At the Prime Video Presents showcase in London’s Leicester Square, the cast of The Boys, along with showrunner Eric Kripke, took to the stage to reveal what viewers can expect from the upcoming third season of the superhero drama, and why they feel the show has become such a huge success. Explaining where Season 3 […]
Amazon Freevee, the AVoD service formerly known as IMDb TV, is now available to watch on Apple TV, iPads and iPhones with the service available via a dedicated app from the App Store. Freevee previously announced that it will grow its Originals slate by 70 per pent in 2022, including the spinoff of the longest-running […]
Following the success of the first two seasons, sci-fi comedy series Upload has been renewed for a third season on Prime Video. Season Two premiered on March 11th, and has remained a Top 10 series on the service ever since. The series also landed on Nielsen’s Top 10 Originals list. Upload is a sci-fi comedy series from Emmy […]
The inaugural season of the pioneering Extreme E racing series has been captured in a new docu-series, set for release on Prime Video in the UK and Ireland this summer. Race for the Planet is a five-part series giving audiences a comprehensive look at Extreme E’s 2021 season and the climate change story that underpinned […]
Big Tech companies such as Google, Apple and Facebook-owner Meta will have to abide by new competition rules laid out by the UK government – or risk facing huge fines. The new Digital Markets Unit (DMU) regulator will be given powers to clamp down on “predatory practices” of some firms. The DMU will also have […]
A WARC analysis of advertising investment by eight major digital platforms has underlined the importance of ‘Big Tech’ to the health of the global ad economy. Advertising expenditure by Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Baidu, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix and Tencent in 2021 totalled $46.6 billion (€44.11bn), up 49.4 per cent year-on-year, accounting for 6 per cent of […]
Prime Video has announced three new reality series: The One That Got Away, Forever Summer: Hamptons and Cosmic Love – will all three set to premiere this summer. The new slate of reality shows will join Prime Video’s unscripted hits like Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, now streaming on Prime Video, and Making […]
BT’s Digital unit has agreed a deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of its drive to transform legacy infrastructure and internal applications to a new cloud-first architecture. The effort aims to help accelerate BT’s plans to build and innovate faster on a new suite of digital products and services and reduce costs in […]
At the Amazon presentation at NewFronts, Amazon Freevee (formerly IMDb TV) has announced an increased slate of premium Originals, with multiple pickups of scripted and unscripted content. The free streaming service greenlit a new cooking competition series called America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation, the coming-of-age drama Beyond Black Beauty, the family competition series Play-Doh […]
Netflix has slashed its subscriber fees for India. It has dropped the price of its basic subs rate in India by 60 per cent from 499 rupees (€6.20) to 199 rupees a month while reducing its higher tier plans by similar rates. There is also an even lower rate for its popular mobile/cellular plan targeting […]