Manchester City football club has signed a deal with Amazon Prime worth more than £10 million (€11.3m) for a behind-the-scenes TV series following the club through the 2017-18 season. The Premier League has agreed to the series, which will debut on Amazon Prime Video towards the end of 2018. “We are delighted to begin this […]
Findings from analyst house Juniper Research indicate that global consumer spend on digital content will reach $202 billion (€175bn) in 2018, up by 10 per cent on this year’s total of $184 billion. The research found that SVoD services will be a key driver of growth, with major OTT players such as Netflix and Amazon […]
The rise of SVoD services such as Netflix and Amazon is threatening the future of British TV, the BBC’s director general Tony Hall is set to warn in a speech.Hall is due to give the speech at Liverpool’s John Moores University today (November 2nd) warning of the “serious threat” due to changes taking place in […]
Internet TV service Showmax has launched an app for Sony’s PlayStation 4 gaming console. The app is currently only available in South Africa. Showmax is an online TV service with a catalogue of popular series and movies available on demand with no ads, including weekly episodes of new shows express from the US, like Mr […]
Amazon Prime Video has announced that the second series of The Grand Tour, Amazon’s number one show, will launch exclusively on Prime Video on December 8th. The new episodes featuring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will be released weekly, exclusively for Prime members. For series 2, the trio have filmed across five continents, visiting more places than […]
Data science and media technology company, 4C Insights, has unveiled that Stranger Things is closing in on Game of Thrones as the second season drew over three quarters of a million engagements across social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc). Most notable findings include: The number of social media engagements rose from 148,063 the night […]
Revenues lost to online piracy will nearly double between 2016 and 2022 to $51.6 billion (€44.5bn), according to the Online TV Piracy Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. Covering 138 countries, these forecasts include revenues lost to TV episodes and movies – but not other sectors such as sports or pay-TV. “Piracy will never be […]
Following today’s (October 27th) launch of Stranger Things Season 2 on Netflix, the SVoD service has also launched its first after-show. Entitled Beyond Stranger Things, the show is hosted by writer, producer and actor Jim Rash, and will offer behind-the-scenes stories, episode analysis and answers to “all the burning questions”. As with Stranger Things, all […]
Netflix is planning to raise another $1.6bn (€1.36bn) from investors to finance new content and make new acquisitions. The video streaming giant plans to spend up to $8 billion on content next year to keep the edge on its rivals. Netflix will issue bonds to investors, although the interest rate it will pay has yet […]
With its parent company Vivendi under regulatory pressure regarding its shareholdings in both Telecom Italia and pay-TV operator Mediaset, Canal + is forming a joint-venture with Telecom Italia focused on rights acquisition and production of films and TV series. The joint venture’s aim is to support Telecom Italia in developing a unique pay-TV offer in […]