Less than 1 per cent of Netflix users are playing games on the streaming service, according to a report from Apptopia. Since November 2021, the streamer has been rolling out mobile games as a means of keeping subscribers engaged between show releases. The games are accessible only to those with a Netflix account, but have […]
SVoD service HBO Max has completed the roll out of a new user experience on desktop, iOS and Android mobile devices, and Amazon Fire tablets, where available globally. The re-platformed app delivers highly requested new features from HBO Max fans and marks the conclusion of moving all HBO Max apps to a new, more performant […]
Warner Bros Discovery and Dish Network have announced that discovery+, the non-fiction real life subscription streaming service, will be available to both Sling TV and Dish TV customers in the US. The platform launched with 70,000+ episodes of premium content, including original series and on-demand programming on Sling on August 8th followed by DISH on […]
Honduras’ Tevistat improved more than any other ISP for the month of July on the Netflix ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which ISPs provide the best primetime Netflix streaming experience. Tevistat returned to its April form, with an increase of 0.2 Mbps to 2.4 Mbps. Tevistat saw a similar increase in April […]
Connected entertainment specialist VIZIO has revealed its payment and subscription management solution, VIZIO Account, which it says provides a seamless and accessible way for millions of VIZIO Smart TV users to subscribe to their favourite streaming services and take advantage of special offers – all in one place. Following a one-time log-in, users can easily […]
Connected entertainment specialist VIZIO has confirmed that the STARZ app is now available on VIZIO Smart TVs. Millions of VIZIO users across America can now access STARZ’s premium hit original series and library of on-demand movies. Highlights include STARZ original series from the Power Universe, Outlander and P-Valley, as well as titles such as Spider-Man: […]
Warner Bros Discovery has revealed further details about its plan to combine SVoD services HBO Max and Discovery+ into one offering. Speaking during the company’s Q2 analyst call, executives said a merged version of the two SVoD services would begin to roll out in the US in the summer of 2023 and expand to other […]
Pay-TV operator Sky and streaming service DAZN have signed what they describe as a major new strategic agreement in Italy that makes the DAZN app available on Sky Q from the August 8th and also allows Sky subscribers to access the ZONA DAZN channel via the Sky decoder for a special DAZN rate, offering seven […]
Video content budgets across India, Korea and Southeast Asia climbed 21 per cent in 2021 to reach $10.4 billion (€10.2bn) and are forecast to grow 15 per cent to $12.0 billion in 2022, according to the latest edition of Asia Video Content Dynamics from analyst firm Media Partners Asia (MPA). This report tracks video content consumption, […]
BARB, the UK’s television audience measurement service, has released data from its Establishment Survey for Q2 2022, showing a decline in the number of UK households with access to a subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) service. In Q2 2022, 19.19 million UK homes (67 per cent of households) had access to an SVoD service, a decrease of […]