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Amazon acquires NFL play-off game

Amazon has acquired the rights to stream one of two new NFL post-season Wild Card play-off games, set to launch in January 2021, on its Prime Video platform Amazon will stream the game live whilst is also airs on CBS and Nickelodeon in the US, according to reports. The game joins the 11 NFL Thursday […]

October 16, 2020

Amazon tops new UK SVoD sign-ups

Kantar, the data, insights and consulting company, has announced Q3 2020 results from its Entertainment On Demand service in the UK, the newest offering from Kantar to help entertainment industry and investors understand the full entertainment subscription service consumer journey. The service reveals the following consumer behaviours in the three months to September 2020: Amazon […]

October 15, 2020

Italy: Amazon set to score Champions League package

Amazon is reportedly set to acquire a significant Champions League package in Italy, where it will stream the games on its Prime Video platform. Amazon is set to pay €80 million per season to get the first pick of matches on Wednesday evenings – 17 games per season in total – for the 2021 to […]

October 15, 2020

Amazon Prime Video orders Yearly Departed comedy special

Amazon Prime Video will say so long to 2020 with the new comedy special Yearly Departed, a comedic memorial for a year that somehow still isn’t over yet, from Executive Producer Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), who will also appear. Hosted by multi-talented comedian Phoebe Robinson (2 Dope Queens), Yearly Departed will launch this winter exclusively on […]

October 15, 2020

Peacock leads US SVoD pick up

Comcast’s Peacock added more new subscribers than any other US VoD service during the third quarter, according to Kantar. Kantar also found that more consumers added one service while cancelling another. Kantar said 10 per cent of new subscriptions were the result of switching, up from 9 per cent in the second quarter. “Q3 saw […]

October 14, 2020

Research: AVoD set for meteoric rise in US

Research from Ampere Analysis has found that almost one in five US Internet users are accessing AVoD services. Based on Q3 2020 figures, 17 per cent of Internet users in the US used one or more AVoD service in the prior month, up from 13 per cent in Q3 2019. The rise of AVoD services […]

October 12, 2020

Five groups account for 65% of Italian TV offer

The five largest broadcasting groups present on the Italian market account for 216 TV channels out of 399, or 65 per cent of the total. Sky Italia is the biggest broadcaster in the terms of the number of channels (111), followed by Mediaset (38), Rai (27), Discovery Italia (24) and Fox Italia-Disney (16), according a […]

October 12, 2020From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Freeview Play on Amazon Fire TV Edition

Freeview Play is launching on selected Fire TV Edition TVs, thanks to a new agreement between Digital UK and Amazon. Freeview Play is home to over 85 channels and nine on-demand players; BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, My5, UKTV Play, CBS Catchup Channels UK, Horror Bites, STV Player and BBC Sounds. Freeview Play gives […]

October 12, 2020

Report: SVoD players should change mindset to reduce churn

TV subscription brands such as Amazon, Disney+, and Netflix are their own worst enemy when it comes to losing customers, according to a report launched by Singula Decisions, a specialist in subscriber intelligence. The findings highlight that while brands obsess about the problem of ‘churn’ they only have themselves to blame for customers cancelling their […]

October 9, 2020

Italy: Optimism for video entertainment market

Italy’s video entertainment market is poised for vigorous growth next year, despite a challenging 2020, according to a video insights report from Futuresource Consulting. This upsurge will be driven by SVoD entering a new growth phase, as only one in four Italian households will subscribe to an SVoD service by the end of 2020, providing […]

October 9, 2020