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India: OTTplay collborates with Amazon Prime

OTTplay Premium, India’s AI-powered OTT aggregator, has partnered with Amazon Prime to offer Prime Lite benefits to its customers. Amazon Prime Lite subscriptions will be available through OTTplay in two ways – through bundled offerings with OTTplay’s partner Internet Service Providers (ISPs) such as NetPlus, KCCL, NXT, Railtel, and more, making it even easier for […]

August 18, 2025

VideoElephant brings FAST Channels to Amazon Fire TV

VideoElephant, a provider of content and video solutions for channel owners, will bring its two FAST Channels, Travel Escapes and Real Crime Uncovered, to Amazon’s Fire TV Channels. In addition, as part of the deal, Amazon will run specially selected short-form VoD content from VideoElephant’s archive of millions of rights-cleared videos in the US. Viewers […]

August 18, 2025

Fallout Season 2 on Prime Video this December

Prime Video and Kilter Films have shared a first-look from Season 2 of Fallout. The new season will pick up in the aftermath of the debut season finale and take audiences along for a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas. Season 2 will premiere this December exclusively […]

August 18, 2025By Nik Roseveare

FilmRise short-form video on Amazon’s Fire TV channels in US

FilmRise, a Radial Entertainment company and US-based film and television studio and streaming network, has expanded its content offering to include short-form content curated from FilmRise’s library on Fire TV Channels, available via all Fire TV and Echo Show devices in the US. This launch marks the debut of FilmRise’s its library in short form. […]

August 15, 2025

Project Kuiper: 100+ broadband satellites orbiting

A much-delayed but ultimately successful launch by SpaceX of 24 Project Kuiper satellites on August 11th takes the total of Amazon craft launched to 102. This was the fourth launch, but there’s a long way to go. This mission (KF-02) saw the satellites separated from the rocket at an altitude of 289 miles (465 kilometers) […]

August 13, 2025

Analysis: SVoDs reduce scripted TV commissions

The number of Scripted TV Originals ordered for production by the top six global streamers – Apple, Amazon, Disney+, HBO MAX, Netflix, Paramount+ – in the first half of 2025 fell by 24 per cent year-on-year, down from 318 first-run and renewed titles, to just 242, according to insight from Ampere Analysis. The drop reflects […]

August 12, 2025

Report: US advertisers boosted TV spend in H1

Samba TV, a specialist in AI-driven media intelligence, has released its H1 2025 State of Advertising report revealing a clear signal of advertiser strength in the US with 68 per cent of the top 100 advertisers increasing their TV spend in the first half of the year, a clear sign of renewed confidence and momentum […]

August 7, 2025

Report: Anime key for retaining Gen Z streaming subs

As the streaming wars rage, with multiple prominent platforms battling for attention, the real battleground isn’t just for eyeballs – it’s for the hearts and wallets of the next generation of consumers. And for Gen Z, increasingly, that battle comes with subtitles, according to a report from Hub Intel. While legacy media scrambles – or […]

August 7, 2025

NBN Co signs Amazon Project Kuiper deal

NBN Co and Amazon have announced an agreement to deliver high-speed, wholesale fixed broadband to customers in parts of regional, rural and remote Australia via Project Kuiper’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite technology. Project Kuiper is Amazon’s satellite broadband business that will provide fast, reliable internet to customers around the world. Amazon is planning to […]

August 5, 2025

Amazon’s Kuiper readies next launches

Amazon’s Project Kuiper, its would-be broadband satellite rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink, is gearing up for its next launches. It has a new 100,000 square foot payload processing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida that is capable of preparing satellites for three near-simultaneous launch campaigns. The facility, when fully operational, will turn out 100 […]

July 29, 2025By Chris Forrester