Amazon has announced a multi-territory deal with Entertainment One (eOne) that brings AMC Studios’ Fear The Walking Dead, the upcoming companion series to the hit show The Walking Dead, to Prime Video. The show will be available exclusively for Amazon Prime members in Germany and Austria on August 24th, the day after airing on AMC […]
Netflix has raised subscription prices across Europe for its streaming service, following a similar price hike in the US last year. The increase, which will only affect new customers, will see the price for a standard Netflix subscription rise from €8.99 a month to €9.99. In the note to Netflix users, the company wrote that […]
Most UK university students fail to understand the difference between recorded TV and catch-up services, according to research from TV Licensing. Almost 60 per cent of current university students are unsure about TV terminology which has evolved in recent years to describe advancements in technology and TV viewing habits, including streaming, downloading, on demand and […]
The competition between SVoD providers in Australia has claimed its first casualty with digital movie and TV show store EzyFlix announcing its closure. EzyFlix has posted a message on its website advising users that parent company Access Digital Entertainment had decided to close the website. SVoD services such as EzyFlix and Quickflix have faced increased […]
Singapore pay-TV operator StarHub has launched a new online streaming service – StarHub Go – which it says extends pay-TV reach with added flexibility. The service offers a selection of the most popular StarHub TV content delivered on demand, over-the-top, and on any device, enabling customers to access their favourite programmes at their convenience. Customers […]
Findings from consumer market research specialist Horowitz Research’s Multiplatform Content & Services report show that OTT SVoD services remain a complement to, not a replacement for, traditional pay TV: 40 per cent of Internet users have multichannel and an OTT SVoD service, 42 per cent have
In an interview with The Australian Financial Review, Foxtel CEO Richard Freudenstein rejected Netflix CEO Reed Hastings’ prediction last year that broadcast TV will probably die by 2030. “Broadcast TV will continue,” he said. “In the US you will see particularly the main broadcast channels are becoming more and more valuable, it appeals to a […]
Pornhub, the Internet’s top destination for online adult entertainment, has announced the launch of their new on-demand Internet streaming service, Pornhub Premium. Rebuilt entirely from scratch, Pornhub Premium offers an all new ad-free experience to its users, complete with faster playback and higher quality streaming on the millions of videos currently on Pornhub as well […]
Over two-thirds of online TV subscribers in the UK don’t watch original shows such as Neflix’s House of Cards or Amazon Prime Instant Video’s Extant according to Ofcom research. Netflix and Amazon, the two biggest online TV services in the UK, have invested heavily in original programming in a bid to attract more subscribers – […]
Time Warner has reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 30th. Revenues increased 8 per cent to $7.3 billion (€6.7bn) due to growth across all operating divisions. Adjusted operating income grew 15 per cent to $1.9 billion due to increases at Turner and Warner Bros, partially offset by a decline at HBO. Operating income […]