Quibi and Lionsgate have announced the series order of the drama Swimming with Sharks, to be written and produced by Kathleen Robertson and directed by Tucker Gates. Lionsgate describes Swimming with Sharks as a “contemporary update of George Huang’s original film that both celebrates and skewers the Hollywood studio system”. In this adaptation, a young […]
Telia Carrier has announced that MobiTV, a global player in app-based TV video delivery solutions, will utilise Telia Carrier’s global IP backbone to provide scalable capacity and connectivity for MobiTV’s pay-TV operator customers across the US. With Telia Carrier’s substantial US network footprint, MobiTV customers can now get direct access to the MobiTV data centre […]
Cara Delevingne is set to executive produce and host an all-female practical joke series from ITV America’s Sirens Media, for Quibi – the short-form mobile content platform set to launch is April 2020. In each episode of the as-yet untitled show, Delevingne and a hist of female accomplices will “wreak havoc, executing a new stunt […]
EE’s data team looked into how fans used their mobiles to follow the home nations during the Rugby World Cup tournament. The early morning schedules, with games kicking off at 08:15, 09:00 and 11:00 for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals, drove spikes in mobile data on the EE network, as fans opted to watch on […]
Netflix has launched a new mobile plan for Malaysia. At RM17 (€3.65) per month, subscribers can watch all Netflix content in standard definition on one smartphone or tablet at a time. The mobile plan gives users access to all of Netflix’s entire local and international catalogue, with no ads, no-hassle cancellation, and Parental Controls to […]
Liftoff, a specialist in mobile app marketing and retargeting, has released its annual report on the state of mobile technology adoption in Japan with Adjust, experts in mobile measurement and fraud prevention. While streaming giants have yet to crack the country’s subscription market, the study reveals
ESPN and Quibi have reached an agreement for daily sports programming on the mobile-first platform when it launches in April 2020. As part of the new deal, ESPN will be the exclusive US multi-sport content provider for Quibi’s curated news and information programming, Daily Essentials. The new ESPN show, available only on Quibi, will feature […]
MOBITV, a global player in app-based TV video delivery solutions, has announced that Consolidated Communications has selected the MOBITV CONNECT Platform to power its new TV service, CCiTV, providing TV programming to customers in New England, US when they want, where they want, and how they want it. This new service will deliver content from […]
Cloud services for video provider Brightcove has published the Q2 Brightcove Global Video Index, a report that analyses hundreds of millions of recent data points to provide insights into how viewers are watching video content, which devices they are using, and what types of content they are consuming across these various devices. Mobile consumption surges […]
The average person will spend 100 minutes each day watching online video in 2021, up from 84 minutes this year, according to Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2019 report. That’s the equivalent of watching 25 continuous days of video in 2021. The amount of time people spend viewing online video has grown rapidly across the world, […]