Bitmovin, a provider of video streaming infrastructure, has announced that Bitmovin Analytics will offer playback health analytics to complement the existing analytics available with Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS). Amazon IVS is a managed live streaming solution from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes it easy to build engaging live streams and interactive video […]
Amazon Freevee has officially picked up the documentary The Moment: How Sports Changed the World. An archival documentary, The Moment highlights the success of the South African national rugby team in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. With apartheid behind them and the nation in the midst of a transitional government led by Nelson Mandela, sport emerged as a unifying tool in a country that was profoundly divided […]
France Channel, the French SVoD platform dedicated to the promotion of French films and TV works in the US, has joined pay-offering Prime Video Channels. As a result, the service created in 2021 and run by Julien Verley, is planning to launch a new multi-million fundraising campaign within the next six to twelve months to […]
Advertising budgets are under increasing scrutiny and rapidly-changing retail conditions are demanding improved solutions for justifying and optimising marketing investments. A focus on evidence-based planning and durable measurement solutions is driving a return to Marketing Mix Modelling (MMM). The availability of more accurate, timely and relevant ‘always-on’ data is now being utilised to advance analysis, […]
Netflix accounted for 19.7 per cent of French Internet traffic in 2022 according to comms regulator Arcep’s annual report on the State of the Internet in France. The breakdown by origin of traffic to customers shows that the top five companies also include Google, Akamai, Meta and Amazon and represent 54 per cent of traffic. […]
Spanish TV group Atresmedia and streaming platform Prime Video has reached an agreement to integrate OTT service Atresplayer Premium Familiar into Prime Video’s TV channels line-up. Atresplayer Premium Familiar is now available to all Amazon Prime subscribers for an additional €7.99 a month and offers TV series including Veneno, Los Protegidos (pictured), Cristo Rey, Drag […]
Kalvin Phillips: The Road to City, a NEO Studios production, debuts exclusively on Prime Video globally on July 19th. Incorporating 12-months of filming, the single one-off documentary follows Phillips from his early start in Leeds Academy, to reaching the dizzy heights of the Premier League and the FIFA World Cup, to transferring to Manchester City […]
The UK House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee is to question representatives of streaming and on-demand TV and audio services as part of the Committee’s continuing scrutiny of the draft Media Bill. The first panel, featuring Amazon, Netflix and Sky, will focus partly on the obligations imposed on services by the proposed Video-on-Demand Code. The […]
Data from Amazon reveals that it is one of the leading contributors across the breadth of the UK creative industries. Analysis from independent macroeconomic consultancy Capital Economics shows that Amazon’s investments in the creative industries supported more than 16,000 jobs in 2022, ranging from directly employed in-house designers to indirectly employed external producers, and Amazon […]
Amazon Freevee has announced that new episodes of Neighbours will debut on the AVoD service in September – and a new family will be coming to Ramsay Street: the Varga-Murphys, featuring mums, Remi and Cara, and their teenage sons, JJ and Dex. Sara West, who plays Cara Varga-Murphy, commented: “I’m so honoured to be a […]