Describing it as ‘a service truly fit for a queen’, BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, and ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, have launched BritBox, a new subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) streaming service – first revealed mid-December 2016 – with what it says is the most comprehensive collection of British television, across all genres, […]
Liberty Global and Zain, the Kuwait-based telecommunications operator, are investing in iflix, a Malaysian provider of streaming content. Liberty and Zain, along with existing shareholders Sky venture capital firm Catcha Group and Los Angeles-based merchant bank Evolution Media Capital, invested $90 million in iflix, the companies announced Tuesday. The companies did not disclose how much […]
Consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that 82 per cent of US TV households have a DVR, get Netflix, or VoD from a cable or telco provider — with 30 per cent of households using two of the services, and 14 per cent using all three. The survey also found that
Netflix has revealed strategic partnerships with Indian service providers Airtel, Videocon d2h and Vodafone. “India is one of the most important and vibrant countries in the world and we are delighted to be teaming up with three of its leading companies to make it much easier for consumers to enjoy Netflix,” Reed Hastings, Co-founder and […]
Icflix, the MENA streaming service, has formed a strategic partnership with Orange to bring original Icflix productions along with a vast collection of digital content that includes Jazwood (Arabic) blockbuster movies and TV series as well as Hollywood titles and Bollywood classics to Orange Egypt mobile customers. Orange Egypt mobile customers will gain access to […]
As Qantas rolls out nbn in the sky, passengers will also soon have access to Netflix, Spotify and Foxtel. Roy Morgan Research reveals how many Qantas flyers already subscribe to any of the three new in-flight entertainment providers—and how many could soon be tempted by a free trial. Nearly 4.3 million Australians aged 14+ (22 […]
Vodafone Spain is adding new content to its VoD services. The company is now distributing Fox Play, created by Fox Network Group, on its VoD offering, available to all its subscribers with convergent packages, along with Netflix and HBO. Vodafone subscribers will be able to watch series including The Walking Dead, Legacy and Hawaii 5.0 […]
Nearly 2 in 5 Kiwis now have SVoD – and 1 in 10 already have at least two services in the home, Over a million New Zealanders now have Netflix—but Lightbox is the faster growing SVoD provider in the country, Roy Morgan Research shows. By the end of 2016, an estimated 1,066,000 New Zealanders aged […]
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has suggested that with increasing competition in the online entertainment marketplace, all content consumed will be on the Internet, with Netflix representing a small slice of that. Hastings made his assertion during a keynote session at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in conversation with BBC reporter Francine Stock. “The way that […]
Amazon Prime Video has become the exclusive US home for the second season of mystery-thriller Fortitude following the closure of cablenet Pivot, which coproduced the first run. Fortitude, which will be billed as an Amazon original series in the US, is produced for Sky by Fifty Fathoms. The first season, which premiered on Sky Atlantic […]