Disney+ subscribers can now sing along to classic Disney songs with star-studded performances in the ABC television special The Disney Family Singalong. Now available on the service in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, the one-hour television special is hosted by Ryan Seacrest and celebrates family, music and the love of all […]
Movie ticketing company Fandango is to buy US retail giant Walmart’s SVoD service, Vudu, for an undisclosed sum. Vudu will continue to power Walmart’s digital movie and TV store on Walmart.com. In a Blog Post, Vudu said: Hi Vudu customers, We have some exciting news to share with you! Vudu has entered into an agreement […]
WarnerMedia has revealed that its highly-anticipated direct-to-consumer SVoD service HBO Max will officially launch May 27th, and has also unveiled its slate of premium Max Originals that will be available to viewers on Day One. The line-up includes the scripted comedy Love Life, starring Anna Kendrick; Sundance 2020 Official Selection feature documentary On the Record; underground ballroom dance competition […]
With Netflix about to unveil its all-important quarterly results amid expectations that the ongoing pandemic will boost subscriptions, analyst firm Futuresource Consulting has reflected on 2019 as being Netflix’s best ever year for net subscriber additions (net adds), highlighting countries which are showing significant momentum as well as looking at factors that may see a […]
The BBC has unveiled record numbers of viewers have been watching content on its iPlayer platform during this unprecedented period. March 23rd was iPlayer’s most popular day ever, with a record 20.4 million requests to stream programmes on the service, as the Prime Minister addressed the nation. This is the first time iPlayer has seen […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced that its NexGuard Streaming watermarking solution for OTT has been integrated with Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences. The integrated solution leverages Akamai’s edge platform to bring an added level of anti-piracy enforcement […]
All 4, the VoD service owned by Channel 4, has achieved its highest number of quarterly views ever across Q1 of this year, driven by titles including Friday Night Dinner, Gogglebox, The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer, Hollyoaks, Celebs Go Dating and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. This record breaking period includes All 4’s […]
Total online video weekly streaming minutes on mobile grew 60 per cent in aggregate across Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore between January 20th and April 11th 2020, according to a report published by Media Partners Asia (MPA). With the disruption and subsequent lockdown measures enforced during the Covid-19 pandemic, total online video streaming weekly […]
Parrot Analytics reports that the share of demand for Disney+ is up 7.54 per cent in France since March 11th, when the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Coronavirus a global pandemic. While Disney pushed back the launch of its SVoD service in France to April 7th, demand for the service registered the largest growth […]
As previously reported, Disney’s adaptation of Artemis Fowl, the first in a series of fantasy novels by Eoin Colfer, is set to forego a cinema release and debut straight on the Disney+ streaming platform. Disney has now confirmed that the movie will stream exclusively on the SVoD platform from June 12th. From director Kenneth Branagh, […]