Cloud delivery platform Akamai Technologies has released new research demonstrating how quality of video resolution and playback affects viewers’ engagement with and loyalty to OTT video streaming services. Conveyed through advanced biometric measurement tools including facial coding and skin conductance, the findings underscore the importance of delivering consistent, high-quality video across any OTT business model. […]
Netflix has added a new genre to its library of online content with the launch of “Interactive Storytelling” – shows that allow the viewer to choose what happens next in the story. Aimed at children, the first Interactive Storytelling title available immediately is Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale. A second standalone title Buddy […]
Amazon has been offering membership to its Prime Video OTT service for barely six months in India, and it has doubled its subscriber numbers in that time, and according to its Indian boss Nitesh Kripalani subscriber membership is growing “beyond our expectations”. In an interview with India’s Television Post Kripalani says customer sign-ups for Prime […]
Italian telecommunications operator Wind Tre has partnered with streaming giant Netflix. As a result, Netflix will be included with the Casa3 package for 90 days, along with the WebCube4 Wi-Fi router and a Google Chromecast device, eith no advance payment required. The Casa 3 package costs €15/month and includes 30 GB for 90 days and […]
Sky has launched its TVoD service Sky Store to subscribers in Germany and Austria. Sky Store offers a catalogue of movies directly after they’ve been shown in cinemas and up to two weeks ahead of their DVD/Blu-ray release. When customers purchase a digital version of a movie, they also receive the film on a DVD […]
Talking to daily Le Monde, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has claimed 1.5 million subs for his platform in France, adding he wanted to strengthen its library with more French content but not respecting local media release windows. Accordingly, Netflix would thus invest 40 per cent more in 2018 than in 2017 for French films and […]
IBB Consulting, consulting firm guiding business and technology innovation at the convergence of media, broadband, and mobility, has revealed its latest insights into the market for paid OTT or SVoD services. In a survey of 1,051 US online consumer adults that subscribe to at least one paid OTT service, IBB found that a majority of […]
According to PwC’s Global Entertainment & Media (E&M) Outlook 2017-2021 the UK’s E&M sector will grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3 per cent from 2017-2021 adding £10 billion (€11.4bn) to its value to the economy over five years. Overall, revenue will grow from £62 billion in 2016 to £72 billion by 2021 […]
Research from the Pay-TV Innovation Forum 2017 – a global research programme for senior pay-TV executives that examines the state of pay-TV innovations and strategies that will drive the next phase of growth for pay-TV operators – in TV, OTT and adjacent businesses, suggests that Latin America will see substantial pay-TV growth, driven by economic […]
Far from being a homogeneous whole, analyst firm TDG suggests that TV subscription streamers comprise four mutually-exclusive segments of profound importance to operators and networks. Approximately two-thirds of US adult broadband users now enjoy online subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) services on a home television. But their use of TV streaming is not the only factor that […]