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Booba returns to Netflix for third season

Following a string of international broadcast deals, 3D Sparrow celebrates Netflix’s renewal of Booba, for its third season, along with the new Booba short ‘Food Puzzle’. The season will be streamed internationally from February. Booba, a non-dialogue family show created by 3D Sparrow, features the adventures of a joyful, funny and curious little hobgoblin called […]

January 28, 2021

Sky unveils biggest ever slate of original content

Sky and NOW TV will air over 125 new Sky Originals throughout 2021. Sky will bring its subscribers 30 new Sky Original films and 30 new Sky Original documentaries, on top of a number of drama, comedy, entertainment and arts series. Altogether, Sky says there will be 50 per cent more original TV and film […]

January 25, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Data: Amazon half of new UK SVoD sign-ups in Q4

Kantar, the data, insights and consulting company has published Q4 2020 results from its Entertainment On Demand service in the UK. With 12.9 million subscriptions taken out last year, the service reveals the following consumer behaviours in the three months to December 2020: Amazon Prime membership jumped again in Q4, with 53.5 per cent of […]

January 21, 2021

Pluto TV launching in France

ViacomCBS Networks International has confirmed that Pluto TV, the free streaming television service, will debut in France on February 8th. Pluto TV will be available on all major streaming devices (TV, smartphone, tablet, PC) via the Pluto TV browser, via app on Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast and the iOS and Android […]

January 21, 2021

Wyplay joins global network of Alexa solution providers

Wyplay, a global TV Professional Services and Video Platform Solutions provider with more than 15 years of experience, is now a member of the Amazon Alexa Solution Providers network. With an extensive track record in voice-interaction experiences and integrations, Wyplay accompanies TV operators with the integration of the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) on multiple hardware […]

January 21, 2021

Report: Pandemic fuels shift to brand-funded TV content

Global media intelligence consultancy, K7 Media, has released a report surrounding the rapidly evolving area of brand-funded programming. Titled Brand Funded Programming: Why it Matters Now, the report shines a light on the way in which the pandemic has swiftly accelerated a change in attitudes, making brand funded content a necessity for many cash-strapped broadcasters. […]

January 20, 2021

Mediaset wins Champions League FTA and streaming

Italian broadcasting group Mediaset has acquired the streaming rights for 104 matches from the UEFA Champions League during the 2021-2024 seasons. According to Italian news agency Radicor, Sky Italia and Mediaset have snatched up the most important Italian TV rights packages for Europe’s premier football competition. Besides the streaming rights, Mediaset also obtained the exclusive […]

January 19, 2021From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Datazoom 3rd CDN integration; releases Collector for Amazon CloudFront

Datazoom, the Real-time Video Data Platform, has announced the release of their integration with Amazon CloudFront, expanding upon their capabilities to capture, standardize, and route data from across the end-to-end workflow of video. Recently, the company announced one of the industry’s first end-to-end data collection, standardization, and routing services for streaming Content Delivery Network (CDN) […]

January 19, 2021

Forecast: SVoD growth will fall back to 2015 level

SVoDs will have much slower growth in 2021 after the record-breaking 2020, according to Omdia. While global OTT TV subscriptions rose from 849 million in 2019 to 1.06 billion last year – overtaking global pay-TV numbers – growth is likely to be relatively slower this year, with the overall number rising to 1.14 billion. Traditional […]

January 18, 2021