Research from Parks Associates finds over one-quarter of US broadband households are interested in innovative offerings accessed via television, such as offline viewing, video gaming, food delivery, ride sharing, and gambling. The research, found in 360 View: Video Services & Connected Consumers, also reveals that 25 per cent
Netflix boss Reed Hastings, in an interview with French news magazine L’Express, says that his streaming platform now has 6.7 million subscribers in France. Hastings disclosed that Netflix also plans to invest €100 million in 2020 in France in local productions. This decision follows the news earlier this week that the French government is finalising […]
Netflix and Bill Prady have agreed a first look deal for scripted series programming. Prady has penned scripts for a number of iconic television series including The Muppets, Married… With Children and Dharma & Greg. In 2007, Prady co-created the hit CBS series The Big Bang Theory with television veteran Chuck Lorre. He served as […]
The French Culture ministry wants streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon, to invest at least 25 per cent of revenues generated locally into the creation of French content. It is more than the 16 per cent previously planned. Minister Franck Riester has unveiled the first outlines for the upcoming production decree that will be […]
App Annie, the mobile data and analytics company helping brands and publishers win on mobile, has released The State of Mobile 2020 report. This annual appraisal provides insight into mobile’s expansive impact across industries and the global economy, highlighting publishers and brands that are outperforming their peers. Key findings in this report:
Channel 5 has announced the launch of two Endemol Shine Group channels on its VoD service, My5, as part of a continued expansion of third party content partnerships on the platform. Two genre based channels, Masters of Food and Reel Truth Crime, are now available on My5, adding 60 hours of specialist food and crime […]
Two months after Disney’s launch of its Disney+ SVoD service, Sensor Tower Store Intelligence data confirms that the service’s mobile app has now been downloaded nearly 41 million times across the App Store and Google Play and has generated an estimated $97.2 million in user spending. In a blog post, the app intelligence firm says […]
Netflix is facing accusations of funnelling as much as £330 million (€385m) in profits made from operations outside the US into offshore tax havens, while receiving relief for making shows such as Black Mirror and The Crown in the UK. Figures from the Taxwatch thinktank estimate that in 2018 the streaming giant moved between $327 […]
Pay-TV subscriptions in the US are expected to decline by 20 per cent by 2023 according to analysts at media research firm Broadcast Intelligence. As the SVoD market continues to grow, US pay-TV subscription declines will accelerate compared to the past decade, marking the continuation of an irreversible trend that is reshaping the US television […]
Several European countries experienced sizable gains across multiple services on December’s Netflix ISP Speed Index, a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience. The final month of 2019 saw upticks in Bolivia, Hungary and Poland. Bolivia had the largest increase as Entel jumped 0.73 Megabits per […]