the longer term impact clearly remains uncertain, early evidence suggests that a boost to SVoD usage globally can be expected. As a result the forecast for global subscriptions was increased by […]
The Disney+ SVoD platform attracted 5 million downloads in one day when it launched on March 24th in seven new European markets – Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the UK – according to estimates from app insights specialist App Annie. With many Europeans on lockdown at home, many with children looking to be […]
Channel 5 is ramping up the amount of free kids’ content available on its multiplatform pre-school brand Milkshake!, in a bid to help keep kids occupied at home. Across the week, 250 additional episodes of Milkshake! content will be uploaded onto Channel 5’s VoD service My5, to sit alongside the 500 episodes of Milkshake! content […]
Responding to the increased viewing demand brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, Comcast has made the on demand catalogues from a series of premium networks and subscription video on demand (SVoD) services available for its Xfinity X1 and Flex customers to enjoy starting with SHOWTIME, EPIX, CuriosityStream, HISTORY Vault, Grokker Yoga Fitness & Wellbeing, The […]
Netflix has fixed a temporary outage that affected some users in the US and Europe during the evening of March 25th, according to the SVoD service. The website refused to load when users navigated to the site. Problems were also reported by those using the app, although some who were unable to access the website […]