The previously untold origins of Olaf, the innocent and insightful snowman from Disney animated feature Frozen and its sequel, are set to be revealed in a new Walt Disney Animation Studios animated short, Once Upon a Snowman. The film follows Olaf’s first steps as he comes to life and searches for his identity in the […]
Asia Pacific will have 467 million SVoD subscriptions by 2025, up from 267 million in 2019, according to the Asia Pacific SVOD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. China will contribute 279 million SVoD subscriptions in 2025 – or 60 per cent of the region’s total. India will supply a further 66 million […]
The live-action remake of Mulan is now available on Disney+ after forgoing a cinema release in the UK and US, and other countries where the SVoD service in available. The movie was originally scheduled to be released in theatres in March before the pandemic kept pushing that date back. Despite cinemas reopening in many countries, […]
Following the arrival of Buffy The Vampire Slayer in June, Channel 4 has announced that its spin-off, Angel, will be available to stream from September 18th on All 4, with episodes also showing on E4 from late autumn. Acquired as part of a licensing deal with the Walt Disney Company, all five seasons of the […]
Streaming in Sweden rose to new record levels in the second quarter. Daily reach, i.e. the number of people that view streamed content an average day, has never been higher, reports Mediavision. During the quarter, close to 70 per cent of all 15-74-year-olds consumed streamed video content daily. Viewing has increased especially among the elderly […]
Since 2015, Hub Entertainment Research’s annual Decoding the Default study has tracked the TV source that consumers consider their TV ‘home base’: the source they turn on first when they’re ready to watch. This year’s study identifies viewers’ home base and the considerations that drive their choice of default. Highlights from the study:
The era of the broadband and TV bundle is nearing an end according to research from Zen Internet, with millions of households no longer seeing its value. Its findings suggest that two million of the
Disney has revealed that it will cost £19.99 to rent the live-action Mulan remake in UK homes when the movie launches on September 4th, forgoing a theatrical release. In European markets where Disney+ is present it will cost €21.99. The price is slightly lower than the US market where it was previously announced it will […]
The Disney+ SVoD service will roll out in Latin America and Brazil this November. Disney sent out a seemingly accidental tweet revealing November 17th as the official launch date in the region. In a tweet labelled ‘DO NOT POST’, the official Disney+ Latin America Twitter account published an internal memo advising staff to, when the […]
Brightcove, the video technology platform, has published the Brightcove Q2 2020 Global Video Index Entertainment and Media Edition, which found that OTT streaming of entertainment content continued to dominate, even as governments began loosening stay-at-home restrictions. The data suggests that consumers’ media consumption habits may be permanently shifting away from linear TV, cementing streaming as […]