The percentage of Original movie and TV season titles on Netflix’s US catalogue grew significantly over the course of 2018 according to the latest report from Ampere Analysis. In December 2016, just 4 per cent of the catalogue was made up of Netflix Originals. This had increased to 11 per cent by December 2018, as […]
Faced with an unprecedented array of digital media sources, US consumers are taking their entertainment matters into their own hands and piecing together their experiences across multiple services (pay-TV, streaming video, gaming and music) to access their favourite content, according to Deloitte’s 13th edition of the Digital Media Trends survey. The average US consumer now […]
Sky and BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC, are to bring a new range of BBC comedy and drama box sets to Sky and NOW TV customers. From April 2019, customers will be able to binge on hundreds of hours of content, newly-available on Sky and NOW TV under the trusted UKTV channel […]
Netflix’s next interactive TV series will let viewers spend time with celebrity survival instructor Bear Grylls, best known for his Discovery Channel TV show Man vs Wild. Netflix unveiled the choose-your-own-adventure series, entitled You vs Wild, at a press event in Los Angeles, adding that it will launch as an eight episode season that will […]
VoD platform Rakuten TV has revealed pan-European expansion plans through partnerships with Samsung Electronics, LG, Philips and Hisense to introduce a remote control button on their Smart TV units in Summer 2019 directly linking to the Rakuten TV streaming service. The company is undertaking a dramatic step of growth, becoming more prominent across the devices […]
Responding to parents’ demand for greater consistency across video on demand and online games platforms, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has launched what it says is an innovative new industry collaboration with Netflix to move towards classifying all content on the service using BBFC age ratings. Netflix will produce BBFC age ratings for […]
Netflix has entered into partnerships with Anima, Sublimation and David Production. These production houses and Netflix will jointly create original anime series including the animated series Altered Carbon: Resleeved from Anima. Altered Carbon is based on Netflix’s original live action science fiction series whose first season launched in February of 2018 and for which a […]
The Canal+ Group is launching an OTT drama service – c+SSéries – available from March 12th, offering what it says is thousands of hours of shows, including its Original Commissions and major international series for €6.99 a month. International series available at launch include Engrenages, Hippocrate, Versailles, Platane, Guyane, and in due course Vernon Subutex, […]
The European Commission has made commitments offered by Disney, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. and Sky legally binding under EU antitrust rules. These commitments address the Commission’s concerns regarding certain clauses in these studios’ film licensing contracts for pay-TV with Sky UK. These clauses prevented Sky UK from allowing EU consumers outside the UK and […]
Formula One’s Chairman and CEO, Chase Carey, has suggested that the forthcoming season will mark the true commercial launch of its OTT service. Speaking on the Liberty Media Corp Q4 2018 Earnings Conference Call, Carey said: “With respect to our F1 TV over the top platform, 2019 will, in many ways, be a true commercial […]