Icon Film Distribution will launch its new standalone edition of the Icon Film Channel (IFC) on major app stores in December. After the success of the streaming service’s exclusive launch earlier this year on Amazon Prime Video Channels, Icon Film Distribution says that launching its offering as a standalone IFC app will provide yet more […]
The aha streaming service is using Firstlight Media’s industry-first end-to-end cloud-native OTT platform as the technology foundation to power its next phases of growth in India and beyond. aha has launched a first-to-market “glocal” strategy that harnesses a 100% cloud-based infrastructure to deliver localized services in discrete markets, all powered by a single, common backend. […]
Despite predictions of a pandemic peak, streaming adoption continues to gain ground in almost every single region quarter after quarter, according to the Q3 2021 State of Streaming report from Conviva. Streaming viewing time grew 21 per cent worldwide in Q3 2021 as compared to the same quarter in 2020, led by Africa, Oceania and […]
IMDb TV, Amazon’s premium free streaming service, has announced that 15 live linear channels have been added to the service, including hit comedy series and reality TV, true crime, design, pop culture, and more. Additionally, the IMDb TV standalone app on Fire TV is now available in the UK. The 15 recently added live linear […]
View TV Group has signed a channel carriage deal on their Kapang CTV platform for broadcast in North America and the UK with the premier African safari themed channel WildEarth. “WildEarth is such an amazing idea. To have the ability to be in the centre of an African safari with the sights, sounds and expert […]
In 2021, US Roku monthly users will increase by 11.5 per cent, reaching 111.7 million monthly users, according to eMarketer forecasts. With these figures, Roku will maintains it position as the most-used connected TV (CTV) device in the US market, but Amazon Fire TV is catching up. Roku users now make up a third of the US population. Despite […]
Newsy says it has become the first free 24/7 broadcast news network in the US, available to more than 90 per cent of TV homes across the nation, through over-the-air service and supplementing its OTT and connected TV distribution. The opinion-free national news network now serves its audiences with 14 news bureaus across the country […]
VideoElephant, an aggregator of premium video content, has announced the launch of a Channels marketplace, a collection of more than 150 licensable, linear video feeds providing curated, 24-hour programming experiences for streaming platforms, digital media companies and brands. The Channels marketplace is the latest addition to VideoElephant’s expanding portfolio of video content licensing, discovery, and […]
fuboTV, the sports-first, US TV streaming platform, will take its integrated predictive, free-to-play games and FanView live stats feature out of beta just in time for the September window of the South American Qatar World Cup 2022 Qualifying matches (CONMEBOL). fuboTV has exclusive streaming rights to CONMEBOL through March 2022. Starting September 2nd, fuboTV subscribers […]
Estrella Media, a media company creating Spanish-language video and audio content for multiplatform distribution in the United States and worldwide, has become the first Spanish-language network to launch on the Amazon News app on Amazon Fire TV devices. Streaming influential news coverage from across the United States, Mexico, and Latin America, the Estrella News team […]