FTI Consulting has found in a new consumer survey that tablet users in the US are not only ardent consumers of digital content but also are more willing to pay for online subscriptions. These results suggest that well-formulated digital media strategies may offer new revenue prospects to traditional media. In a study, FTI Consulting compares […]
Netflix, the Internet subscription service for TV shows and movies, has secured the rights for the North-American premiere of Tom Fontana’s Borgia series. The distributor Beta Film/Munich has confirmed that Borgia will be given its first US showing on the VoD provider, which has over 25 million subscribers in the US, Canada and Latin America. […]
LoveFilm and StudioCanal have signed an exclusive long-term deal in the UK and Germany giving LoveFilm members access to the portfolio of new and library movies from the international film distributor for a 12-month window. UK and German members of LoveFilm will be the first to instantly stream all of StudioCanal ‘s latest and future […]
A new report on UK cable operator Virgin Media’s prospects (from investment bankers Morgan Stanley) says that TiVo’s functionality will make life very hard for YouView or BSkyB. Virgin’s senior staffers say that their TiVo box, now rolling out to its customer base, will beat to the punch the UK’s digital terrestrial service YouView and […]
FilmFlex Movies, one of the largest movies-on-demand service providers in Europe, backed by joint venture partners Sony Pictures Television (a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company) and The Walt Disney Company EMEA, has confirmed the launch of a ‘download to rent’ option on Film4oD, Film4’s online film-on-demand service. Download to rent, which saves the movie to the […]
DreamWorks Animation, the company behind successful movie franchises such as Madagascar and Shrek, has agreed a deal to stream its films and television specials through Netflix, replacing an existing agreement with HBO, reports the New York Times. The deal is characterised by the companies as the first time a major Hollywood supplier has chosen Web […]
YouView has published its draft User Interface and Search Policy for consultation with industry, setting out how content will be presented to viewers in a way that makes it easy for them to discover. The policy also details YouView’s approach to allocating EPG positions to video on demand content providers in the YouView User Interface. […]
Amazon.com has revealed a licensing agreement with Fox that will allow Amazon Prime members to stream instantly a broad selection of popular movies and TV shows from the Fox library. This deal will bring the total number of Prime instant videos to more than 11,000 movies and TV shows later this fall. FOX titles available […]
Mexico’s Maxcom Telecomunicaciones is set to launch an online video and live television rental service using a technology that allows streaming with a very low broadband speed. The telco already offers phone and Internet services in Mexico, where it has around 100,000 broadband users, The service will pitch it into competition with Netflix’s recently-launched operation […]
Facebook has unveiled more partnerships with major media companies in what looks like a bid to transform the world’s biggest social network into a key entertainment hub. As reported here on Tuesday, Facebook will launch a real-time stream of what its users are watching and listening to online. The social network will introduce the […]