Vodafone Spain has reached a deal with Sony Pictures and Paramount to broadcast their latest blockbuster movies in 4K. Subscribers to Vodafone will be able to watch the 4K movies on VoD, with the first available titles including Passengers, Trainspotting 2 and Smurfs: The Lost Village, among others. The Sony Pictures catalogue is composed of […]
Critical information, analytics and solutions specialist IHS Markit expects total consumer spending on home video in Western Europe to increase with a CAGR of 3.5 per cent per year, to reach €8.7 billion by 2020. The market demonstrated confident expansion over 2016 at 2.6 per cent, reaching €7.9 billion. The home video sector is defined […]
The Grand Tour was the VoD title with the most buzz in the quarter to March, according to the latest Global On Demand Report from Parrot Analytics. It is the first non-Netflix show to rate this way. Parrot analyses the demand for 30 recent popular US digital titles across 10 markets, based on the application […]
Netflix has announced its first Australian original series Tidelands, a supernatural crime drama that will debut exclusively on Netflix around the globe. Production will start in Queensland in 2018. The series is produced for Netflix by Brisbane-based Hoodlum Entertainment. The ten-episode first season will be written by creator Stephen M. Irwin (Secrets & Lies). Episodes […]
Apple is set to announce that Amazon Prime Video will be available on Apple TV at its annual developer’s conference, Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), next month. A stand-off has seen Amazon’s Prime Video long absent on the Apple TV platform, although there is a version available on both the iPhone and iPad. In exchange for […]
Netflix subscribers in Australia could soon see fees rise by as much as 20 per cent. According to reports, Netflix has been applying temporary increases to its plans that bump the cost of its basic service from A$8.99 a month to A$9.99, its standard service from A$11.99 a month to A$13.99 and its premium service […]
JustFlicks, a new SVoD service, has rolled out in South Africa, with its services costing R1 (€0.07) per day. JustFlicks is operated by STS – the company that took over the Vidi website when Times Media Group shut down its streaming service in the country last year. JustFlicks currently boasts over 1,000 hours of movies […]
Streaming giant Netflix has announced it will create 400 jobs at its new European customer service hub which opened this week in Amsterdam. Supporting customers across 11 European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden and the UK), the multilingual hub will employ initially a workforce of 170, growing to […]
Findings from analyst firm The Diffusion Group suggest that more than half of Cord Cutters cancelled their legacy pay-TV service in the two calendar years of 2015 and 2016. It says that remarkably, one-third of Cord Cutters cancelled service in 2016 alone. According to Michael Greeson, Co-Founder and Principal at The Diffusion Group (TDG), the […]
France Télévisions’ VoD and replay platform Pluzz has been replaced by france.tv, a service that merges all of the PSB online content, whether it is live, VoD, replay, or paid content. Replay content is now available 15 minutes after the first TV run, (reduced from four hours on the old service). The new platform will […]