Spain’s largest telco operator, Movistar, is finalising an agreement with Disney to integrate Disney+ into its offer when the streaming service goes live in the country on March 24th. Movistar has informed the regulatory body CNMC about the integration negotiations with the service following the same strategy as it did with Netflix. Other operators in […]
Amazon has announced three new Italian Amazon Original shows at its Prime Video Presents Italy showcase event, hosted at Hotel de la Ville in Rome by Head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke, Head of International Originals, James Farrell, Director of European Amazon Originals Georgia Brown and Head of Unscripted Originals series in Italy, Nicole Morganti. […]
Multiplay telco Swisscom says it is continuing to break down the barriers between television and streaming with the introduction, from January 27th, of ‘Swisscom TV X’, which it claims will make the best Swisscom TV and the most popular streaming service Netflix available at a discounted price, with hundreds of channels, 1,200 hours of recording, […]
Netflix added 8.76 million paid global subscribers in the three months to December 31st 2019 – its first quarter up against the Disney+ streaming service. Net income rose to $587 million (€529.2m) in Q4 from $134 million a year earlier, while total revenue rose to $5.5 billion from $4.2 billion year on year. The streaming […]
Comments from media analysts at investment bank Exane/BNPP suggest that Q4 results from Netflix were very much in line with expectations, and certainly few could complain at paid subscriptions growing 21 per cent year on year. Globally the streaming service beat net paid additions expectations by adding of 8.8 million in the quarter-year, vs consensus […]
In 2019, US consumers watched about 20 minutes more streamed TV content per week on Netflix than they did in 2018. Weekly time spent watching the top two SVoD services (Netflix and Hulu) rose 7 per cent, growing from 3 hours 45 minutes in 2018 to 4 hours 6 minutes in 2019, according to The […]
Tubi, the ad-supported VoD service, has announced it will expand its service into Mexico later this year in collaboration with TV Azteca, one of the two largest producers of Spanish-language television programming in the world. As part of the deal, TV Azteca will offer advertising sales for Tubi in Mexico and promote the service to […]
Netflix and The Pokémon Company International have announced that the newest animated movie based on the globally popular Pokémon franchise will exclusively premiere on Netflix around the world (outside of Japan and Korea). The movie will go live on February 27th – also known as Pokémon Day to fans of the franchise, as on that […]
Disney has brought forward the launch date of its Disney+ SVoD service in the UK and the rest of Western Europe by a week. The D2C service will now roll out on March 24th with pricing confirmed at £5.99/€6.99 per month, or £59.99/€69.99 for an annual subscription. A basic Netflix subscription in the UK also […]
Multichannel programmer UKTV has revealed that its network grew by 4 per cent in 2019, with its flagship comedy channel, Dave, ranked number one non-PSB channel for 16-34s. Bumper viewing over the festive period contributed to driving Share of Commercial Impacts (SoCI) to 7.76 per cent for 2019, versus 7.48 per cent for 2018. Following […]