New attitudes toward TV viewing have been identified in a new report from Ericsson ConsumerLab, the fourth annual report looking at consumer trends in the TV area. Among the new findings, 72 per cent of respondents say they use mobile devices to watch video at least weekly, and 42 per cent of them do so […]
Amazon Studios, the original movie and series production arm of Amazon.com, today announced that it is greenlighting a pilot for the original children’s series Maker Shack Agency, produced by Electus Studios (The Hero, Killer Women, and Get Out Alive). Maker Shack Agency follows the exploits of 13-year-old inventor Angus Wolfe, aka “Wolfie,” and his two […]
Audiences are demanding “complex, smart stories” as they become accustomed to “bingeing” on box sets, according to actor Kevin Spacey. He told TV executives at the Edinburgh Television Festival: “The audience wants control. They want freedom… what they want, when they want it. If they want to binge then we should let them binge.” In […]
Analysis of UK TV viewing figures for the first half of 2013 shows how people’s TV diet is developing as on-demand TV viewing becomes a more established part of people’s lives. According to Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK, total average daily TV viewing in the UK during January-June 2013 was […]
Online video service Netflix has reached 1.5 million paying subscribers in the UK. Exclusive series such as The House of Cards and Arrested Development, as well as bought-in TV shows including the hit Breaking Bad, have helped the US-based company increase its paying UK audience to between 1.5 million and two million, according to a […]
The BBC’s iPlayer catch-up service recorded 242 million requests in July – up 38 per cent on the same time last year. Sport boosted live viewing and listening on BBC iPlayer thoughout July, with the proportion of live requests to TV and radio both up month-on-month to 15 per cent and 85 per cent respectively. […]
VoD service Viewster has revealed that Red Bull Media House will make its video content available through Viewster’s service. Viewers in the UK, Benelux, Germany and the Nordics will be able to watch action sports and culture content, produced by Red Bull Media House, on-demand. As with all Viewster titles, Red Bull Media House content […]
The content licensing deal between Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE), Lionsgate’s partner in Asia and one of Asia’s largest vertically integrated independent entertainment companies, and Youku Tudou, one of the leading Internet television companies in China, is off to a fast start as the highly-anticipated Lionsgate television series Orange is the New Black has generated nearly […]
Netflix is replacing its queuing system with “My List.” Outside the US, subscribers will notice the biggest change, as they will now be able to curate their own viewing lists instead of relying on just the search function or the service’s automatically generated genre lists. Michael Spiegelman, director of product innovation at Netflix, outlined how […]
NeuLion, an enabler and provider of live and on-demand content to Internet-connected devices, and Coliseum Sports Media has signed a multi-year partnership agreement that provides New Zealand football fans with the first official interactive destination to watch all 380 games of the Barclays Premier League both live and on-demand. Powered by the NeuLion Sports Platform, […]