The Walt Disney Company has announced that Disney+ will fast track the premiere of the filmed version of the original Broadway production of Hamilton, bringing the multiple-award winning stage musical to homes around the world on July 3rd. Producers for Hamilton, the film of the original Broadway production, include Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeffrey Seller and Thomas […]
France’s TV regulator the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) and its partners within the Observatory of audiovisual equipment for households in mainland France have revealed its latest findings for television and radio, two media which it says are of major importance during the health crisis. According to the CSA, trends observed in recent years are […]
Global SVoD subscriptions will increase by 519 million between 2019 and 2025 to 1.161 billion – or up by 81 per cent, according to the Global SVOD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. The total will climb by 170 million in 2020 alone. Five global platforms will have 640 million paying SVoD subscribers […]
Bob Bakish, ViacomCBS CEO, used its results call to float plans for an international SVoD product within the next year as part of the expansion of its streaming product line. He made concrete announcements upgrading its US domestic offering CBS All Access with a number of initiatives including adding 100+ Paramount films. Bakish commented: “]…] […]
Premium content services and media technology solutions provider Vubiquity, part of the Amdocs Media division, has completed the provisioning of premium entertainment content from all major Hollywood studios to Singaporean quad-play operator StarHub’s transaction-based TV on demand (TVoD) service. As part of the engagement between the two companies, Vubiquity is providing StarHub with a wide […]
Peacock, NBCUniversal’s forthcoming SVoD service, will be available on Microsoft’s Xbox One family of devices, including Xbox One S and Xbox One X, when it launches in the US on July 15th, 2020. At that time, Peacock will offer a free tier featuring more than 7,500 hours of movies, shows, and timely live and on-demand […]
HBO Max has ordered the adult animated series Santa Inc from Lionsgate, featuring voice performances by leads Sarah Silverman and Seth Rogen. The 8 episode, half-hour series will be written by showrunner Alexandra Rushfield (Shrill) and will be produced by Rogen’s Point Grey Pictures as part of their multiplatform partnership with Lionsgate. Santa Inc. is the […]
Sandvine, a provider of network intelligence solutions, has released a special Covid-19 Global Internet Phenomena Report. This report analyses how traffic on consumer broadband networks has undergone a massive change as consumers are primarily using their fixed-line home networks for their internet access. This edition of the Phenomena Report provides a unique view of internet […]
Ahead of the release of its report, COVID-19 Impact on Communications and Entertainment, market research and consulting company Parks Associates predicts consumer usage of TVoD (transactional video on-demand) service will increase significantly in 2020. The firm’s OTT Video Market Tracker reports that in Q1 2020, 14 per cent of US broadband households had used a […]
Analysts at research firm Ampere Analysis are publishing a regular podcast discussing the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on the entertainment industry. Here is a top line summary of the most recent discussing what it means for the entertainment industry now, and for a post-lockdown future. Ups and downs for US operators in Q1: Daniel […]