2020 has seen an accelerated transition of viewing from traditional channels to free and subscription streaming video services, as consumers had more options to choose from and more time at home under Covid restrictions, according to The NPD Group’s new TV Switching Study, which tracks changes in the ways US consumers view and buy digital […]
Premium music video service Vevo has reached weekend daily highs of one billion global views, a record milestone, according to its annual year-end lookback. This year, Vevo has been hyper-focused on its distribution strategy and expansion into the home via an array of OTT partners, including Samsung TV Plus, VIZIO and Netrange. Through these partnerships, […]
Sky and Amazon have agreed a new long-term partnership that will see Prime Video launch on Sky and NOW TV devices across Europe from December 14th, while the NOW TV and Sky Ticket apps will also come to Fire TV devices. The partnership means customers in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy will now […]
Households living under lockdown have binged content like never before, driving significant uptake of both incumbent and newly-launched SVoD services. But having already exhausted the pool of new households to sell to, SVoD services must brace themselves for a much slower 2021, advises Maria Rua Aguete, Senior Director, Media and Entertainment at analyst firm Omdia, […]
Millennial-focused global channel provider and content creator Insight TV has partnered with Indian entertainment streaming platform MX Player to launch Insight TV across its OTT-service in India, as well as on its international platforms in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh and Nepal. MX Player has fast grown into becoming an entertainment super […]
The global cinema industry is set to lose $32 billion (€26.4bn) in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic a 71.5 per cent reduction in box office revenue compared to 2019, according to Omdia’s latest Movie Windows: Adapting for the future report. Box office revenue has dipped below $13 billion for the first time […]
As 2020 draws to a close, Netflix has unveiled What We Watched 2020 – compiling the year’s US viewing trends on the service. Documentaries, reality TV, romance and
The second tranche of Hub Entertainment Research’s Predicting the Pandemic research tracking the impact of the pandemic shows how it has accelerated the already well-established shift to online consumption of entertainment content, across multiple facets of the leisure economy. Highlights from the November findings: As many Americans moved indoors for the fall [autumn], large proportions […]
Traditional UK broadcasting is unlikely to survive in the online world, unless broadcasting laws and regulation are overhauled and broadcasters speed up their transformation for the digital age, concludes regulator Ofcom in its Small Screen: Big Debate review of public service broadcasting (PSB). Ofcom is looking at how to strengthen and maintain PSB for the […]
Research commissioned by global digital media company, Dugout, finds over two-thirds of publishers (72 per cent) say video advertising can drive higher revenues for their business compared to other formats and channels, and 87 per cent say it improves user experience. The research investigates where publishers and advertisers see opportunities for video advertising and explores the […]