Following the recent security breach, which saw hackers releasing all episodes of the forthcoming fifth season of Netflix’s hit series Orange is the New Black, data science company Parrot Analytics has tracked audience demand for the series in the US and around the world. Over a seven-day period, Parrot found there was a sharp increase […]
Global spending on consumer video media services will total $314 billion (€286bn) in 2017, a 4.2 per cent increase from 2016, according to research firm Gartner. Pay-TV services is the largest spending segment and is on pace to represent 90 per cent of the total market, totaling $282 billion in 2017. In 2017, emerging Asia/Pacific […]
US consumer spending on home entertainment was up slightly for the first quarter of 2017, reaching $4.7 billion, according to preliminary figures from trade body DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. Digital channels, especially Electronic Sell Through (EST), continued to see growth, while results for the physical business were affected by the fact that Easter – […]
The boom in smart phone and Internet penetration is transforming traditional television (TV) viewership patterns in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), creating a vast, fertile market for over-the-top (OTT) video services, according to Over-the-top (OTT) Video Services to Transform TV Viewing in Middle East and North Africa Forecast to 2021, a new report […]
According to research conducted by Dataxis, 2016 was the last year where the physical video market (DVD, Blu-ray rentals and sales) weighed more than the digital video market (SVoD, EST, TVoD) in Europe. SVoD will generate 70 per cen
Netflix has tapped into 5 million subscribers in Germany, taking a 20 per cent share of the OTT market, although Amazon Prime Video is still the market leader with a 47 per cent share. Netflix launched in the country in September 2014, where as Amazon Prime Video became available in February of the same year […]
Having revealed earlier in the week that it had signed a content licensing deal with iQiyi, the leading online video platform in China, Netflix has disclosed further details of the arrangement. The agreement covers a subset of Netflix original series such as Stranger Things and Black Mirror. “Though expectations of our deal are modest in […]
Netflix has raised its senior notes offering to €1.3 billion, upsizing the debt offering from a previously announced €1 billion. The streaming giant is offering the notes to investors outside of the US and said that it expects the sale to close on May 2nd. The notes will mature on May 15th 2027, unless earlier […]
Iflix, the SVoD service for emerging markets, announced the launch of its service in eight territories across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Consumers in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon, Egypt and Sudan can now sign up for a 30-day free trial, giving them unlimited access to thousands of TV shows, […]
Philippine multi-play operator PLDT is introducing the next generation of its TVolution streaming box for its customers. PLDT worked with streaming pioneer Roku to deliver to its customers a fully-proven solution that is easy to use and loaded with “great” content. “Filipinos will be the first in Asia to stream the best in entertainment using […]