Australian online entertainment service Quickflix has boosted its catalogue by securing deals with The Walt Disney Company Australia, NBC Universal and BBC Worldwide ANZ to license popular and award-winning TV series programming for its streaming service. Content licensed under these new agreements include seasons of Emmy Award-winning drama series Downton Abbey, Golden Globe Award-winning US […]
A poll conducted through the Ipsos Online Omnibus revealed that 74 per cent of adult online Canadians subscribe to Cable TV/Satellite TV/IPTV. Drilling down deeper, among TV Service Subscribers, half (47 per cent) augment or compliment their service by subscribing to or using one or more OTT content services. In fact, just over a quarter […]
According to market research firm Infonetics Research, pay-TV operators are having to refine their business models as they face increased competition from a range of market players. “In a growing number of markets, pay-TV providers find themselves at a crossroads,” notes Jeff Heynen, principal analyst for broadband access and pay TV at Infonetics Research. “Their […]
An exclusive licensing agreement with The Disney/ABC Television Group is bringing Star Wars content to Netflix streaming members for the first time. The Galactic Republic, Disney/ABC Television Group, Lucasfilm and Netflix have confirmed the highly-anticipated début of the sixth and final season of the Emmy Award-winning series Star Wars: The Clone Wars exclusively to Netflix […]
Arris has published the results of a study into consumer preferences during Valentine’s nights in. The survey of 1,000 UK consumers found that:
Although it has suffered recent setbacks with injunctions being granted against the use of its OTT antenna-based TV service, FilmOn.com is upping the stakes with a major technological innovation that it claims radically changes the landscape of television. FilmOn founder and CEO Alki David has brought the fight for the public’s television rights to a […]
Following its recent deal with CBS which saw it secure subscription video on demand (SVoD) rights for the critically-acclaimed CBS drama Elementary, Hulu has agreed the expansion of a non-exclusive, multi-year licensing agreement with the broadcaster to stream programmes from CBS’s rich television library on the Hulu Plus subscription service. Terms of the deal were […]
Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has called on the global film community to stand up for effective copyright protection to encourage cultural and technological innovation, job production and economic development. Addressing a gathering of of filmmakers, legislators and policy makers from the Produzenten Allianz (German film […]
The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report, covering the third quarter of calendar 2013, shows Australians overwhelmingly prefer live to recorded television, and that they gravitate towards the largest available screen. Overall use of the in-home television set is steady year-on-year, and people’s viewing patterns are broadening with their continued uptake of new and different screen types. […]
As it seeks to differentiate its online entertainment content from market rivals, Amazon has revealed the latest round of TV pilots from Amazon Studios – an initiative that allows viewers to have a say in the shows they’ll be watching in the future. The first round of pilots resulted in the critically-acclaimed Garry Trudeau series […]