CosmoBlue Media, the global entertainment company, has announced the acquisition of YouLook.tv as its primary AVuD brand. YouLook.tv will now encompass all of CosmoBlue Media’s AVoD and FAST services, reinforcing its position in the rapidly growing ad-supported streaming market, particularly in the Nordics and internationally. Financial terms were not disclosed. YouLook.tv has successfully launched multiple […]
Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS) has announced the launch of Comcast MediaExpress, a centralised VoD management and distribution service for content providers. Comcast MediaExpress enables content owners to distribute their VoD entertainment titles into the top OTT, pay-TV and social platforms through delivery centrally managed by CTS. Backed by the scale of CTS, content owners can […]
BBC Studios has renewed and expanded its partnership with Movistar Plus+ in Spain. The new agreement will see BBC Studios increase its content offering in the market with the debut of multi-genre VoD service, BBC Player, the launch of additional FAST channels, and a recommitment to natural history and BBC Earth content acquisitions. BBC Studios […]
Fans in the UK and Ireland will be able to watch every race of the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship season as well as every game of the Australian Football League (AFL) on TNT Sports and discovery+ through new rights deals. TNT Sports is set to show two of Australia’s biggest sports in 2025, becoming the […]
Netgem has announced a collaboration with FIFA+, the official streaming platform of FIFA. The partnership brings access to free football content to Netgem TV viewers across Europe via their telcos’ TV services, starting with the UK and Ireland this February, followed by France and other regions in the near future. Netgem users in the UK […]
Data drawn from Kantar Media’s annual international TGI Global Quick View report, covering 37 countries and more than 80,000 respondents (from 2021 to 2025), reveals that the proportion of adults globally who say that nearly all of their TV/video watching is through TV channels has fallen from 12 per cent in 2021 to 7 per […]
JioStar, the recently formed JV with the merger of Viacom18 and Star India, has announced the launch of JioHotstar, bringing together JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar – two of India’s leading streaming platforms. This coming together of brands creates a platform with close to 300,000 hours of entertainment, a wide array of live sports, and more […]
Western Europe hit a record volume of Crime & Thriller production orders from leading global streaming platforms in 2024, reaching 94 titles. That’s equivalent to a 43 per cent share of all commissions by major streamers in the genre, more than the North American (NAM) and Asia Pacific (APAC) regions combined. The main beneficiary has […]
Apple and Netflix appear to have forged a partnership that will finally integrate Netflix content into the Apple TV app’s unified watchlist. The Apple TV app has aimed to be a central hub for managing streaming content, the flagship feature, is the ‘Up Next’ queue, aggregating shows and movies from various supported services. However, one […]
Disney+ has announced that Searchlight Pictures’ O’Dessa, written and directed by Geremy Jasper, will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+ in the UK and Ireland on March 13th. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, O’Dessa is an original rock opera about a farm girl on an epic quest to recover a cherished family heirloom. Her journey […]