Spanish TV group Atresmedia and Mexican TV company Televisa have signed an agreement to launch Novelas Nova, a SVoD service, on Atresmedia’s OTT platform, Atresplayer, devoted to TV soap operas (Telenovelas). The service will have over 5,000 hours of content becoming the largest TV soap opera offering in Spain with premieres like La Candidata, La […]
A study from Juniper Research found that increasing adoption of in-flight entertainment and connectivity systems by airlines and private aircraft operators will drive annual service revenues from an estimated $3.7 billion in 2018 to over $8.4 billion by 2023. The research found that systems installation by Low Cost Carriers is a driving force behind this […]
Parks Associates research finds nearly 40 per cent of US broadband households now have at least two OTT video service subscriptions. The research firm notes that consumers have reached a new stage in connected entertainment where OTT is a standard source of video and viewers are more willing to experiment with multiple OTT services. “Every product […]
Netflix suffered a global outage on June 11th; with subscribers unable to use the service for around 45 minutes. In a statement posted on Twitter just before 11pm (UK time), Netflix said: “We are aware of members having trouble streaming on all devices. We are investigating the issue and appreciate your patience.” Netflix’s status page […]
At the end of 2017, 18 per cent of all German households were subscribing to at least one SVoD service. The market appears to be on an unabated growth trajectory and the boom in the pay VoD market (SVoD, TVoD, EST) is seeing revenues soar through the roof. Total revenues at the end of 2017 […]
Three-quarters (76 per cent) of TV content viewers report subscribing to a traditional pay-TV—cable, satellite, or telco—service, down from 86 per cent in 2014, reveals the latest data from Horowitz Research’s State of Pay TV, OTT and SVOD. According to the study, just 71 per cent of 18-34 year-olds subscribe to a traditional pay-TV service, […]
Following the news that streaming giant Amazon is to become a player in live coverage of English Premier League football from the 2019/20 season onwards, a number of industry observers have shared their thoughts on the development with advanced—television.com. “While the immediate reaction will be to see this as a long-term threat to Sky (and […]
Although rumoured at an earlier stage to be among the bidders for the main packages of live rights to English Premier League football, Amazon has been successful in securing one of the secondary, 20-match packages that remained unsold when the successful bids were announced. BT, which already secured rights to 32 games, picked up a […]
Despite the abiding appeal of traditional linear TV, cinema, radio and offline games, many Internet users in France and Germany now devote a major part of their time to online entertainment. “Digital video viewing has grown steadily in France and Germany, but penetration still lags behind several other countries in Western Europe, including the UK […]
Research from content protection and data-analytics solutions specialist MUSO suggests that 83 per cent of UK users who consume pirated content try to find it legally first, and that those who access unlicensed music, film and TV are actually more likely to have subscription services such as Netflix or Spotify. In the survey of 1,000 […]