South African pay-TV giant DStv has signed up Netflix and Amazon’s Prime Video for its next-generation Explora set-top box. MultiChoice Group, in a statement, said it had already launched streaming trials in South Africa to boost consumer choice and improve retention of subscribers. MultiChoice has suffered churn over the past few years, not helped by […]
Netflix and Mo Abudu, an acclaimed Nigerian producer, have entered into a multi-title partnership that will continue growing the company’s investment in Nigerian content. Under this partnership, Abudu – through her production company, EbonyLife – will create two Netflix Original series as well as multiple Netflix branded films and a series that have been licensed […]
Just weeks after its launch in the UK, Disney+ emerged in April as the country’s third-largest SVoD player, with 4.3 million subscribers. Disney’s SVoD service, which started operating in the UK on March 24th, already carved out a 16.8 per cent share of subscribers by the end of April, according to survey data from
Covid-19 has brought on many changes in the way people consume media, with more than half of Americans (56 per cent) saying they are using paid streaming services at a higher rate today than before the pandemic. As shelter-in-place mandates begin to lift, findings from
Americans staying home are happier with their Internet and subscription TV service, according to the ACSI Telecommunications Report 2019-2020 from The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Video streaming maintains its status leading customer satisfaction Covid-19 has dramatically changed the way Americans work and how they spend their leisure time. With stay-at-home and work-from-home becoming a […]
Findings from analyst firm Parks Associates indicate that 76 per cent of US broadband households subscribed to an OTT video service in Q1 2020, while the churn rate for streaming services was 41 per cent. Sixty-two per cent of US broadband
After use surges in March and April, viewing time for the major US SVoD services dipped in May, research company 7Park Data reports. Netflix, which saw average US household viewing minutes surpass 600 in April, dipped to around 550 average viewing minutes. Disney+, meanwhile, reached 200 average viewing minutes per household, then fell back to […]
Research from Ampere Analysis has revealed that one in seven online video households worldwide are ‘borrowing’ an account. Ampere defines an account borrower as anyone who says they are using a login for a subscription online video platform from someone outside of their household to access a service. Borrowed services might include mainstream TV and
Young viewers value public-service television as much as older generations, according to research conducted for UK free-to-air platform Freeview. The streaming generation has given a powerful vote of confidence to free-to-view TV as lockdown sees young people placing high value on the four public service broadcasters – BBC, ITV, C4 and Channel 5 – for […]
Seven out of ten Brits aren’t prepared to spend more than £20 (€22.50) per month on streaming services, a drop of £5 compared to September 2019 when the same proportion of the population was willing to spend up to £25, according to research by advertising technology company The Trade Desk. This could mean a reduction […]