Netflix has been streaming 4K content since April 2014 and when actual 4K content was extremely thin on the ground. Happily there are now plenty of consumers with Ultra-HD (UHD) displays and last week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona saw one of its VP/interface innovation, Chris Jaffe, promise delegates that there would be plenty of […]
Amazon’s subscription video service could soon be launching in Australia, where it would directly take on Netflix, Presto and Stan in the country. The Australian Financial Review reports that Amazon wants to use the launch of its new motoring show with ex-Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May to give it big […]
As an entertainment category, online video is thriving, offering viewers massive amounts of content, highly targeted genres and sub-genres, and bite-sized formats making it easy to watch on the go—all of which has made the category immensely popular with the types of young consumers advertisers covet, according to Hub Entertainment Research. Hub’s recently-released study – […]
Although Apple’s iOS operating system still sees the bulk of TV Everywhere (TVE) authentications, analysis from Adobe Digital Index (ADI) shows TVE consumption slowly moving toward connected devices, such as Apple TV and Roku. According to ADI’s Q4 Digital Video Benchmark report, iOS share of TVE decreased 20 per cent year over year (YoY), while […]
Findings from IHS looking at consumer spend on movies and TV suggest a clear correlation between the launch of Netflix and a decline in video spending. The IHS Technology report – Did Netflix Kill the Physical Video Market? – notes that before Netflix launched its streaming service in the US in 2007, spending on buying […]
The latest update to Sky+ is designed to make it even easier for users to binge-watch their way through content on the Sky Box Sets service. The changes, Sky’s first software update of 2016, come as Sky Box Sets customers will get exclusive access to the full series of The Tunnel: Sabotage and Billions, the […]
TV advertising revenue in the UK totalled £5.27 billion (€6.76bn) in 2015, up 7.4 per cent on 2014, according to full year revenue figures provided to Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – by the UK commercial TV broadcasters. This is the sixth consecutive year that TV advertising revenue has […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel is planning to launch a TV streaming device in an effort to compete more effectively with OTT players such as Netflix. Any such initiative would pitch Foxtel against Telstra TV, the service owned by Foxtel’s 50 per cent shareholder Telstra. Foxtel’s other shareholder is Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (Twenty-First Century Fox, […]
Blue Skye Entertainment, a Blue Ant Media and Smithsonian Networks joint venture, has launched its new, direct-to-consumer Love Nature 4K SVoD service in 32 countries worldwide, including UK, Australia, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand and Switzerland. On Love Nature, subscribers will enjoy a robust library of documentaries, series, featured themes and exclusive natural history scenes updated […]
Canal+ Group and iROKO are launching the iroko+ SVoD service for French-speaking Africa. The Android app will be available across all of French Speaking Africa, bringing 1,500 hours of affordable, premium Nollywood & Télénovelas content to millions of Francophone entertainment fans. Available now on the GooglePlay store, iroko+ is free until June 1st and users […]