Onet.pl Group has launched a new VOD service in Poland featuring television series licensed by Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD). Additionally, Warner Bros International Branded Services has launched its first WarnerTV subscription VOD branded service in Central and Eastern Europe, within the new Group Onet.pl VOD platform. This deal marks the first launch of […]

The UK online industry is trying to boost the embryonic VOD market by reducing ad rates and standardising media buying. NMA reports that ITV and Channel 4 have cut their online video rates from CPMs of £40 (E45) to around £20. Media buyers said it was a conseqience of increasing competition – SeeSaw, YouTube, Hulu, […]

Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, has confirmed that Viasat has launched a subscription VOD service on its Viasat OnDemand Internet portal in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The service includes live sports events, hundreds of episodes of hit TV series, and access to 200 feature films at any given time. The content, […]

Swedish film streaming site Voddler, still in beta, has won another $3.5 million in funding from Eqvitec Partners and brings the total amount invested to million $20.2 million. To coincide with the announcement, Voddler is also extending its beta programme to Norway. Voddler already has 420,000 users in Sweden, and the plan is to extend […]

Virgin Media saw a record breaking 2009 with over 750 million on demand views, an increase of 50 per cent on the previous 12 months. Over 59 per cent of Virgin Media's 3.7 million TV customers are now regularly using the service, an increase of over a quarter of a million homes in a year. […]

The French VOD market continues to see growth, mainly driven by operator offers. According to preliminary figures from GFK, the VOD market grew to over E80 million in 2009, up from E53 million in 2008. TV VOD represents from 80 per cent to 90 per cent of VOD revenues in France. In this market, Orange […]

Spending on online video advertising could be pushed forward by consumers increasing willingness to view video content online, says Guy Phillipson, chief executive at the Internet Advertising Bureau. Phillipson added that he expected video advertising to grow as an online medium, in part because people are “very used to consuming video online” due to the […]

Avail-TVN, the largest digital media services company in North America, has announced an industry-wide, long-term digital media services deal with entertainment channel, VOD and online service, EPIX. The agreement provides EPIX with the technological capability to access over 48 million VOD households via every service provider in North America, providing a seamless on-ramp to launch […]

SeeSaw is aiming to launch in March, with content from partners including BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and Channel Five. The service, built from the assets of the defunct Project Kangaroo video-on-demand venture, will start an invite-only trial this week. SeeSaw is hoping to build up the number of users for its trial over the course […]

YouTube will make its debut as a movie rental outlet in the US this week to help promote some of the films that will be shown at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival in Utah. It is part of a test that YouTube hopes will encourage more studios to rent movies through its site, eventually creating […]