According to Netflix, it may have taken Walter White nearly an entire season to become Heisenberg and Frank Underwood 13 episodes to become VP, but it turns out fans committed to these series long before those plot twists unfolded. Netflix analysed its global streaming data across the inaugural seasons of some of today’s most popular […]
Premium content services provider Vubiquity and BBC Worldwide have signed a deal to deliver original television content to South African video-on-demand (VoD) service MTN FrontRow. The new shows include the BBC’s BAFTA award-winning Sherlock series and David Attenborough’s Planet Earth. MTN FrontRow was the first OTT VoD service to be launched by a South African-based […]
BBC Director General Tony Hall’s told the Royal Television Society Convention: “Over the next few years, we intend to work with global partners to grow Worldwide further, taking advantage of the demand for British programming and new digital opportunities…Next year, we’re launching a new OTT video service in America offering BBC fans programmes they wouldn’t […]
The Italian Football League (Lega Calcio) has launched a new online streaming service that will air three football matches per week plus additional pre- and post-match content. Lega TV will kick-off on September 19th, with the Udinese vs Empoli match, with live coverage of two more games on Sunday (Chievo Verona-Inter and Genoa-Juventus). The service […]
Latin America’s VoD OTT services generated $509.2 million (€445m) in 2014, according to data published today by Dataxis. By 2018 this figure will grow by 262 per cent reaching $1.84 billion. The information included in Dataxis’ new report “OTT in Latin America” includes combined VoD OTT services’ revenues – in its different variants (by subscription, […]
Following its recent relaunch, legal online entertainment resource FindAnyFilm.com has welcomed HMV as the latest retailer to join the platform. According to Sylvia Wan, Digital Communications Manager, Industry Trust, FindAnyFilm remains the call to action on all of its anti-piracy consumer education activity, which means that ensuring the service is as comprehensive and representative as […]
Mediapro-owned OTT platform TotalChannel failed to distribute the signal of beIN Sports to all 120,000 users during the transmissions of the Champions League on September 15th leaving around 7,000 subs with no access to the service. According to the company, the huge demand to watch the matches led the service to saturation and the collapse […]
In a deal that enables it to expand its digital distribution capabilities, Vubiquity, a global provider of premium content services, is to acquire Digital End-To-End (DETE), a managed content technology service, from Warner Bros. Technical Operations. Vubiquity will acquire DETE to service all of its clients, made up of the world’s leading video content and […]
A study released by IHS and SpotX has found that revenue across Europe from online video jumped from €22 million in 2012 to €375 million in 2015. IHS forecasts that €2 billion, which is over half of all online video advertising revenue, will be generated programmatically by 2020. Programmatic video is the automation of ads […]
Last week, Apple announced the release of a new-and-improved Apple TV device – a move which will make the TV streaming stick/device space even more competitive, especially with names like Periscope reported to be building dedicated apps. According to a GWI Device report, currently about 15 per cent of Internet users who have a streaming […]