The management team for BritBox, the SVoD service created by UK PSBs the BBC and ITV, has been announced in the run-up to the service’s planned launch in the fourth quarter of 2019. As previously announced, the BritBox management team is led by Reemah Sakaan who has expanded her BritBox US and CA role to […]
Research from analyst firm Parks Associates finds that the percentage of households with multiple OTT subscriptions has increased by 130 per cent since 2014. In 2019, 46 per cent of US broadband households subscribe to two or more OTT services. Parks’ study, Partnering, Aggregation, and Bundling in Video Services, reports that only 33 per cent […]
Sesame Workshop, the non-profit media and educational organisation, has agreed to deal to bring four new series and five new seasons of Sesame Street, annual specials, as well as its historic 50-year library, to HBO Max – the new SVoD service scheduled to launch in spring 2020. Beginning with season 51, Sesame Street will premiere […]
Findings from research firm Roy Morgan shows that Google Chromecast is Australia’s most popular digital television service, with 12.1 per cent owning the service. Uptake has more than doubled over the past three years. The proportion of Australians who own digital television services has shown significant growth across all brands in the past three years. […]
Looper Insights, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) VoD optimisation firm for film and television, has entered into an annual deal with A+E Networks, under which Looper will provide TVoD/EST management and optimisation services to the global media and entertainment company. Under the deal, A+E Networks is using Looper Insights’ tools to track, manage and optimise the sale […]
Netflix has ordered Human Resources, a new workplace comedy set in the world of the monsters from its Emmy nominated animated series Big Mouth. Big Mouth creators Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett signed an overall deal with Netflix back in June under their newly formed animation production company, Brutus Pink. In […]
Viewing content on-the-go via a portable device is not seeing any noticeable increase in the UK. Sam Tuck, Associate Director at market research institute GfK, said the firm fully expected to see an increase in the uptake – but in recent years it’s simply not happened. Speaking at the Brand Licensing Europe event in London, […]
Netflix received a €57,000 tax rebate from the UK government in 2018, despite making an estimated £700 million from UK subscribers. A report in The Guardian states Netflix’s UK financial filing shows the company reported revenues of €48 million last year, and pre-tax profits of €2.3 million, because the hundreds of millions of pounds it […]
Global analyst firm CCS Insight has revealed its predictions for 2020 and beyond. Covering topics from the future of 5G, through the rise of bias testing in AI and the digitising of sports, the CCS Insight Predictions seek to guide and influence the thinking of top and emerging technology companies around the world. The predictions […]
According to a study from research firm Médiamétrie, 17.3 million French viewers have requested at least one SVoD product in the last twelve months, three million more than last year. Netflix tops the most-watched SVoD services, counting four in users five over the last twelve months. Series are the most watched content on the platform […]