Joyn, the streaming co-venture from ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery, has launched a premium option, branded Joyn Plus+, which is available to German viewers for a subscription fee of €6.99 a month. Joyn’s free service launched earlier this year offering some 50 live OTT channels and a VoD library of catch-up content. The premium version of Joyn […]
Huawei has agreed a deal to add the Filmin, the Spanish movies and TV series on-demand service to Huawei Video – becoming the first Spanish SVoD service to be available through the platform. Subscribers to Huawei Video are now able to add Filmin for €7.99 a month. Huawei Video is been available in Spain and […]
Netflix entered into a multi-year content distribution agreement with JTBC Content Hub, the content arm of South Korean media company JTBC. Starting in 2020, the partnership will allow Netflix to stream JTBC’s prime-time TV dramas across more than 190 countries. With the new deal, JTBC and Netflix will co-develop and showcase JTBC’s prime-time TV drama […]
Streaming service Netflix has become the second largest pay-TV platform in Spain, behind Movistar, with 3 million subscribers in the country, according to El Español. In just four years, Netflix has achieved significant pay-TV penetration, surpassing the combined subscriber numbers of Vodafone, Orange and Euskaltel. According to the CNMC, Movistar Plus has 4.1 million subscribers; […]
BT is in talks with Disney about bringing the studio’s direct-to-consumer service streaming service Disney+ to its BT TV platform, according to the Sunday Times. Such a move would be in line with the multiplay telco’s positioning of BT TV as a streaming ‘super aggregator’, allowing viewers to watch such platforms from one provider. BT […]
Starz, a Lionsgate company, has rolled out its new international StarzPlay app in the UK, Brazil, France, Germany and Mexico with plans to launch in an additional 20 countries in 2020. “Starz has experienced great success with the Starz app domestically, remaining ahead of the streaming curve with more than 5.6 million OTT customers to […]
Sky has partnered with Deaf production charity, the British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust, to produce their first on-demand collection with a broadcaster. Available immediately, with almost 100 episodes at launch, millions of people can now watch Sky content in British Sign Language from the BSL Zone on Sky Q and Sky+. The content, ranging across […]
Amazon has announced that The Test: A New Era for Australia’s Team, a new docuseries following the Australian Men’s Cricket Team, is coming to Amazon Prime Video. Picking up immediately after the ball tampering incident in South Africa that led to an outpouring of disappointment and shock around the world, The Test begins with the […]
New and existing BT TV customers who recontract can now sign up for Amazon Prime Video and receive the streaming service for six months at no extra cost via the Prime Video app on BT TV. Customers will receive their six months subscription in time for Prime Video’s first Premier League games this December. Prime […]
Aardman Studios, the celebrated British production house behind the likes of Wallace & Gromit and Shaun The Sheep, has ended a longstanding relationship with the BBC and is working on a new short movie exclusively for Netflix. The new movie – a 30 minute musical – is entitled Robin Robin and will tell the story […]