World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has revealed in its Q4 2016 earnings release that its WWE Network SVoD service had 1.5 million paid subscribers as of January 31st 2017 – up from 1.41 million on the same period 12 months ago. Subscriber numbers break down to 1.1 million in the US and 400,000 internationally. WWE previously […]
Time Warner, which is in the middle of an acquisition by AT&T, saw an 11 per cent jump in revenue to $7.89 billion (€7.38bn) for the three months to the end of December as it reported gains at each of its three main divisions — Turner, Warner Bros and HBO. HBO’s SVoD service HBO Now […]
Amazon’s biggest visual production to date, The Grand Tour, starring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, shows clear appeal amongst UK SVoD viewers, according to market and consumer information firm GfK. The company’s established SVoD content tracking and analysis reveals how the show swept the board versus other titles viewed on Amazon. It drove […]
In providing a first look at some of the new original content coming to the service in 2017, at a special event in New York, Netflix has stressed its goal of creating an experience that consistently presents the right content to the right member at the right time. Noting that Internet TV knows no time […]
With Andrus Ansip, EC Vice-President in charge of the Digital Single Market, describing it as “a new important step” in breaking down barriers in the Digital Single Market, Europeans will soon be able fully to use their online subscriptions to films, sports events, e-books, video games or music services when travelling within the EU, following […]
Hit Tom Hardy drama Taboo and psychological thriller Apple Tree Yard will become the first of a new run of boxsets on BBC iPlayer. All episodes of each show will remain on iPlayer until the last episode is broadcast. The full series will then be available to watch as a boxset for 30 days. The […]
Starz has announced the successful launch of its Starz and Starz Encore services on the AT&T streaming service, DirecTV Now. Starz on DirecTV Now provides subscribers with access to a large premium TV and movie library for $8 a month. The initial launch will feature more than 2,500 episodes and movies. Starz features new and […]
Findings from an online consumer survey from digital platform security specialist Irdeto suggest that 87 per cent of Russian consumers polled believe that producing or sharing pirated video content is not against the law and 66 per cent think that streaming or downloading pirate content is also legal. This is in stark contrast to the […]
With Netflix series The Crown crowned Best Drama at the Golden Globe Awards, Roy Morgan Research reveals how many Australians have a subscription at home, how much commercial television they still watch, and why audience engagement will become the metric that matters for the broadcast networks. One in four Australian homes now have a Netflix […]
Premium on-demand video service FandangoNOW has struck a new relationship with HBO Home Entertainment to make HBO content available for purchase via digital download on FandangoNOW. Individual episodes and seasons of HBO content will join FandangoNOW’s collection of 40,000 new release and catalogue movies and TV shows. FandangoNOW is distributed on an install base of […]