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M3, XroadMedia team for personalised OTT service in Russia

M3, part of the National Media Group (NMG) holding, provider of online cinema services such as more.tv and CTC as well as the group’s TV channels online appearance, has selected XroadMedia, leading specialists in building innovative and ground-breaking content discovery and personalisation solutions, to enable advanced content discovery, recommendations and personalisation in their more.tv service. […]

November 18, 2021

Rakuten launches 21 new channels in Spain, Italy, France

Rakuten TV, the European VoD platform, has announced the launch of 21 new channels across Spain, Italy, and France as part of ongoing expansion plans across key territories. The new additions will offer a variety of entertainment across lifestyle, nature, film, animation, music, and culture.  All the channels are either available immediately or set to […]

November 18, 2021

VEVO launches Christmas services

Music video network Vevo has launched a number of holiday-themed channels on connected TVs (CTV) in the US and UK, available through New Year’s Eve. Vevo’s largest holiday TV lineup to date features carefully curated, 24-hour linear programming ranging from traditional Christmas music, such as Silent Night and O Holy Night, to family classics, such […]

November 18, 2021

24i powers Cinessance launch in US, Canada

24i, the streaming expert, has supported OTT service Cinessance to launch in the US and Canada, bringing a catalogue of classic and modern movies to fans of French culture and cinema. The French-film streaming platform offers consumers a curated catalogue of classic and modern movies with subtitles in French and English for $6.99/month as well […]

November 18, 2021

Forecast: Disney+ subs to pass Netflix in 2027

Five major US-based platforms will control 53 per cent of the world’s 1.7 billion SVoD subscriptions by 2026, according to the SVOD Platform Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. That equates to a collective 910 million subscriptions by 2026; up from 585 million in 2021. Netflix will remain the largest player, adding 53 […]

November 17, 2021

Netflix reveals weekly Top 10

Netflix has launched ‘Top 10 on Netflix’ — a new website with weekly global and country lists of the most popular titles on the streaming service. In a blog post, Pablo Perez De Rosso VP of Content Strategy, Planning & Analysis at Netflix, explained: “We will publish our new weekly Top 10 on Netflix every […]

November 17, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Data: 56% Brits watch SVoD content each week

The take-up of SVoD continues to soar, with 56 per cent of Brits now viewing these services each week, according to  post lockdown 2021 IPA TouchPoints data. The IPA TouchPoints dataset, which provides a 360-degree understanding of British consumers’ daily lives, reveals that since 2018 to post lockdown 2021, the reach of SVoD services (including […]

November 17, 2021

Forecast: Sole SVoD subs increasingly rare in 2022

Kantar believes the video streaming subscription model is losing its power to drive long-term growth. The prediction is part of its latest Media Trends report. Kantar forecasts that the fight for audience numbers will drive a further diversification of business models in 2022, with a sole subscription offer becoming scarce. This will also be informed […]

November 17, 2021

$31m piracy penalty for ChitramTV

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas has entered a Judgment and Injunction against ChitramTV, a popular South Asian pirate IPTV service. The Court found that ChitramTV wilfully infringed 207 registered copyrighted works and imposed the maximum statutory penalty of $150,000 (€132,567) per work, $31,050,000 in total. The Federal Court in […]

November 17, 2021By Colin Mann

Whip Watch Report: Lucifer tops streaming originals in Germany

Netflix’s Lucifer leads the Whip Watch Report of streaming originals among German viewers for the week of November 8th – 14th. The Whip Watch Report ranks the most viewed series originating from SVoD platforms in the past week. Second on the list is You, followed by the third and final season of Narcos: Mexico which […]

November 17, 2021