Parks Associates reports that the churn rate for OTT services increased from 35 per cent in Q1 2019 to 41 per cent in Q1 2020. During the Covid-19 crisis, more than two in five US broadband households have trialed an OTT service, and 8 per cent of households have trialed four or more services. “We […]
Smartphone gross SVoD subscriptions for 138 countries will double between 2019 and 2025 to 170 million, according to the Smartphone SVoD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. The total will climb by 25 million in 2020 alone. The net smartphone SVoD subscriber count will
UK multiplay operator Virgin Media is refreshing its bundle line-up, suggesting it is offering customers greater value with faster broadband, flexible TV picks and data-packed mobile SIMs. New and existing customers can take Virgin Media’s M500 Fibre broadband with any package: from broadband-only to a bundle which includes TV, home phone and a mobile SIM. […]
The adolescent life of NFL quarterback and activist Colin Kaepernick will be explored in Colin in Black & White, a new scripted limited series from Kaepernick and Academy Award Nominee and Emmy Award Winner Ava DuVernay. The Netflix series will focus on Kaepernick’s formative high school years, lending insight into the acts and experiences that […]
The first Norwegian Netflix film Cadaver will launch October 22 globally on Netflix. The film is written and directed by the young and talented director Jarand Herdal and stars Gitte Witt, Thorbjørn Harr and Thomas Gullestad. Cadaver is a Norwegian psychological horror film that takes us on a journey where humanity is being put to […]
The surge in users of SVoD services during the stay-at-home period was not always sustained once people were allowed to move around more freely, according to new research from analyst firm Strategy Analytics. The report, Covid-19’s Impact on SVoD, surveyed a
The OTT landscape in 2020 is rapidly changing as a result of the growth of OTT services, content and devices, as well as the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on consumer behaviour, according to the 2020 State of OTT report from cross-platform measurement specialist Comscore. Using data from Comscore OTT Intelligence, the report offers insights […]
Netflix, CD Projekt Red, and Studio Trigger have announced an all new original anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners set in the same universe as the highly anticipated game, Cyberpunk 2077. The series will premiere in 2022. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed […]
Netflix is one of the few fortunate companies, which has a service that is more meaningful to people who are forced to stay at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This was reflected on Twitter as well, where the influencer discussions related to ‘Netflix’ spiked more than 60 per cent
Netflix has unveiled Homemade, a collection of short films created by celebrated filmmakers around the world. Confined at home as a consequence of the Covid-19 outbreak, filmmakers created personal stories that capture our shared experience of life in quarantine. Produced by The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle company, and Fabula, Homemade is a celebration of the […]