Japanese subscribers will be able to watch Netflix on Internet-connected devices from September 2nd – marking the streaming company’s first foray into the Asian market. Netflix already sells its services in dozens of other countries outside the US as part of its ambition to be available globally by the end of next year. The costs […]
OTT TV platform Magine TV has launched its beta service in the UK, offering ‘TV For Me’: a subscription-based, personalised live TV experience, streamed directly with no cables, hardware or contracts. Its launch follows that of TVPlayer, Simplestream’s OTT streaming platform, which in addition to a range of free-to-air services, recently announced the launch of […]
Troubled Australian entertainment streaming service Quickflix has advised the Australian Securities Exchange of the termination of its reseller agreement with fellow SVoD platform Foxtel Presto, saying that the conditions precedent to the Reseller Agreement have not been met. The pair agreed the deal mid-May 2015. Quickflix said that it is pursuing other opportunities in relation […]
BBC Worldwide has announced its first VoD deal in India. The deal, with the leading DTH provider, Tata Sky covers SVoD and TVoD services and gives subscribers in eight metros in India access to the best of the BBC’s drama and comedy via ‘BBC On-Demand’, a branded property on Tata Sky’s platform. Viewers can now […]
The average amount of time each day people will spend consuming online video will increase by 23.3 per cent in 2015 and by a further 19.8 per cent in 2016, according to the Online Video Forecasts, a new report by global media network services company ZenithOptimedia in conjunction with Newcast, ZenithOptimedia Group’s global branded content […]
Telecom Italia Group has announced an agreement with Netflix that will make the streaming TV platform available to TIMvision customers. Netflix programming will be available in HD quality, directly on the TV via the TIMvision set-top box, on TIM’s fixed ADSL and UBB networks, the most broadly available networks in Italy. The service will be […]
Following the news on July 28th that Telstra had joined the Roku Powered licensing programme, the Australian telco has revealed further details of Telstra TV, its new streaming service designed specifically for Australian consumers. Joe Pollard, Telstra GMD Media and Marketing confirmed plans to offer customers the three leading subscription video on demand services – […]
Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of Disney told CNBC that ESPN could eventually be sold direct to consumers in the same way as HBO but it wouldn’t happen in the next five years. Iger said ESPN could at some point bypass distributors but said that ESPN would look for much deeper penetration into the marketplace. […]
TV operators and content owners are favouring the hybrid OTT model over more traditional solutions, according to MPP Global. With online accessibility and the number of mobile devices increasing, consumers are demanding more online video content. To accommodate this trend and compete with
Angelina Jolie is to direct a movie exclusive for Netflix, based on a memoir by a former child soldier in Cambodia. Jolie has co-written the script with Loung Ung, adapted from Ung’s book First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. The actress/director said she was “deeply affected” by the book and admits […]