Apple is set to launch its new streaming service Apple TV+ in more than 100 countries around the world on November 1st. In Sweden, interest for the service is already high among consumers, reports analysis and consultancy firm Mediavision. The service is attractively priced at 59 SEK per month (€5.45), corresponding to about half the […]
Hub’s Conquering Content study has measured subscription likelihood for four upcoming TV streaming services: Disney+ and Apple TV+ (both launching November), HBO Max and NBC’s Peacock (both slated for 2020). Highlights from the study: 1) Consumers are more likely to have heard of Disney+ than the other upcoming services.
The average consumer now spends an estimated 30.73 hours per week on digital entertainment, reports MIDiA Research, an analysis, data and research company. This works out to approximately 4.5 hours per day. Allocating eight hours of work and seven hours of sleep, consumers then have about 4.5 hours per day left to do things like […]
The Spanish video entertainment market is continuing to show impressive growth overall, with consumer spend set to exceed €3 billion in 2019 for the first time, helped by an improving economic environment as well as rapid modernisation of digital infrastructure. Growth is primarily bring driven by subscription uptake across both pay-TV and SVoD services, whilst […]
True Royalty TV, the SVoD service for Royal Family fans, is leveraging Vimeo’s OTT technology to accelerate its direct-to-consumer business. Vimeo now powers True Royalty TV in all markets, including the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The announcement was made today by Gregor Angus, CEO of True Royalty TV. Vimeo, the online […]
John Stankey, the COO of AT&T, has announced that the US telco giant will be giving HBO Max for free to existing subscribers when the SVoD service launches in spring 2020. The news comes on the heels of Apple offering its own Apple TV+ service free for a year to anyone who buys a new […]
WarnerMedia has reached an agreement to buy Ole Communications’ minority stake in HBO Ole Partners, the joint venture between WarnerMedia and Ole Communications. When the transaction closes, WarnerMedia will own 100 per cent of all HBO, MAX, Cinemax and HBO Go services in Spanish-speaking Latin America and the Caribbean. The ownership structure of HBO Brasil […]
UK viewers will be able to experience the BBC’s latest landmark natural history series Seven Worlds, One Planet in Ultra High Definition (UHD) and High Dynamic Range on BBC iPlayer, both live and on-demand. Beginning this Sunday October 27th in Antarctica, the series will explore the stories of each of Earth’s seven spectacular continents and […]
Multichannel programmer Discovery and pay—TV operator Cyfrowy Polsat have signed a joint venture agreement to create a video streaming platform which will operate in Poland and international markets. The new OTT service will give viewers a single destination to access the best of Polish content including movies, series, documentaries, sports and entertainment. The new service […]
Research by Ampere Analysis reveals that the growth of streaming services has intensified competition across the TV landscape driving an upsurge in content spend. Ampere found that global spend on TV, film and sports content expanded from $100 billion (€89.91bn) to $165 billion between 2008 and 2018 – a 65 per cent increase. Nearly $50 […]