As the live sports streaming war heats up, NFL Sunday Ticket is up for grabs in the US as it is poised to leave DirecTV. Major players like Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+ are expected to be the front-runners for the package, reports The Streamable. While DirecTV struggled to turn Sunday Ticket into a […]

Kaltura, the Video Experience Cloud, has released a report titled Go With The Stream, a global survey of 200 streaming service provider executives. As the streaming market becomes hyper-competitive and consumers have more options than ever before, the report delves into how streaming providers are adapting to fast-changing technology and consumer expectations. Consumers today are […]

In the Nordics, the pay-TV landscape has changed considerably since the introduction of OTT services, reports Dataxis. The region was a testbed for some of the most popular streaming services when they first addressed the European market, with Netflix and HBO available there since 2012 already. Ten years later, it’s easy to see how the […]

Ahead of Disney+ Day on September 8th, Disney has announced that from September 8th at 5am through to September 19th, new and returning UK subscribers can get one month of Disney+ for £1.99. Disney+ stopped offering free trials back in summer 2020. A regular subscription now costs £7.99 in the UK. The Disney+ Day celebration […]

Netflix and Scen & Film (formerly Teaterförbundet, The Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film) have announced an extended partnership. Following the agreement on success based remuneration for Swedish Netflix Original Series in 2020, Netflix and Scen & Film have now agreed on a similar framework for films. This means that when a Swedish Netflix […]

BARB, the UK’s television audience measurement service, has commissioned an industry consultation on extending its reporting to include all television and television-like content on video-sharing platforms. BARB has reported programme audiences for SVoD services such as Disney+ and Netflix, and service-level viewing of video-sharing platforms such as TikTok and YouTube, since November 2021. It is […]

SkyShowtime has named David Urgell VP of distribution & partnerships. Urgell arrives from SVP of strategy, operations & business development at Paramount’s international streaming division, a role he had held since 2020 and meant he worked across Pluto TV and Paramount+, as well as SkyShowtime. Before that, Urgell had been SVP of business development & […]

SVoD service SkyShowtime will officially launch on September 20th, bringing its premium offering of exclusive entertainment to millions of homes across Europe. A joint venture of Comcast — parent company of NBCUniversal and Sky —  and Paramount Global, SkyShowtime will initially launch in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden before expanding into the Netherlands later in […]

Amazon has revealed that The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power attracted more than 25 million global viewers on its first day, breaking all previous records, marking the biggest premiere in the history of Prime Video. The series launched exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. “It is somehow fitting that Tolkien’s […]

Australian commercial TV contributes A$2.5 billion (€1.7bn) to the nation’s GDP and Australians value access to free TV services, according to a report commissioned by Free TV, the industry body for Australia’s commercial free-to-air broadcasters, conducted by Deloitte Access Economics. The report, Everybody Gets It: Revaluing the Economic and Social Benefits of Commercial TV in […]