As well as competing with Netflix and others in the SVoD entertainment streaming market, Amazon is now taking on YouTube with the announcement of an enhancement to Amazon Video – Amazon Video Direct (AVD) – a new self-service programme for creators and storytellers to make their video content available to Amazon customers, including tens of […]
Netflix has released April data for its ISP Speed Index, a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime-time Netflix streaming experience. This month, Netflix included nine countries in Asia to the index as the company start adding countries where we launched service earlier this year. Those countries include: Hong Kong, […]
Netflix is entering the reality TV genre for the first time with a global series featuring and produced by Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone. The 10-episode event series will feature 108 athletes from 6 different countries take their shot at running one of the most physically demanding obstacle courses ever devised. All episodes will be made […]
The French VoD market rose 19.8 per cent in 2015, recording revenue of €317.6 million, with pay-per-view representing 74 per cent of all sales (€235 million) according to figures released by audiovisual funding organisation CNC and based on research from NPA-GfK. The share of SVoD grew,
BBC is to launch a discovery app, BBC+, as part of its content personalisation plans. In a progress report a year after director general Tony Hall set out his vision for a more personal BBC, the corporation said that the new BBC+ mobile app will help viewers to discover collections of content from across the […]
The IPTV subscriber growth rate has recovered in Q4 2015 compared to Q3 2015 and was the highest in the last eight quarters to December 31st 2015, according to a report from Point Topic. The net additions of 6 million are
A study published by French anti-piracy body l’Association de Lutte contre la Piraterie Audiovisuelle (ALPA) looking at the illegal consumption of films and TV programmes suggests that one in three French Internet users visit sites dedicated to audiovisual piracy. The study, carried out in collaboration with research firm Médiametrie and
Netflix uses psychological experiments to draw viewers into its shows, the TV streaming company has confirmed. As viewers choose what show to watch on the service they are being used as test subjects to help Netflix understand which images make viewers pick a show and actually watch it. Netflix uses this data to get more people to watch its […]
YouTube is working on a paid subscription service, tentatively branded ‘Unplugged’, that would offer US customers a bundle of cable TV channels streamed over the Internet, according to a Bloomberg report. The service could debut as soon as next year. Google-owned YouTube has discussed these plans with most major US media companies, including Comcast, NBCUniversal, […]
21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch has suggested that in the long term, the company’s entertainment will be consumed over IP streaming networks, with Fox positioning itself for success in an environment where the customer has a wider choice of how and where to consume the content, and there is no distinction between linear and […]