Amazon has acquired the rights to show UEFA Champions League in Italy for the first time. Amazon will stream 16 matches through its Prime Video platform on Wednesday nights, along with the UEFA Super Cup, for three seasons from 2021/22. Rumours of Amazon’s interest originally emerged in October, but now the deal has been confirmed […]
Global TV sales remain stable and will stay that way, with Futuresource Consulting forecasting growth of less than one per cent CAGR between 2018 and 2024. This obscures the underlying turmoil as there has been a boost in sales across developed countries during the year, with consumers looking to improve the home viewing experience during […]
JW Player, the independent platform for video delivery and intelligence, has revealed its predictions for the video industry in 2021. “The pandemic heightened an already insatiable demand for video, and naturally brands and media companies want to capitalise on this demand,” said Dave Otten, JW Player CEO and co-founder. “Our player is live across over […]
ScreenHits TV and Sceenic have announced a partnership, that will allow consumers to interact live via video chat with friends and family around the world whilst streaming their favourite films and TV series from some of the most popular streaming platforms. ScreenHits TV Watch Together powered by Sceenic delivers a powerful and unique viewing experience […]
The continued strength of the video streaming market is confirmed by the latest analysis from Strategy Analytics’ TV and Media Strategies research. The report, Q3 2020 Global VOD Service Competitor Review, found that the annual increase in global SVoD subscriptions in Q3 2020 reached 217.6 million, the highest ever, beating the previous record of 211.7 […]
With BritBox, its joint venture SVoD service with ITV successfully established as a source of drama and entertainment for North American viewers, BBC Studios, the Corporation’s commercial arm – is set to launch a new, ad-free subscription streaming channel, BBC SELECT, in early 2021 on Amazon Prime Video Channels and the Apple TV app. BBC […]
Amazon Prime Video will be the home of the new animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks in multiple regions and territories around the world, including the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Japan, India and more. All ten episodes of the first season will launch on January 22nd 2021 on Prime Video. Developed by Mike McMahan […]
Datazoom, the real-time video data platform, announced today the release of a new data enrichment solution, which enriches data collected from their platform’s Player Collectors with revenue data from Google Ad Manager. Even for streaming-first companies, challenges exist to extract the insights needed to take a data-driven approach to grow revenue and profitability. Although the […]
Parks Associates has released the new whitepaper Improving OTT Customer Engagement with Smart Data on the final day of its virtual conference Future of Video: OTT, Pay TV, and Digital Media. The whitepaper, developed in cooperation with Salesforce, finds approximately 40 per cent of US broadband households trialed at least one OTT service during the […]
TriForce Creative Network, the organisation which promotes diversity and inclusion in the film and TV industries, and Amazon Prime Video have announced the winner of the latest TriForce WriterSlam competition, which aims to support emerging writers from across the UK. The winner, Tumi Belo, was one of four finalists selected from over 1500 submissions following […]