Connected television in Germany and Austria has now passed the threshold into rapid and sustained growth, The total number of SVoD subscriber grew by 46 per cent in the first six months of 2015, according to consulting firm Deadline Media TV. This is without any noticeable cord cutting.The primary challenge of OTT TV is to […]
Vodafone and Orange are seeking deals with Netflix – which is set to launch in Spain in October – to stop the expansion of Telefónica’s Movistar Plus, their main rival. Their strategy is reaching distribution agreements and alliances with the US streaming service to offer their clients good series and films. Vodafone and Orange claim […]
Digital TV Research forecasts 68.83 million SVoD [subscription video on demand] homes by 2020, quadruple the 2014 total and up from only 1.47 million in 2010. The Asia Pacific OTT TV & Video Forecasts report maintains that Japan will remain the largest SVoD country. China will overtake South Korea to become the second largest country […]
As consumers embrace and experiment with a host of new ways of watching TV content, a new GfK MRI report has identified six new TV viewing audience groups and how they combine emerging and traditional options for TV use. TV Share of Clock – the first of four studies in GfK MRI’s new The Future of TV […]
Uptake of subscription video on demand (SVoD) services delivered over the Internet has skyrocketed in Australia with two million active subscriptions recorded at the end of June 2015, according to new research by emerging technology analyst firm Telsyte. Up from 315,000 subscriptions at the end of December 2014, the massive growth has been driven by […]
AMC Networks has become the latest programmer to develop a SVoD platform. The US company is beta-testing Shudder, a streaming service that specialises in horror movies. AMC has yet to announce when the platform will officially launch, but it did reveal that it will be available for iOS and Android mobile devices, as well as Roku. […]
The WWE Network is now available for $9.99 (€9.15) per month in Italy, offering all 12 annual WWE pay-per-view events live, including WWE Battleground on July 19th where Brock Lesnar will face Seth Rollins for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. New subscribers to WWE Network receive their first month of service for free. WWE Network […]
Totalplay, a Grupo Salinas company that provides tripleplay services though DTH fibre optics in Mexico, has formed an alliance with Netflix to integrate the streaming app directly into Totalplay set-top boxes. This is the first time in Mexico that the Netflix app is included in a pay-TV platform. Totalplay clients can access their Netflix accounts […]
This past year has seen OTT ‘broadcaster’ Netflix grow its viewing 87 per cent in the US, and in the process take itself to the third-biggest broadcaster in the country according to ad-company blog Alphonso. For the established broadcasters in the US, there’s worse to come: Alphonso says that next year could see Netflix occupy […]
A+E Networks has launched Lifetime Movie Club, the network’s first direct-to-consumer subscription service which grants subscribers access to a library of Lifetime Movies without commercial interruptions for $3.99 a month. The subscription video service comes in time for the 25-year anniversary of Lifetime Movies and is available exclusively on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch at […]