Wuaki tv, the European movie and TV streaming service, announced significant growth in the UK, with more than 125,000 new users signing up to the streaming service since its launch by the end of September. Combined with Wuaki.tv’s Spanish user base, the new users have pushed the company’s total customer base to one million globally. Wuaki.tv […]
BBC iPlayer requests in November were up 27 per cent on 2012 to 263 million requests, making it the third biggest month on record (behind only January and March 2013 following last year’s Christmas boost) Mobile and tablet requests remained stable at 36 per cent of total requests, while computers delivered 38 per cent. The […]
Hulu has revealed it has topped 5 million subscribers and $1 billion in revenue in 2013. New CEO Mike Hopkins says the $1 billion revenue is an increase from $695 million the year before. Hulu says “living room viewing” accounts for more than half of the consumption from users. The app is available on several […]
The UGC curation service formerly known as Twitvid, has secured a $8 million B round of financing, and it’s using some of it to acquire the Dubai-based premium video startup Sha Sha – and is now using the team and its contracts to launch a video subscription service in the Middle East. Telly says it […]
MarketsandMarkets forecasts the VoD market to grow from $21.08 billion in 2013 to $45.25 billion in 2018, at a CAGR of 16.5 per cent during the forecast period. In terms of regions, North America is expected to be the biggest market in terms of revenue contribution, while Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Latin America (LA) are expected […]
According to global information company The NPD Group, big box-office titles, new releases, and franchise movies are the most streamed movie content on subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) services such as Netflix and Amazon Instant Video. Based on information from NPD’s SVoD Report, from January through October 2013, the three movies streamed most from SVoD services were: […]
Spain’s largest cable company ONO has launched an Internet TV service, branded ‘ONO TV online’, offering up to 40 TV channels and VoD content. Initially, the service is available on PCs and Apple Mac and iPad devices with plans to launch it on mobile phones and Android tablets in the near future. With this move, […]
iROKOtv, the Africa-based movie platform for Nigerian movies, has announced a funding round of $8 million, led by existing investor Tiger Global, with further participation from Sweden-based Kinnevik and introducing new investor to this round, US-based Rise Capital. This brings the total raised to $21 million. To-date, the capital raised by iROKOtv has been used […]
Norway’s largest Cable Operator, Canal Digital Kabel has selected Espial’s video delivery platform, Espial MediaBase, to power their advanced IP video services like video-on-demand and time-shift TV. Canal Digital Kabel has recently launched their T-WE service which will be rolled out nationally to over 400,000 digital cable subscriber households. “We have a distributed customer base, […]
Netflix and Sony Pictures Television have revealed that Better Call Saul, the highly-anticipated spin-off of Breaking Bad, will be available exclusively to streaming members in Europe and Latin America shortly after its airing in the US, beginning in 2014. In the US and Canada, the complete first series will be available to Netflix members after […]