Apple has unveiled its all-new App Store, designed from the ground up to make discovering apps and games as easy as possible. The company says the redesigned App Store is “packed with original stories and editorial, updated daily in a new Today tab, as well as new Games and Apps tabs. Compelling stories, in-depth interviews, […]
Digital TV Research forecasts that Netflix will have 128 million subscribers by 2022, up by 44 per cent from 89 million at end-2016. The Netflix Forecasts report estimates that the number of international subscribers will exceed US ones by early 2018. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, said:
Australia’s Government has announced a comprehensive package of reforms that it says will improve the sustainability of Australia’s free-to-air broadcasting sector, protect children from exposure to gambling advertising and support the creation of high quality Australian content. Other elements of the package include adjustments to the ‘anti-siphoning’ regime, aimed at giving free-to-air broadcasters a chance […]
The time has come for Australian media and entertainment companies to make ‘frenemies’ by collaborating and partnering with rivals to achieve growth, with the strong headwinds facing traditional media players set to continue through to 2021, according to a PwC report. PwC’s 16th annual Australian Entertainment & Media Outlook shows that total consumer and advertising […]
Amazon has announced an exclusive long-term content deal with Warner Bros International Television Distribution which brings the biggest, latest and most popular movies and TV shows from the Warner Bros repertoire to Amazon Prime members in India. Amazon Prime Video will now be the exclusive subscription screening home to some of the latest movies like […]
Netflix has cancelled sci-fi drama Sense8 after two seasons. The news comes just a week after the axing of another high-profile show – Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down. Sense8, a high-concept drama from the Wachowskis siblings – creators of The Matrix – was launched in 2015. A second season was launched on the streaming service […]
Interviewed on CNBC to coincide with the seasonal launch of House of Cards, Netflix Founder and CEO Reed Hastings has described the Trump administration’s proposed repeal of the FCC’s ‘Open Internet’ network neutrality rules as “unfortunate”, accepting that it was probably going to happen, but that it wouldn’t be a big deal. Responding to suggestions […]
iflix, the SVoD service for emerging markets, has announced the establishment of iflix Africa to bring its service to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). iflix Africa will be headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa and trade commercially as ‘iflix’. With launches planned in Nigeria, Ghana Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, iflix Africa will increase iflix’s global footprint to […]
Martin Olson, an analyst with investment bank Piper Jaffray, has suggested that Wall Street is underestimating the success Netflix will have overseas, with predictions of international margin and penetration levels overly conservative, and that, by 2020, there is potential for market penetration higher than current estimates. In a note to clients,
Amazon has agreed a deal to bring Steven Soderbergh’s newest film to Prime Video customers during its exclusive first-run streaming window. Logan Lucky will hit cinemas on August 18th and is expected to be released on Prime Video during the first quarter of 2018. Additionally, Amazon has signed an exclusive two-year first-look deal with Fingerprint […]