Netflix is said to be in talks with the BBC to stream the new series of Top Gear, in a deal that could see the show go head to head globally with Jeremy Clarkson’s new Amazon Prime show. The revamped Top Gear, which will be hosted by Chris Evans, Matt Le Blanc and Eddie Jordan, […]
US streaming service Hulu has jointly acquired the US rights to Joshy, obtaining exclusive streaming rights to the comedy after its January debut at the Sundance Film Festival. Hulu has acquired the rights with Lionsgate Entertainment, which will release the film in cinemas before it moves to the streaming service. The deal marks the first […]
Canal+ Group and iROKO are launching the iroko+ SVoD service for French-speaking Africa. The Android app will be available across all of French Speaking Africa, bringing 1,500 hours of affordable, premium Nollywood & Télénovelas content to millions of Francophone entertainment fans. Available now on the GooglePlay store, iroko+ is free until June 1st and users […]
Attackers are stealing users’ Netflix credentials and making them available on black markets focused on providing access to the streaming service for cheaper prices, according to cybersecurity specialist Symantec. Writing in the Company Blog, Lionel Payet, Threat Intelligence Officer, notes that the entertainment streaming service’s growing popularity and global expansion has attracted the attention of […]
YouTube has confirmed that it will premiere the first of its YouTube Red Originals on February 10. Writing in the YouTube blog, Susanne Daniels, Global Head of Original Content, says that in addition to getting all of YouTube uninterrupted and a premium YouTube Music experience, a YouTube Red membership will now give users exclusive access […]
According to a poll from Essential Research conducted in January, 66 per cent of Australians who download films, TV shows and music from peer-to-peer (free) sharing sites also subscribe to Netflix, Foxtel or other paid streaming service subscribers. This appears to indicate that if the content was available via those paid streaming services, piracy wouldn’t […]
Analysts from Media Partners Asia (MPA) estimate that Netflix could secure 9 million paying subs in Asia-Pacific by 2020, without assuming significant localisation in markets such as India and Korea. Vivek Couto, executive director of Media Partners Asia, suggests that the Internet TV service’s wider entry into Asia-Pacific is a major catalyst for the growth […]
Responding to pay-TV competitor Singtel’s deal to offer its customers access to Netflix, Singaporean operator StarHub and Netflix have agreed a partnership that will bring the streaming service to StarHub’s Fibre TV customers through their set-top boxes by the early second quarter of 2016. StarHub will also join the Netflix Open Connect programme to provide […]
Hot on the heels of announcing a global launch and the addition of 130 countries to its operations, streaming giant Netfllix is taking steps to reduce the usage of proxies that enable ‘subscribers’ to access content only available outside their licensed territory. Writing in the company blog, David Fullagar, Vice President of Content Delivery Architecture, […]
The British Video Association (BVA) – the body which champions video entertainment in all its forms – is launching a cross industry umbrella campaign entitled #MovieWeekender in partnership with Bauer Media. The first campaign of its kind from the video industry sees Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment UK, Warner Bros Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures UK, […]