ole, the independent rights management company, is expanding its involvement in the OTT digital video market through a new deal with Cineflix Media. By virtue of the agreement, ole becomes Cineflix Media’s financial partner in its emerging OTT distribution business. ole will also handle the administration and channel management of all Cineflix content on digital […]
Internet film and TV subscription service Netflix is launching in Cuba, taking advantage of improved Internet access and the wider availability of credit and debit cards. People in Cuba with Internet connections and access to international payment methods are now able to subscribe to Netflix and instantly watch a curated selection of popular movies and […]
Dish Network’s online television service, Sling TV, has debuted in the US as a way to entice consumers who have cancelled their cable or satellite TV service or never had one. Unlike online apps available through the likes of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, Sling TV doesn’t require a satellite service with Dish or any […]
Just one week after its establishment, Asia’s video-on-demand service HOOQ, is to launch in the Philippines from late February in partnership with Globe Telecom. HOOQ, a start-up joint venture between Singtel, Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros. Entertainment, will enable customers of Globe Telecom to enjoy unlimited online streaming access and an offline viewing option […]
Japan International Broadcasting, the distribution arm of NHK, and live streaming and Catchup TV solutions provider Simplestream are partnering NHK WORLD TV to live TV streaming service TVPlayer. NHK WORLD TV is a stand-alone, 24-hour, English-language television news and lifestyle network produced by NHK, Japan’s sole public, independent broadcaster. The Japanese channel is currently available […]
Cinedigm and TV4 Entertainment have announced a partnership to launch new OTT digital networks together. The partnership will mine Cinedigm’s vast film and TV episode library to program at least one co-owned, on-demand, online channel that will be distributed through TV4 Entertainment’s premium online video distribution platform, covering 100 million US households and over 300 […]
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Consumers’ Association of Canada (CAC, together PIAC-CAC) have filed two applications with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (the CRTC), challenging the tied selling of two online streaming services linked to the consumption of other telecommunications or broadcasting services. In one application, PIAC-CAC have challenged whether Rogers […]
Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, famed for movie adaptations such as The Great Gatsby and Romeo + Juliet, is heading to Netflix with a new musical drama. The show, entitled The Get Down, is set in New York City in the 1970s and centres on a group of teenagers from the South Bronx. Luhrmann will direct […]
A study designed to help marketers engage the right generation on the right screen has found marked differences across generations in respect of how generations use digital devices to perform daily activities, to consume content, and to shop online. The study, Getting Audiences Right, from
Netflix is facing two very serious challenges to its current hegemony over OTT streaming, and its business may never be the same, according to Alan Wolk, contributing analyst at TDG Research. Wolk suggests that