Findings from media evaluation specialist Comscore’s 2022 State of Streaming suggest that AVoD services are seeing adoption at a faster rate than SVoD, with a 29 per cent increase in US households streaming AVoDs in 2022 compared to 2020 vs a 21 per cent increase during the same period for SVoDs. “While both ad-supported and […]
Personalised recommendations and hyper-targeted advertising platform ThinkAnalytics has confirmed that MBC GROUP streaming service Shahid is deploying the Think360 personalised content discovery and viewer engagement platform. Shahid will go live with Think360 in the summer of 2022, with support for Arabic, English, and French languages. It will support Shahid’s customer acquisition and content monetisation goals […]
FilmRise, the New York-based film and television studio and streaming network, has acquired all rights to the recently wrapped sixth and upcoming seventh seasons of Woodcut Media’s long-running true crime docuseries World’s Most Evil Killers, represented by Keshet International for world sales. The deal gives FilmRise exclusive digital SVoD, AVoD and FAST rights domestically to […]
FilmRise, the New York-based film and television studio and streaming network, and Bell Media, the Canadian media company, have announced a partnership deal for a range of FilmRise content across multiple genres available to Canadians on Bell Media’s CTV Throwback and CTV Movies digital channels on CTV.ca and the CTV app. The announcement was jointly […]
SoFAST has announced that is has successfully completed its first round of funding.In a press statement, the company said: “As an aggregator of FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming Television) channels, this fundraising will allow us to grow our business development and technical support activities, around the world, allowing us to get closer to our customers, provide […]
MetaX Software, a global leader in advertising operation and OTT commercialisation on CTV (Connected TV), has added 180 new channels to its linear TV catalogue, providing viewers access to a huge selection of free ad-supported television (FAST) titles from FAST Channels TV. The new line-up offers premium entertainment channels, family-friendly content, as well as sports […]
Castify.ai, an omnichannel content distribution and monetisation platform that allows video content owners to create their own branded OTT applications & FAST channels across multiple smart TV and streaming platforms, has seen a year over year rise of 170 per cent in viewership with an increase of 230 per cent in average time spent on […]
In 2021, the Latino-American advertising market attracted investments of $14.22 billion (€13.35bn), according to Dataxis. Although the figure meant a recovery of 34.5 per cent compared to the fateful 2020, it was slightly below the 2019 record. The digital format replaced television as the leading advertising vehicle for the first time. The amount of spending […]
FilmRise, the New York-based film and television studio and streaming network, is expanding its comedy offering with the acquisition of stand-up specials from Gotham Comedy Live. FilmRise will be distributing these specials to SVoD and AVoD streaming platforms around the world, and across the FilmRise Streaming Network, including the FilmRise Comedy app. Max Einhorn, SVP, […]
Global revenues from OTT movies and series will reach $224 billion (€212bn) in 2027; up from $135 billion on 2021, according to the Global OTT TV and Video Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. About $21 billion will be added in 2022 alone. SVoD revenues will climb by $48 billion between 2021 and […]