A month after announcing its global soft launch across 190+ countries, ZEE5, the digital entertainment platform from Zee Entertainment Enterprises, has formed a strategic partnership with NetRange, a provider of global Smart TV and OTT ecosystems. The ZEE5 app will be available on all NetRange’s Smart TV platforms across its 100+ global network. Archana Anand, […]
According to the 2018 How Google Fights Piracy report, the company has invested $100 million in building Content ID, its rights management tool, leading to over 3 billion URLs being removed from Search for infringing copyright. Writing in Google’s Public Policy blog, Cedric Manara, Head of Copyright, notes that the Internet has enabled people worldwide […]
Market research and consulting company Parks Associates has released its updated list of the top 10 subscription over-the-top (OTT) video services in the US market, based on estimated number of subscribers. Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu continue to hold the top three slots, with HBO Now and Starz moving into the top five. Netflix Prime Video […]
Pay-TV revenue in Asia Pacific, comprised of subscription fees and local and regional advertising sales, will top $56 billion (€48.95bn) in 2018 after 5 per cent annual growth, according to a new report, Asia Pacific Pay-TV Distribution, from analyst firm Media Partners Asia (MPA). The Asia Pacific pay-TV industry will continue to expand at a […]
Sports streaming service DAZN is now also available to Swisscom TV customers. DAZN content is also available in 4K via the UHD Swisscom TV Box DAZN shows hundreds of live broadcasts every week and, in addition to top-class European football, also offers numerous other international sports highlights, such as basketball, baseball and American football from […]
Spanish TV group Atresmedia has upgraded its OTT platform Atresplayer adding new content, new functionalities and 4K content. Subscriber are now able to control live content, download content offline, have access to the last seven days programming, personalise TV offerings or and receive recommendations. Atresplayer has also added 4K content and launched youth channel Flooxer. […]
Research from Parks Associates finds 24 per cent of UK broadband households that own a smart speaker with personal assistant would like to control their smart TV via this device, nearly twice as many as any other device. “In the UK, the NPS [Net Promoter Score] of smart speakers is negative, so Amazon, Google Home, […]
Wurl has entered into an agreement with Samsung to power select programming on Samsung’s new TV Plus service. Integrated with millions of Samsung Smart TVs, TV Plus is a new Internet-based TV service delivering a bundle of live channels and on-demand content from multiple media brands. For Samsung Smart TV owners, the Samsung and Wurl […]
Netflix’s rapid growth in the UK seems set to continue, according to the latest edition of ScreenThink, a syndicated market tracker from research and strategy consultancy MTM. With over 9 million subscribers by the end of Q1 2018, Netflix looks set to exceed 10 million subscribers this year, if it can keep churn levels down […]
Europe will have 262 million TV subscriptions by the end of 2018; up from 205 million at end-2015, according to the European TV Databook report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. Western Europe has had the most growth. SVoD subscriptions will triple between 2015 and 2018 to 76 million, but traditional pay TV will only […]