The latest update to Sky+ is designed to make it even easier for users to binge-watch their way through content on the Sky Box Sets service. The changes, Sky’s first software update of 2016, come as Sky Box Sets customers will get exclusive access to the full series of The Tunnel: Sabotage and Billions, the […]
TV advertising revenue in the UK totalled £5.27 billion (€6.76bn) in 2015, up 7.4 per cent on 2014, according to full year revenue figures provided to Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – by the UK commercial TV broadcasters. This is the sixth consecutive year that TV advertising revenue has […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel is planning to launch a TV streaming device in an effort to compete more effectively with OTT players such as Netflix. Any such initiative would pitch Foxtel against Telstra TV, the service owned by Foxtel’s 50 per cent shareholder Telstra. Foxtel’s other shareholder is Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (Twenty-First Century Fox, […]
Blue Skye Entertainment, a Blue Ant Media and Smithsonian Networks joint venture, has launched its new, direct-to-consumer Love Nature 4K SVoD service in 32 countries worldwide, including UK, Australia, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand and Switzerland. On Love Nature, subscribers will enjoy a robust library of documentaries, series, featured themes and exclusive natural history scenes updated […]
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 […]
As Netflix ramps up its global roll-out, adding 130 countries in January, the company says it wanted its service to work well everywhere in the world, and that meant solving many complex technical problems with a global approach. In a company Blog, Research Engineers at the Internet entertainment streaming firm note that the personalised recommendations […]
Vevo, the online music video service owned by Sony and Universal, is working on launching an ad-free subscription service with original content later this year. Erik Huggers, who took over the chief executive job in April, announced the plan at the Code/Media conference in Dana Point, California. Vevo videos, which receives around 17 billion views […]
Fresh from its merger with Rentrak, cross-platform measurement specialist comScore has revealed that its planned Total Home Panel measurement platform will enable the measurement of over-the-top services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime with title level information. Speaking on comScore’s Q4 2015 Results Earnings Call, Serge Matta, Executive Vice Chairman and President of comScore, said […]
Analysts at ARK Investment Management estimate that Netflix’s subscriber base will more than double in the next five years, growing to 175 million by 2020, up from 75 million in 2015. This growth will be fuelled by aggressive international expansion of its streaming service, increasing broadband penetration, and a growing library of content that caters […]
Analysis by specialist firm Digital TV Research of Netflix’s pricing strategy as it enters 130 new territories reveals that its rates – $8/month for one screen, $10/month for two screens and $12/month for four screens and HD content – are reasonable in developed countries, but are high in developing ones. Noting that Reed Hastings, Netflix’s […]