The British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) – the trade body which represents the interests of publishers and rights-owners of pre-recorded filmed entertainment – has confirmed that multiplay telco and broadcaster BT has joined its ranks as a member with immediate effect. BT joins an array of other digital platforms in helping to shape and […]
CBS All Access, CBS’s direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand service, has launched in Canada, marking its first expansion into an international market. For C$5.99 (€3.82), CBS All Access will offer Canadian viewers more than 7,500 commercial-free episodes on demand, spanning full current seasons of select CBS series, entire previous seasons and classic shows, as well […]
Netflix and DreamWorks Animation Television have announced an upcoming Fast & Furious animated series, the first series in an expansion of their ongoing multi-year deal for original animated kids and family programming. Following Comcast-NBCUniversal’s acquisition of the animation studio, the relationship has been expanded to include a first look at DreamWorks Animation animated series based […]
Netflix has announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other considerations, $1.5 billion worth of senior notes through an offering to qualified institutional buyers. Netflix intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, which it says may include content acquisitions, production and development, capital expenditures, investments, working […]
SVoD operators Amazon and Netflix have joined with Columbia, Disney, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal City Studios, Universal Cable, Universal Television and Warner Bros to file a lawsuit against OTT service Set Broadcast, claiming it markets and sell subscriptions to Setvnow, a software application that is used as a tool for the mass infringement of […]
The OTT video market in Asia-Pacific (APAC) is crowded and led by regional OTT players, who provide a diverse set of content across multiple languages and genres at competitive price points. Against this back drop, OTT video platforms, content creators and telecom operators must collaborate to boost revenues and profits of their respective businesses, suggests […]
Simplestream, specialists in live and on-demand OTT services, has been chosen by NextUp to build its video streaming service dedicated initially to British stand-up comedy, with international ambitions. The SVoD service brings together dozens of stand-up specials from established and up-and-coming comedians – including Ed Bryne, Richard Herring, Lou Sanders, Simon Munnery and Tony Law. […]
In a further sign of the growing importance of the importance of sports rights to SVoD providers, Amazon Prime Video has been granted the exclusive live telecast rights to the US Open Tennis Championships in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. The five-year agreement, which begins with the 2018 US Open, will bring live […]
Online giant Amazon has revealed that it now has over 100 million global subscribers to its Prime service, which bundles free shipping and other shopping perks with video and music streaming services. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, revealed the subscription numbers in his annual letter to shareholders. It marks the first time Amazon has ever chosen […]
Spanish TV operator Atresmedia, owner of Antena 3 and La Sexta among other channels, has reached an agreement with streaming service Netflix to produce and distribute the TV series La casa de Papel. This is the first deal of this kind in Spain between a FTA operator and a pay TV service, opening the door […]