A Horowitz Research study reveals 88 per cent of urban TV content viewers in the US have the ability to stream video content to a computer, mobile device, or directly to a TV. The study also reveals that multicultural viewers – traditionally pay-TV’s most valuable consumers—are more likely to have made OTT an integral part […]
Subscribers of Internet entertainment service Hulu will soon have the ability to add the Showtime service to their Hulu subscription and stream on a wide range of the most popular Internet-connected streaming devices. Starting in early July, Showtime will become the first premium service to be offered to Hulu’s nearly nine million subscribers nationwide. Hulu […]
Within two months of its local launch, over a million Australians across 400,000 households had signed up to Netflix, the latest Streaming Video On Demand (SVoD) data from Roy Morgan Research shows. But will the numbers flatten or decline as the introductory free trials end—or really rocket up now the latest season of Game of […]
Investment boutique Oppenheimer has suggested that Netflix’s “aggressive” expansion plans will see 32 per cent of the world’s broadband population using the service by 2020. Jason Helfstein, Oppenheimer’s analyst in charge of Netflix, raised his
OTT TV and video revenues in Latin America [for 13 countries] will reach $2.91 billion in 2020; up from only $37 million in 2010 and the $1.13 billion expected in 2015, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. From the $2.126 billion in revenues to be added between 2014 and 2020, Brazil will […]
An in-depth survey of 21 convergent, mobile and cable operators exploring operators’ strategies for deploying Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs) has found that nearly half of respondents identified supporting partnerships with over-the-top (OTT) providers and better monetisation of subscriber data as very important drivers behind their service delivery platform (SDP) deployments. “Operators continue to deploy long-standing […]
Telecoms provider Lebara, best known for calling plans to enable migrant communities to connect, has launched Lebara Play, which aims to bridge the content gap by providing a new entertainment service for migrants. The service claims to be the only multi-ethnic entertainment service bringing together free and premium, fully-licensed content in 13 languages in one […]
According to research from TDG, Latin America is poised to become a significant market for OTT video, with use especially prominent among younger adults. By 2025, TDG forecasts that consumers between the ages of 18 and 34 will account for 65 per cent of all OTT viewing. “Much is said about the rise of US […]
Digitalsmiths, a TiVo company, has released its Q1 2015 Video Trends Report covering key topics across pay-TV, VoD, PPV, OTT, TV Everywhere, connected devices, and content discovery. Based on an analysis of survey results from over
Netflix has rolled out its first major website update in four years, optimising the streaming service for a mouse, trackpad, or touch screen. The update will make it “faster and easier to discover something great to watch”, according to Netflix Product Innovation Director Cameron Johnson. “We’ve created a richer, more visual experience, and a website […]