Apple is preparing a move into original content production as it seeks to take on the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. The tech giant is planning to bundle original video content with its $10-a-month Apple Music subscription service by the end of 2017, according to a report from the WSJ. Apple has reportedly […]
January 11th saw officers from the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) visit organisations found to be advertising on websites involved in digital piracy. Officers from the unit visited eight organisations including brands, advertising agencies and networks, as part of a multi-agency initiative known as Operation Creative, which sees the police working […]
Starz Play, the on-demand video streaming service available in 19 countries across the MENA region, has announced an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution to provide its movies and series to the service’s subscribers. Khaled Benchouche, SVP of Programming & Acquisition at Starz Play, commented: “We are delighted to be working with 20th Century […]
According to research and knowledge-based consulting company Futuresource Consulting, announcements of global roll-outs in the video space at the start of 2016 and 2017 respectively by Netflix and Amazon are indicative of
BT Sport is to offer a free simulcast of the NBA Global Game between the Denver Nuggets and Indiana Pacers on January 12th to fans across the UK on Facebook, Freeview and Virgin Media. It will be the first time an NBA game will be shown live on Facebook in the UK. Fans will be […]
Although it is no secret that the major SVoD platforms Amazon and Netflix have rapidly increased their content spend, reaching similar levels to traditional TV groups, research consultancy firm Ampere Analysis notes that Netflix’s content spend is now comparable
Sony Pictures Television’s portfolio of kids’ channels is launching a catch-up service on UK Internet TV platform YouView from January 10th. Following YouView’s recent announcement of a re-engineering and redesign of the entire platform, Sony Kids is the first player to launch since the roll out of the new software. Sony Kids brings together Sony’s […]
Netflix scooped two awards at the Golden Globes ceremony. The streaming giant’s royal monarch production The Crown was named best drama whilst Claire Foy won the award for best actress for the same series. Stranger Things, Netflix’ 80s-inspired sci-fi drama that proved to be one of the biggest TV hits of 2016, failed to win […]
VideoAmp, the Total Video platform for the TV and Video ecosystem, and Immersv, a virtual reality (VR) discovery and advertising platform, has announced an agreement to connect Immersv’s VR/360 advertising platform with VideoAmp’s proprietary user graph, and its screen tensor video ad platform. Under the terms of the partnership, VideoAmp will be able to provide […]
Investment by new digital services such as Spotify, Sky, Amazon, Apple Music and Google has resulted in sales of music, video and games running £1 billion ahead of where they were just four years ago, according to data compiled by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). Preliminary figures from ERA indicate that booming digital services helped […]