Disney+ will deliver a wealth of new content and streaming premieres to subscribers on Disney+ Day (September 8th), including Marvel Studios’ Thor: Love and Thunder and Welcome to the Club – a new animated short from The Simpsons. Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products will join in the Disney+ Day festivities with perks for subscribers including […]
Digital experience specialist Adobe has launched Adobe Primetime Account IQ aimed at enabling video streaming services to identify and understand credential sharing activity, measure the impact of applying actions, and effectively monetise subscriber behaviour. Adobe notes that nearly four in 10 Americans are using someone else’s streaming account and 29 per cent of all D2C […]
Celebrated musical The Greatest Showman is coming to Disney+ in the UK on September 23rd. The biographical movie, starring Hugh Jackman, is inspired by the life of P.T. Barnum who was a visionary that rose from nothing to create the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’, a spectacle and celebration of his larger-than-life imagination that captivated audiences […]
There will be 21.52 million paying SVoD subscriptions [TV episodes and movies only] across 13 Arabic countries by 2027, up from 9.49 million in 2021, according to the Middle East and North Africa SVOD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. “Netflix will continue to lead the market, although Disney+ has provided a strong […]
The CNN Originals hub on discovery+ has debuted in the United States allowing discovery+ subscribers to access a large, curated selection of library CNN content from the network’s prestige brands: CNN Original Series, CNN Films, and HLN Original Series. Subscribers will be able to enjoy over 800 episodes of current and legacy programming at launch […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Netflix have collaborated on The Redeem Team – a nostalgic celebratory look at the iconic 2008 US Olympic Men’s Basketball victory. The documentary film will debut globally on Netflix on October 7th. Using Olympic footage and behind-the-scenes material, The Redeem Team tells the story of the US Olympic Men’s […]
Nielsen has revealed that streaming usage surpassed cable in July to claim the largest share of US television viewing for the first time, according to The Gauge, Nielsen’s monthly total TV and streaming snapshot. Streaming represented a record 34.8 per cent share of total television consumption, while cable and broadcast came in at 34.4 per […]
Samba TV, a provider of omniscreen data and analytics, has released its latest State of Viewership report, analysing approximately 24 billion hours of linear and streaming during the second quarter of 2022. Samba TV’s targeted insights illustrated a viewership landscape marked by year lows in linear TV viewership, record saturation of the linear TV ad […]
Peacock has announced that Jurassic World Dominion, from Universal Pictures, will begin streaming exclusively on on the service on September 2nd. The much-anticipated return of the celebrated franchise directed by Colin Trevorrow reunites two generations of Jurassic heroes, including Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, DeWanda Wise, Mamoudou Athie, BD […]
Africa will have 13.64 million paying SVoD subscriptions by 2027, up from 4.9 million at end-2021, according to the Africa SVOD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. Only 6.6 per cent of TV households will pay for at least one subscription by 2027 – up from 3.9 per cent at end-2021. “As well […]