Netflix launched around nine times as much original programming as its main streaming rival Amazon in 2019, reflecting the divergent business models of the two companies. Last year, Netflix released 2,701 hours’ worth of original programming, compared to just 314 hours for Amazon Prime Video, according to the Omdia Original Online Production Report – 2020. […]
In response to limitations imposed as a result of Covid-19, NBCUniversal has confirmed that Universal Pictures will make its movies available in the home on the same day as their global theatrical releases. Beginning with DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls World Tour (opening April 10th in the US) the company will also make movies that are currently […]
Wrestlemania, WWE’s annual flagship PPV event, will no longer take place in front of a live audience, but it will go ahead as a live, streamed production via the WWE Network – the company’s SVoD platform – and through other PPV providers. Wrestlemania 36 was scheduled to to take place in front of some 70,000 […]
UEFA has postponed Euro 2020 until the summer of 2021. The move intends to allow European leagues more time to complete their seasons amid the coronavirus outbreak. The tournament will be played between June 11th and July 11th 2021. The decision comes after UEFA held conference calls with its 55 member associations, the board of […]
Digi-Capital’s AR/VR Analytics Platform tracked $4.1 billion AR/VR investment in 2019, the third-highest virtual reality investment and augmented reality investment year on record after 2017 and 2018. However, investment dropped significantly in Q4 2019 compared to the
Fox News Digital finished the month of February number one in the US news competitive set in multiplatform total minutes, surpassing CNN.com for the seventeenth consecutive month, according to its analysis of Comscore findings. Totaling 4 billion total multiplatform minutes, Fox News Digital Network delivered a 9 per cent increase from February 2019 and topped […]
Organisers of the Media Production & Technology Show, scheduled to take place May 13/14th 2020 at London’s Olympia, have decided to postpone the event. In a statement, they say: “We have been carefully monitoring the COVID-19 situation in the UK and abroad, with the situation growing increasingly concerning, it is with a heavy heart, we […]
In line with the partnership between TRT World and Medianet, TRT World international English language news and documentary channel will be available in majority of households and establishments in Maldives through the largest independent cable television provider of Maldives, Medianet. The successful alliance between TRT World and Medianet enables TRT World Live Stream, a channel […]
UK MPs are calling on the government to include the Six Nations rugby tournament as a Category A listed sporting event to ensure free-to-air coverage. The formal request follows a failure by the Six Nations Council to give a clear answer to questions from the DCMS Committee about whether it had held discussions with the […]
The worlds of tokusatsu – the Japanese entertainment genre known for its unique special effects and epic battles – will launch on Pluto TV in the US on March 17th, when Shout! Factory TV introduces the new 24/7 linear streaming channel TokuSHOUTsu. Completely free to Pluto TV’s 22+ million monthly active users in the US, […]