On November 9th and 10th, millions of eSports fans will be focused on ESL’s Intel Extreme Masters in Beijing, China where 8 of the world’s best CS:GO teams will battle for big prizes and glory. Supersphere, the immersive content company, has been selected as the production partner for Oculus and ESL to bring eSports broadcast […]
Amazon Prime Video has announced that one of the most talked, written and tweeted about TV formats in recent times – Love Island – is coming to France, exclusively for Prime members. Based on a format owned by ITV Studios and Motion Content Group, Love Island, a new and unscripted French Amazon Original series, is […]
BritBox, the SVoD service created by UK PSBs the BBC and ITV, has opened for business, bringing what it describes as the greatest collection of British boxsets with the finest homegrown talent to viewers for £5.99 (€6.95) a month in HD and across multiple devices. BritBox has signed a partnership deal with fellow PSB Channel […]
The TV and film production sector is experiencing a period of phenomenal growth, driven by demand for British content from Netflix and Amazon Prime, according to data from Barclays Business Banking. The number of loans taken by SMEs to fund new TV series such as Top Boy, Sex Education and The Crown has increased by […]
Sky Q is bringing the best music apps together with the launch of the new XITE app – an interactive music video platform where users can discover, curate and play music videos, all in one place. With the XITE music video app, music fans can experience a personalised video experience on the big screen. Customers […]
EspañaTV, the Spanish-language channel bouquet launched by AMC Networks International Southern Europe and ATRESMEDIA Internacional, is now available for the first time in France on IPTV platforms SFR and Free, two of the country’s major pay-TV operators. The seven-channel pack is a varied offering of Spanish-language television content marketed outside of Spain, with channels specialised […]
Samsung has confirmed that Netflix will no longer be supported on some of its older smart TV models. From December 1st, the Netflix app will no longer work on some 2010 and 2011 models. Samsung wrote on its support page: “Due to technical limitations, Netflix will no longer be supported on 2010 and 2011 TVs […]
To mark the launch of season two of Sky original drama Britannia, fans can now get closer to the show’s psychedelic world with the launch of Britannia VR: Out of Your Mind, Sky VR Studio’s new experience – which is available on SteamVR and coming soon to the Oculus store. Britannia VR: Out of Your […]
The release of September’s US Comscore All Devices Viewership report has SendtoNews (STN) reaching new record highs in both Unique Viewers and Video Views. STN publishers delivered content to over 37,201,000 unique viewers totaling 529,263,000 video views across the United States for September of 2019. STN saw incredible year-over year growth, increasing by 135 per […]
Analyst firm TDG has been actively reporting on the original content arms race amongst Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video (the ‘Big-3’) for several years, and its research has highlighted the increased role it is playing for both customer acquisition and retention. With major services such as Apple TV+, Disney+, and HBO Max hitting the […]