The National Football League (NFL) has signed long-term agreements with media partners Amazon, CBS, ESPN/ABC, FOX, and NBC for the distribution of games over television and digital platforms, as well as additional media rights. With these agreements, the NFL has expanded its digital footprint to reach a broader audience while maintaining its commitment to keep […]
SVoD viewership on Samsung TVs grew by 35 per cent in 2020, according to the findings of a report, Decoding the on-demand TV landscape, from Samsung Ads Europe, the media and advertising division of Samsung Electronics. AVoD viewing time grew by 74 per cent – emerging as a key trend for advertisers to watch. The […]
Spanish pay-TV platform Movistar has added Atresmedia’s Atresplayer and Mediaset’s Mitele Plus to its line-up. Movistar’s four million subscribers will be able to have access to the premium OTT services via their respective apps in the platform and also through the STB search function. The integration agreement is a timely boost to the platforms in […]
Content piracy remains a persistent problem for rights holders and content providers to tackle, says Tony Maroulis, Principal Analyst at Ampere Analysis. In a blog post, Maroulis notes that incidence rates of certain forms of pirate service usage, such as torrents and locker sites, have declined over the past three years. “But a combination of […]
In December 2020, over 120 million people in the US streamed YouTube to their TV screens, according to a blog post from Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer at YouTube. Furthermore, eMarketer projects that more than 106 million US households will watch streaming content in 2021, eclipsing pay-TV. “Viewers are leaving behind traditional primetime, and we’re […]
Analyst firm Futuresource Consulting’s latest Living with Digital survey, in field in December 2020, has once again highlighted the continued upwards trajectory of digital video uptake in H2 2020, after an already impressive and partly pandemic-fuelled first half. The survey reported greater uptake across all types of video services covered. Transactional digital video continued its […]
The Walt Disney Company, ESPN and the National Hockey League (NHL) have reached what they describe as “a historic and innovative” seven-year television, streaming and media rights deal, taking the new partnership from the beginning of the 2021-22 season through the 2027-28 season. The agreement brings the NHL back to Disney and ESPN platforms and, […]
Crackle Plus, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company and an operator of AVoD networks, has announced an agreement to launch the Crackle app on Smart TVs and set-top boxes powered by Vewd, a provider of OTT and hybrid TV solutions. Shipping on almost 40 million connected TVs, set-top boxes, game consoles, and cars […]
NBCUniversal International (NBCUI) has announced that hayu, the all-reality SVoD service, is now available through Samsung Smart TVs. Reality TV enthusiasts in 27 territories can now watch reality content via the hayu app through Samsung’s in-built application portal. hayu offers over 8,000 episodes of top reality TV content. The service offers extensive choice, with a […]
Canela.TV one of the first AVoD streaming services for US Hispanics, has officially launched its app on VIZIO SmartCast, the smart TV platform. Canela.TV is now available to millions of SmartCast TV users in the U.S offering over 10,000 hours of entertainment for adults and children including comedies, docuseries, novelas, cartoons, dramas and action films. […]