Communications company and sports and news-focused live TV streaming service fuboTV have agreed a video streaming distribution and technology partnership that they say advances how content can be delivered and consumed in-flight. The partnership claims to be the first to leverage technology standards from the global technical association, the Streaming Video Alliance, and apply them […]
Following the results announcement that exceeded even Disney’s expectations, analyst firm Digital TV Research has upgraded its forecasts for Disney+. Disney+ will be the biggest SVoD winner over the next five years. Disney+ will add 105 million paying subscribers between end-2019 and 2025 to take its total to 126 million. Disney+ will reach 53 per […]
WWE has reported that Q4 revenues increased 18 per cent to $322.8 million (€294m) – the highest quarterly revenue in the company’s history. Full year revenues reached $960.4 million – also a company record. SmackDown, one of the company’s weekly flagship TV shows, successfully transitioned to FOX Broadcast in the US during Q4, where viewership […]
DRM technology specialist Intertrust and content protection service provider Friend MTS are extending their partnership agreement that enhances Intertrust’s ExpressPlay content protection platform with Friend MTS anti-piracy and watermarking technology services. Now, an additional layer of protection is introduced that is complementary to the ExpressPlay content security suite, which features ExpressPlay DRM and ExpressPlay XCA. […]
With more and more major film and television brands joining the band of VoD-streaming platforms and launching their own services, Disney+, in particular, is expected to ignite further competition, suggests the Goldmedia research and consulting group. Up to 7.6 million consumers in the UK are already indicating that they want to use Disney+ when it […]
Disney has reported that 28.6 million people have signed up for its Disney+ SVoD service since it went live in November 2019. “The launch of Disney+ has been enormously successful, exceeding even our greatest expectations,” Disney boss Bob Iger said on a call with analysts after the release of the company’s Q1 earnings. Disney+ is […]
The UK Government has opened a public consultation on whether it should proceed with the decriminalisation of TV licence evasion by replacing the criminal sanction with an alternative civil enforcement scheme. The Government believes that it is right to look again at decriminalising TV licence evasion in order to ensure a proportionate and fair approach […]
Conviva, a specialist in global streaming media intelligence, has released its quarterly State of Streaming report for Q4 2019, revealing streaming viewing continues to climb – up 58 per cent year over year – as consumers are motivated by new streaming services like Disney+ and Apple TV+ and the convenience of on demand versus live […]
Seinfeld, the celebrated US sitcom, will be available to stream on AVoD platform All 4 from February 7th, as part of a streaming deal with Sony Pictures Television (SPT). Originally airing between 1989 to 1998, Seinfeld stars Jerry Seinfeld as a stand-up comedian whose life in New York City is made even more chaotic by […]
SVoD services are often credited with driving seismic shifts in the economics of the TV industry. But they are also causing subtler changes in how consumers watch TV – and are leading to a steady decline in the importance of TV as a social occasion. Consumer research from Ampere Analysis has found