Newstag, a crowd-curated video news service from Stockholm, has announced the appointment of Mat Ekholms as CTO in a move to support the company as it develops its innovative approach to news sharing through social media. Video expert Mats Ekholm brings over two decades of experience in the news, media and entertainment industries with an […]
Italian VOD platform Chili TV is planning to expand to the UK, Germany, Austria and Poland by Christmas. According to Chili TV founder and president Stefano Parisi, the UK and Germany have excellent growth rates for the consumption of non-linear content, while in the other European countries the launch is the result of requests by […]
Australian media group Village Roadshow is to slash the prices of some titles in its digital rental and sales businesses by up to 20 per cent as it steps up its efforts to curb Internet piracy. It hopes the initiative will encourage people to pay for content. Sylvester Stallone blockbusterThe Expendables 3, which was downloaded […]
European entertainment network RTL Group is to acquire a controlling stake in StyleHaul – the leading multi-channel network on YouTube for fashion, beauty and lifestyle – for $107 million (€85m), valuing the company at $151.4 million. In addition, the parties have agreed to earn-out mechanisms that might increase the initial consideration, subject to the future […]
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has confirmed that the WWE Network will be available in the UK from November 3rd. The SVoD service, which is already available in the US, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Spain among others, will be available for free throughout November to all new subscribers. Oddly, WWE has yet to announce […]
Polish commercial, free-to-air television network TVN and T-Mobile Polska, one of the Polish market’s leading telcos, have entered into a strategic partnership and will jointly launch in the near future the new Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) service T-Mobile Zone under the Player brand for all existing and new T-Mobile residential customers. T-Mobile Zone within […]
Streaming media platform Roku has confirmed that Google Play Movies & TV has been added to its Channel Store in the US, UK, Ireland and Canada. With the addition of Google Play Movies & TV, users now have more options than ever to watch the entertainment they love on their Roku player, says the company. […]
Todd Juenger of Sanford C. Bernstein, says the big third quarter drop in ratings for ad-supported TV in the US is largely the fault of subscription video on demand services like Netflix and Amazon and that the erosion is likely to increase. Using data from both Nielsen and Rentrak,
Canadian multimedia group Bell Media has revealed plans to launch a new video streaming service devoted exclusively to the best content on television. The on-demand subscription service, currently code-named ‘Project Latte’, will feature thousands of hours of content representing TV’s top premium brands including HBO. With content from all key Hollywood major and independent studios, […]
Rupert Murdoch has called for a cooperative media response to challenger streaming services Amazon and Netflix. The media industry needs its own competitor to these giants, he told a WSJ technology conference. “As an industry, we need a competitor – a serious competitor – to Netflix and Amazon,” Murdoch said, “I think we’re all on […]