Amazon Prime Video has announced that fantasy series The Wheel of Time, based on the best-selling book series by Robert Jordan, will premiere on the streaming platform in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on November 19th. The show will launch with three episodes, with a new episode then available every following Friday, leading […]
Mux, the video platform for developers, has announced the availability of its Mux Video and Mux Data tools in AWS Marketplace – a digital catalogue with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) – making it simpler […]
The second quarter of 2021 has seen the first stall in the development of SVoD in France after a 2020 marked by a signification increase of SVoD market penetration. According to OTT figures released by NPA Conseil, SVoD’s rate of subscriptions to one service at least among French Internet users above 15 years old dipped […]
Kosmos and Enjoy Television acquired the rights to Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 in order to sublicence them to a TV channel or streaming service. The coverage started this past weekend with Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) taking on Remis, a game with particular interest as it saw Lionel Messi’s first appearance in a league other than […]
Amazon, in a formal letter to the FCC last week, has objected to SpaceX enhanced plan for almost 30,000 new Starlink satellites and their adjusted orbits. SpaceX, in two submissions, said it could offer a better service by adjusting the existing planned orbits. Amazon, which is developing its own low Earth orbiting system, Project Kuiper/Kuiper […]
In 2022, 48.9 per cent of households in Canada will have pay-TV, marking a massive and continuing trend of cable cord-cutting in the country, according to forecasts by eMarketer. As recently as 2015, more than 75 per cent of households in Canada – a total of 10.5 million – had pay-TV. That figure has been […]
Streaming services in Portugal such as Netflix, HBO Portugal, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video will have to pay an annual tax of 1 per cent on “relevant income” by April 30th every year, for the previous year. If it is not possible to ascertain the ‘relevant income’ of these platforms, the annual fee will be […]
Amazon Prime Video is launching UK Original comedy series Backstage with Katherine Ryan, which will be available exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories in 2022. This series, produced by Expectation, will introduce an all-new live comedy experience, blending world-class stand-up with behind-the-scenes access, in which Katherine Ryan will invite both the […]
Amazon Prime Video will launch its first ever UK TikTok Original series, Just So You Know, on August 26th. Spotlighting six LGBTQ+ TikTok creators, Just So You Know will see them write remarkable love letters to the love of their lives, confessing how they feel and exploring what love looks like in modern times. Featuring Tyreece Nye, DJ […]
As streaming services seek to create content which has international appeal, research from Kantar has compared UK adults’ genre preferences against global audiences. Among the findings uncovered: Brits enjoy being kept on the edge of their seats, citing drama as their TV genre of interest, much more than the global average (55 per cent vs […]