Netflix’s US catalogue is getting smaller, according to tracking site Allflicks. As competition in the OTT streaming space has increased, Netflix’s once-massive selection has decreased. In fact, it has shrunk by a third in less than two and a half years.
UK fans of Formula One will not be able to see live coverage of the sport free-to-air after 2018 following a new broadcast partnership between Sky and Formula One Management, save for the home British Grand Prix and at least two others. Sky also confirmed that coverage would be available in Ultra HD from next […]
UK quad-play operator Virgin Media is to ramp up the amount of exclusive video-on-demand programming available to its Virgin Media TV XL customers to watch through its TV on demand service. David Bouchier, Chief Digital Entertainment Officer at Virgin Media, revealed the operator’s intentions at a preview screening of Kingdom, a raw, emotional family drama […]
Jason Thibeault, Senior Director Content Marketing, explains Limelight’s suite of solutions that take the complexity and the heavy lifting out of a broadcaster’s transition to online. Video, CDN, workflow, web performance, security, storage, all form modular parts of an end-to-end service, so no matter the scale of the broadcaster, or where it has reached in […]
An 80-page report from equity analysts at Exane/BNP-Paribas delivers a glowing testament for Sky’s European businesses. The report (headlined “Fortitude”) has resulted in an upgraded “Outperform” rating on the broadcaster. “We find Sky’s platform offers consumers unmatched content differentiation at a perceived reasonable value. We see the structural bear case as overdone. Flexible and cheaper […]
Recognising consumers’ desire to view content in alternative ways to traditional TV, digital experience specialist Adobe has revealed an end-to-end offering with Adobe Primetime that extends the solution to help drive audience acquisition, engagement and monetisation across every screen and platform. The new offering delivers more personalised TV and ad experiences directly to consumers via […]
Following the successful launch in October 2015 of live TV streaming app TVPlayer on Amazon Fire, live streaming and live-to-VoD solutions provider Simplestream has confirmed that pay-TV lite streaming service TVPlayer Plus is now available on Amazon Fire TV, which brings the total offering of channels to 75 within a single app for a low-cost […]
A website associated to popular UK daily tabloid newspaper the Daily Mirror has published details of how UK subscribers to Netflix can get ‘more bang for their buck’ by following a series of instructions aimed at fooling Netflix into thinking that the subscriber is in a different country, which makes it automatically make available new […]
The global television industry is in the midst of a digital revolution, and it is now clear that streaming video and non-linear viewing will be the most disruptive forces this industry has ever experienced, according to a new report – The Digital Revolution Is Disrupting the TV Industry – by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). […]
An SNL Kagan study on behalf of the MPAA looking at the availability popular film and TV titles on legal online platforms in the US has found that a significant majority of premium TV series were digitally available on at least one of the online services that were reviewed, including online VoD and TV Everywhere […]