Virgin Media has announced Good Behavior, as its latest TV exclusive. The TNT original series sees award-winning actress Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey) in the lead role. The new series consists of 10 one-hour long episodes, with the first six episodes launching on Virgin TV on demand from September 11th, and a new episode released every […]
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) is set to launch an SVoD service in the Nordics that will offer the first pay TV window to sibling Paramount Pictures’ new movies plus shows from its networks. The service, branded Paramount+, will also offer over 800 episodes of popular TV content from Viacom-owned networks, including South Park, Teen Mom […]
Younger viewers in the US think they’re paying too much for streaming services — but they’re still willing to sign up if they want to watch a particular show. That could be good news for the Walt Disney Company, which earlier this month said it would launch ESPN-and Disney-branded streaming services, pulling some of its own programmes from […]
Iliad-owned telco Free has been holding a 20 per cent stake in Canal+’s SVoD service Canalplay since 2016, having exercised a share acquisition option, according to weekly magazine L’Express. The French operator discreetly took up the shares it held the rights to following the sale of its Free Home Video service to Canal+ in 2011. […]
A study from GfK shows that Netflix was used by 3,942,000 people via a mobile, tablet or computer in the Netherlands in July – meaning approximately 27.5 per cent of the country’s population aged 13 and over have access to the SVoD service through a “non-TV” device. Netflix total reach is greater than that of […]
Revenues from OTT TV episodes and movies for 19 Latin American countries will reach $4.6 billion (€3.91bn) in 2022; up from the $1.87 billion recorded in 2016, according to Digital TV Research. According to the firm, SVoD will remain the region’s largest OTT revenue source; contributing $2.86 billion by 2022 (62 per cent of the […]
Google has announced that its YouTube TV is now available in 50 per cent of US homes, thanks to a rollout to 14 new markets. The company has revealed it also plans to move into 17 more major metros in the weeks ahead, as it continues its march towards nationwide coverage. YouTube TV costs $35 […]
Discovery Communications has struck a streaming deal in Germany and Austria with Amazon that brings Amazon Prime members access to Eurosport’s premium live HD sports content, including exclusive Bundesliga live on Friday nights across Germany. Eurosport goes live on Amazon Channels on August 16th 2017. In what the broadcaster describes as “a fantastic deal for […]
According to analyst firm The Diffusion Group (TDG), although virtual pay-TV services are immature and years away from ‘five-9’ reliability, subscribers overwhelmingly consider service value to be very solid. In TDG’s Q2 Benchmarking the Connected Consumer project – a survey of more than 2,000 US adult broadband users – less than 5 per cent of […]
According to Patrick Grove, co-founder and chairman of VoD platform iFlix, the service’s main competitor is not traditional television, but piracy. Speaking on CNBC’s Managing Asia, Grove said