The Asia Video Industry Association’s (AVIA) OTT Summit – The Future of Video Streaming welcomed 900 delegates and featured over 80 industry experts and leaders across its four-day conference last week Opening the OTT Summit was the streaming analyst Matthew Ball, Managing Partner of Epyllion Industries, who presented a deep dive into the OTT industry […]
New NEXTGEN TV advertising, with a debut introduction in late 2020 on local television stations in the US, is resonating strongly with consumers, according to research from consultancy firm Magid. The marketing campaign promoting the digital television standard ATSC 3.0 – the so-called NEXTGEN TV – began in November 2020 and ran through the holiday […]
A robust line-up of international broadcast partnerships will help deliver the NTT Indycar Series to a growing global audience in 2021. A series of renewals and expanded broadcast and streaming relationships will bring the stars of North America’s premier open-wheel racing series to many markets across Europe, Asia and more. Existing and renewal partnerships will […]
The E.W. Scripps Company will soon launch its OTT news network Newsy over the air (OTA) as well – serving the free, growing OTA market of cord-cutting self-bundlers in the US. Newsy’s distribution OTA will make it the only American news television network with ubiquitous OTT and OTA distribution. At its launch on October 1st, […]
Findings from Leichtman Research Group indicate that 82 per cent of US households have at least one streaming video service from eleven top direct-to-consumer (DTC) and subscription video on-Demand (SVoD) services; 51 per cent of all households have three or more of these services. However, not all of these services are being paid for directly […]
Sony has confirmed that its Bravia Core service, which offers some of the latest film releases, blockbusters and classics from Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), is now included with Bravia XR TVs, enabling users to experience the content in Pure Stream, which it claims provides the highest in streaming picture quality Created in collaboration with SPE, […]
FUEL TV, the home of action sports, is now available on free streaming platform PLEX. FUEL TV provides an extensive catalogue of action sports including surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing and mountain biking. “We’re excited to be a part of the PLEX channels’ group,” stated Fernando Figueiredo, FUEL TV’s CEO. “For 17 years, we have been […]
Eastern Europe’s SVoD sector is finally taking off, prompted mainly by launches by global platforms such as Disney+ and HBO Max, according to the Eastern Europe OTT TV & Video Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research, who forecast 40 million SVoD subscriptions by 2026; up from 15 million at end-2020. From the 25 […]
The inaugural season of Extreme E, the new off-road electric race series, will be streamed live on DAZN in over 100 countries worldwide. DAZN will broadcast Extreme E in markets including France, Japan, South Africa, Poland, Scandinavia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Egypt and Portugal. The rights are non-exclusive. This deal runs for the duration of the […]
Amagi, a global leader in SaaS for broadcast and streaming TV on the cloud, has announced that ABS-CBN Corporation, Philippines’ leading media and entertainment organization, has partnered with Amagi to consolidate its operations on cloud to expand its reach and gain greater flexibility. ABS-CBN is the Philippines’ leading media and entertainment organization that is primarily […]