SPI/FilmBox has announced that FilmBox Arthouse, which delivers a curation of contemporary arthouse movies and world cinema, has launched on Prime Video Channels in the Netherlands as add-on paid monthly subscription package. The package currently features a SVoD proposition that allows viewers to choose the movies they would like to watch with the linear channel […]
Fox News International, Fox News Media’s international streaming service, has announced its expanded distribution on Roku. Starting January 31st, the direct-to-consumer platform will see increased reach across the UK, Chile, Costa Rica, Germany, Ireland, Mexico and Panama. Featuring live streams of Fox News Channel (FNC) and Fox Business Network (FBN) along with a catalogue of […]
Discovery was the greatest global commissioner of TV shows in 2021, with a record-breaking 556 first-run TV titles commissioned in the year, according to Ampere Analysis. This extends Discovery’s lead of 46, recorded in 2020, to 153 titles by the end of 2021. ViacomCBS pipped Netflix for second place with 406 titles, compared to Netflix’s […]
Entertainment on Demand, the solution measuring streaming service subscription levels, has revealed subscriber behaviours in the US for the fourth quarter of 2021. The proportion of US households who have a video subscription has risen to 85 per cent (up 2 per cent points QoQ, and up 2 per cent points YoY), after two consecutive […]
Starzplay, the SVoD service in the MENA region, has partnered with Discovery to present its ‘Original’, ‘Say Yes to the Dress Arabia,’ available to stream exclusively on the platform from February 11, 2022, with two episodes released each week. ‘Say Yes To The Dress Arabia’, a Starzplay Original, is coming to the Middle East for […]
Insights and consulting company Kantar’s Entertainment on Demand study uncovers the following behaviours within the UK VoD market over the 3 months to December 2021: Between September and December 2021, the number of VoD-enabled households that subscribed to at least one video streaming service in Great Britain grew to 17.1million, up almost 400k, quarter on […]
Media workflow specialist Bitcentral has acquired direct-to-consumer video publishing solution provider Powr.tv. The Powr.tv end-to-end platform allows media networks and content owners to deploy OTT and mobile applications rapidly, broaden their reach to new audiences, and increase their revenue. Since its inception in 2016, Powr.tv’s OTT publishing platform has quickly grown to 10 million+ cumulative […]
Streaming service HBO Max was by far the SVoD platform with the highest growth in Spain in Q1 2021 with a customer share of 28.6 per cent, up 7 per cent on the previous quarter, according to consultancy firm GECA. Despite the increase in subscribers, HBO Max is still behind Movistar Plus, with 29.1 per […]
Discovery and LG Electronics Canada have announced that discovery+, the definitive non-fiction subscription streaming service, is now available on LG Smart TVs in Canada, including LG’s line-up of LG OLED TVs and LG QNED MiniLED TVs. LG customers in Canada now have direct access to discovery+ and more than 200 exclusive, original series across fan-favourite, real […]
Disney+ has announced that 20th Century Studios’ The King’s Man will debut on Disney+ under the Star banner in select international markets and on Star+ in Latin America as follows: February 9th: UK & Ireland, Japan, Korea February 23rd: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Luxembourg March 2nd: Latin America The King’s Man […]