Ad-free music subscription service Rdio is to close its Vdio Internet television service, which launched in April 2013 for Rdio premium subscribers. A statement on the Vdio website said: “We have decided to discontinue the Vdio beta service. Despite our efforts, we were not able to deliver the differentiated customer experience we had hoped for. […]
Perennial family favourite movie Home Alone is the most pirated holiday movie of 2013, according to findings from anti-piracy solutions specialist CEG TEK International. The company measured activity on the BitTorrent peer-to- peer (P2P) file sharing network during this year’s holiday season. CEG TEK reported that daily P2P download demand by BitTorrent users of the […]
Hulu has revealed it has topped 5 million subscribers and $1 billion in revenue in 2013. New CEO Mike Hopkins says the $1 billion revenue is an increase from $695 million the year before. Hulu says “living room viewing” accounts for more than half of the consumption from users. The app is available on several […]
The UGC curation service formerly known as Twitvid, has secured a $8 million B round of financing, and it’s using some of it to acquire the Dubai-based premium video startup Sha Sha – and is now using the team and its contracts to launch a video subscription service in the Middle East. Telly says it […]
According to global information company The NPD Group, big box-office titles, new releases, and franchise movies are the most streamed movie content on subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) services such as Netflix and Amazon Instant Video. Based on information from NPD’s SVoD Report, from January through October 2013, the three movies streamed most from SVoD services were: […]
Spain’s largest cable company ONO has launched an Internet TV service, branded ‘ONO TV online’, offering up to 40 TV channels and VoD content. Initially, the service is available on PCs and Apple Mac and iPad devices with plans to launch it on mobile phones and Android tablets in the near future. With this move, […]
iROKOtv, the Africa-based movie platform for Nigerian movies, has announced a funding round of $8 million, led by existing investor Tiger Global, with further participation from Sweden-based Kinnevik and introducing new investor to this round, US-based Rise Capital. This brings the total raised to $21 million. To-date, the capital raised by iROKOtv has been used […]
Netflix and Sony Pictures Television have revealed that Better Call Saul, the highly-anticipated spin-off of Breaking Bad, will be available exclusively to streaming members in Europe and Latin America shortly after its airing in the US, beginning in 2014. In the US and Canada, the complete first series will be available to Netflix members after […]
UPC subscribers in Romania can now access over 1500 hours of HBO premium content from HBO Romania (HBO TV series, HBO original productions, films, documentaries and special programming), on PC, smart TV, laptop, tablets or smartphones. Every week, the online platform will get an additional 30 hours of new video content which the subscribers can […]
Movie search website FindAnyFilm has become the first external partner to use the Playstation Store API, adding another legal point of purchase for consumers to the service but also extending the accessibility for in home viewing. FindAnyFilm.com aggregates film availability across all formats, allowing film fans to search for titles across localised cinema listings, comprehensive […]