Motor cycle racing’s premier category MotoGP is seeing its partnership with cloud-based video specialist Grabyo pay off as it uses social video and live streaming to grow the global community around the world championship, building its digital fan base to more than 22 million. “MotoGP is the oldest motorsport world championship but its digital strategy […]
In its latest Global Television Demand Report, Parrot Analytics, the television data analytics firm, focused on measuring global demand for content, features a four-country audience study focused on consumers’ propensity to subscribe to streaming video services in Brazil, Italy, the US and the UK. Parrot Analytics investigated consumers’ willingness to subscribe to up to four […]
Digital TV Research forecasts 9.99 million SVoD subscribers across 35 Sub-Saharan Africa countries by 2023, up from 1.56 million at end-2017. Although massive growth will take place, the Sub-Saharan Africa OTT TV & Video Forecasts report estimates that SVoD revenues will only be $775 million (€663m) by 2023 as some platforms are very cheap. South […]
ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery have revealed plans to build a local streaming platform in Germany by integrating 7TV, maxdome and Eurosport Player in one place. The OTT platform will offer a full entertainment package of live streams, an extensive media library with local content, the best from Hollywood, as well as high-quality sports content. The future […]
Findings from analyst firm Parks Associates’ OTT Video Market Tracker suggest that more than 85 per cent of millennials in US broadband households subscribe to at least one OTT video service. “Overall penetration of subscription OTT video services among millennials has topped out, suggesting that those households that want such a subscription already have one […]
YouTube has rolled out new monetisation and engagement features for users who upload content to its video-sharing website. Speaking at the VidCon 2018 conference in California, YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan revealed that the Google-owned streaming platform aims to help YouTubers monetise their content through means other than advertising. The first of these features […]
A total of 2.2 million individuals above 15 years old have connected to a SVoD service each day on average over the last six months, according to the barometer set up by advisory and research companies NPA Conseil and Harris Interactive. In early June, the level was even higher than the average observed since the […]
UK multiplay telco BT has become the first major UK pay-TV provider to offer Amazon Prime Video access via a set-top box – giving customers the ability to access Prime Video’s TV & movie content at the push of the button. The move – revealed by advanced-television in mid-May 2018 – forms part of BT’s […]
Hulu CEO Randy Freer, speaking to CNBC, has taken a subtle shot at rival Netflix regarding its incredibly high content spend. “I think money is a relative term. I think it’s how you spend that is really important. We are not going to make 800 shows next year, we’ll probably make 20 or 25,” he […]
Netflix has signed a multi-year content deal with the creative minds behind one of the most-watched non-English shows on Netflix, Dark. Under the terms of the deal, Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, who hail from Germany, will produce new series and projects exclusively for Netflix. Erik Barmack, Vice President of International Originals at Netflix, […]