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Report: US consumers support bundled services over SVoD

TiVo has published its Q2 2024 Video Trends Report which reveals that US consumers are pulling back on entertainment spending as the industry works to rebalance and bundle its current entertainment offerings. In 2020, entertainment consumption and spending surged as the pandemic limited consumer activities outside of the home. Now the pendulum is swinging back […]

October 2, 2024

Discounted DAZN for Vodafone UK customers

Vodafone Pay Monthly mobile customers in the UK can now add DAZN, the sports streaming platform, to their plan at a discounted fee. The DAZN Flexible Pass usually costs £24.99 a month, but Vodafone Pay Monthly mobile customers can claim 40 per cent off for two months, paying £14.99 a month instead. DAZN offers sports […]

October 2, 2024

Study: Advertisers should prioritise a total TV experience

LG Ad Solutions, in collaboration with MediaScience, has released a study that underscores the effectiveness of creating a seamless Connected TV (CTV) advertising experience. The study, titled The Connect Effect, demonstrates that integrating CTV Video, Native and Mobile Video ads within a single campaign boosts key brand metrics and performance. The study revealed that brands […]

October 1, 2024

Orange Spain adds Filmin promotion

Orange Spain has added the OTT service Filmin for free for three months (as of September 30th). After the free offer, the service will be available to subscribers for €7.99 per month – €2 less than the regular price. Subscribers to Orange will be able to access a library of some 15,000 titles offered by […]

October 1, 2024From David Del Valle in Madrid

Zattoo’s Stream API services for Sky Switzerland

Zattoo, the European TV Streaming and TV-as-a-Service provider, has announced that Sky Switzerland, a provider of OTT pay television and VoD services for the Swiss market, is working closely with Zattoo as a lighthouse customer for its newly launched suite of Stream API services on Sky Switzerland’s platform, powering applications, frontends and devices in the […]

October 1, 2024

LG shares vision for AI webOS ecosystem

LG Electronics (LG) last week held webOS Summit 2024 in Incheon, South Korea, sharing its strategic vision and future initiatives for expanding the AI webOS ecosystem and growing its platform business. Themed Empowering webOS with AI, the second webOS Summit played host to around 300 attendees representing 140 partner companies – including content developers, producers […]

September 30, 2024

Study: Satisfaction highest for live TV streamers in US

Live TV streamers in the US are more satisfied than cable and satellite customers, according to the JD Power 2024 US Television Service Provider Satisfaction Study. Overall satisfaction for live TV streamers is 625 (on a 1,000-point scale) compared with 524 among cable and satellite customers. The biggest gap in satisfaction between live TV streaming […]

September 27, 2024

Prime Video, Odeon EST promotion

Trade body the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) has announced the trial of a new visual entertainment partnership between cinema chain Odeon and streaming platform Prime Video, in association with multiple major UK film distributors. From October 1st to November 7th, consumers who purchase an Odeon cinema ticket across a range of new films […]

September 27, 2024By Colin Mann

Fubo launches Multiview beta feature on Roku

FuboTV, the sports-first live TV streaming platform, has announced the launch of its popular Multiview feature in beta on select Roku devices. The beta feature is expected to launch on additional Roku devices in the coming weeks. Fubo is the first virtual MVPD (vMVPD) to bring user-configurable multiviewing to the Roku platform in the US. […]

September 27, 2024

Report: Streaming bundles gain momentum

According to analysis from Omdia, 365 million SVoD subscriptions will be distributed through operator TV, broadband and mobile bundles, representing 20 per cent of the global streaming market. By 2029, bundling is expected to generate 540 million online video streaming subscriptions, or 25 per cent of the global market. Omdia has completed a significant extension […]

September 25, 2024