Channel 5 is launching its British preschool television programming brand, Milkshake! on Amazon Channels, within Prime Video. The service will be called More Milkshake! and is a first move into SVoD for Channel 5. For an additional £2.99 a month, Prime members in the UK will have unlimited, ad-free access to a wide range of […]
Netflix’s first global original motor series, Fastest Car, launches on April 6th. In each episode of Fastest Car, three souped-up ‘sleeper’ cars, tinkered with and lovingly laboured on, go head to head with one of the world’s most sought-after supercars. All episodes will be available at once. The would seem to be Netflix’ answer to […]
Legendary comedy group Monty Python is adding a number of its classic titles to Netflix in the UK and US. The slate includes the iconic films Monty Python & the Holy Grail and Monty Python’s Life of Brian, along with episodes from TV series Monty Python’s Flying Circus and a number of live specials. Content […]
NextUp, the stand-up comedy SVoD service has announced that, due to demand, its latest investment round size has doubled and is currently overfunding at 111 per cent via the online equity investing platform SyndicateRoom. In addition, NextUp has announced that Bruce Tuchman, the former president of AMC Global and Sundance Channel Global, will serve as […]
US consumers’ appetite for streaming video continues to grow, and they have no qualms shelling out cash for original content, according to Deloitte’s 12th edition of the Digital Media Trends Survey. The report found that 55 per cent of US households now subscribe to at least one video streaming service, a 450 per cent increase […]
Digital pay-TV subscriptions around the world, including cable, satellite and IPTV, exceeded one billion for the first time in 2017. This global growth comes despite the continued uptake of OTT subscription video services, like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video, which added more than three times the number of subscriptions than pay-TV last year, according […]
According to analysis by Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence, the Nordic market for SVoD video services has grown considerably over the last few years in both subscriptions and revenues, increasing its share of total consumer spend for subscription-based video entertainment from 18 per cent in 2016 to 22 per cent […]
Almost 2 out of 5 French Internet user have already used VoD or SVoD services, a steady increase according to Médiamétrie’s VoD360 study. Over the last 12 months, 13 per cent of the population indicated they had rented at least one video, and 20 per cent have used a SVoD service. SVoD’s primary strength lies […]
Internal documents obtained by Reuters have revealed insights into just how valuable Amazon’s original TV shows are to the online retail giant. Amazon attributed five million Prime subscriptions and renewals to its TV shows during the period between 2014 and early 2017, which equates to around one-quarter of total signups, according to analyst estimates. The […]
Tencent Video has announced its paid subscriptions reached 62.6 million as of the end of February 2018, which further enhanced its leading position as the largest online video platform in China. This demonstrated the platform’s rapid growth following its announcement of 43 million paid subscriptions by the end of September 2017, which made it the […]