The surprising news emerged late January 4th that Jason Kilar, the CEO of studio-backed Internet streaming service Hulu – the US joint venture of Disney, Fox Broadcasting and NBCUniversal -is step down from his role. Rich Tom, Hulu’s CTO, is also leaving the company. In a blog, Kilar wrote: “Earlier today, I sent the below […]
Hulu has reported that its revenue rose by 65 per cent in 2012 to $695 million. The US joint venture of Disney, Fox Broadcasting and NBCUniversal, is a private company and doesn’t report quarterly financials, but CEO Jason Kilar revealed some year-end figures in a blog. He said Hulu generated $100 million in revenue in […]
Avail-TVN, the multiplatform video services company, has launched its new movie Subscription VoD service – ViewNow. Designed to provide a vast library of titles that can be accessed on any device, ViewNow offers thousands of hours of SD and HD movie content in multiple formats including adaptive bitrate (ABR) Verizon FiOS launched the service in […]
Quickflix and Research In Motion have announced a partnership to make the Quickflix digital service available through connected BlackBerry 10 OS L-Series, N-Series and new generation devices in the first quarter of 2013. The partnership will allow Blackberry users in Australia and New Zealand to access Quickflix streaming and watch unlimited movies instantly, on demand […]
Quickflix has entered into an agreement with Kobo to distribute the Quickflix streaming service through connected Kobo eReaders and new generation devices. Launching in the first quarter of 2013, selected new Kobo eReaders will come pre-loaded with Quickflix allowing unlimited subscription streaming of movies and TV and pay per view of latest releases. The partnership […]
Ken Florance, Vice President of Content Delivery at Netflix, has blogged that it will now provide monthly ISP ranking based upon their performance across Netflix streams. “Our 30 million members view over 1 billion hours of Netflix per month, so we have very reliable data for consumers to compare ISPs in terms of real world […]
Australia’s Movie-streaming service Quickflix has entered into an agreement with Humax, a producer of personal video recorders, to distribute the Quickflix digital service through IP-connected PVRs, commencing in the first quarter of 2013. Humax PVR users will have access to Quickflix subscription and latest release pay per view streaming of movies and TV shows directly […]
According to a study on Internet TV by Berlin strategy consultant Goldmedia, there are currently 1,424 online TV services in Germany, with 194 million daily video hits. The number of people accessing videos has increased by 17 per cent compared to 2011. The mobile use of online TV has also increased: Every fifth video hit […]
The US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has threatened the head of Netflix with legal action for posting information about the company’s performance on Facebook rather than though official channels. Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings announced on the site that monthly viewing figures had passed one billion hours in June for the first time. Shares […]
A day after announcing a major deal with Disney, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said they were determined to secure more exclusive programme rights and develop additional original content. With the Disney deal, Netflix beat out Starz, which currently has the pay-TV rights, for new titles from Disney. Harvey Weinstein, cofounder of The Weinstein […]