Netflix saw its share price rocket 11 per cent on July 17th to an all-time high of $179 (€155) at one point, helped by impressive subscriber numbers. Netflix told the market that it had brought in a Q2 record of 5.2 million net new subscribers globally, up from 99 million at the end of Q1 […]
Movie and TV series streaming service Wuaki, owned by the Japanese company Rakuten, has been rebranded as Rakuten TV coinciding with the start of a four-year sponsorship deal with the Barcelona football team. Rakuten.tv currently has around five million registered users across 12 countries, of which approximately 40 per cent are in Spain. Ratuken has […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel has issued an apology after what it described as “technical issues” caused its online and on demand services to crash during the much-awaited Season 7 Game of Thrones premiere. Amid much negative social media chatter, Foxtel issued the following statement, which suggested that the technical problems were more widespread than just […]
Premium online video services have started to gain traction in Asia Pacific but have a long way to go before achieving mass adoption, according to a new report from independent consulting and research provider Media Partners Asia (MPA). MPA, in partnership with consumer research specialist BDRC Continental, has surveyed more than 15,000 Internet users across […]
Game of Thrones, perhaps unsurprisingly, pulled in record viewing numbers for HBO in the US on Sunday night. Some 16.1 million HBO subscribers watched the first episode of season 7 – the show’s penultimate season – with 10.1 million of those viewing traditionally and the rest coming from DVR and streaming. That puts the audience […]
Qwest TV brings together two generations of committed music lovers who share a single passion: jazz. This joint Franco-American collaboration between the legendary Quincy Jones and Reza Ackbaraly has given birth an SVoD platform dedicated to jazz and jazz-inspired music forms. Launching in the US autumn 2017, subscribers to Qwest TV will choose when and […]
Middle East & North Africa OTT TV episodes and movies will generate revenues of $1.75 billion (€1.53bn) by 2022; more than quadruple the $428 million recorded in 2016, according to a report from Digital TV Research. According to the Middle East and North Africa OTT TV & Video Forecasts report, SVoD’s dominance
Netflix is partnering with Spain’s Zeta Audiovisual to develop and produce its second Spanish original series, Elite, currently slated for a global release in in 2019. The move comes following the success of the streaming giant’s first Spanish original, Las chicas del cable, which was released in April. Elite will tell a murder-mystery tale set […]
Scandal’s Olivia Pope had better watch her back, because House of Cards’ Frank Underwood is coming for her, warns consultancy firm Solutions Research Group, noting that ‘must-see’ TV is giving way to ‘much-stream’ TV, with Americans increasingly likely to name streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video among their most valued entertainment […]
According to findings from market research and consulting company Parks Associates, 59 per cent of US broadband households subscribe to Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu. The firm’s OTT Video Market Tracker service notes that only 6 per cent of US broadband households subscribe to any other OTT service without also having a subscription to one of […]