Ativist and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is set to feature in an exclusive docuseries produced by ESPN Films as part of a first-look deal with The Walt Disney Company. The deal between Kaepernick’s production arm, Ra Vision Media, and Disney will focus on telling scripted and unscripted stories that explore race, social injustice and […]
2020 continues to be a volatile year for the UK video and TV entertainment industry, with accelerated adoption across all OTT sectors and a lockdown boom that has played to the strengths of content hungry UK consumers. A report from Futuresource Consulting reveals the full dynamism of the UK video sector, pointing to an uptick […]
Research from cross-platform evaluation specialist Comscore shows a continued year-over-year (YOY) increase in VoD transactions as millions of Americans seek entertainment during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, overall consumption for May 2020 declined compared to the previous month, suggesting that consumption may be gradually returning to pre-pandemic levels. Looking at YOY change by key genres, several […]
The new animated movie “Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe,” from Disney Television Animation, will premiere exclusively on Disney+ on August 28th. The soundtrack, from Walt Disney Records, will be available the same day. Executive-produced by the creators/executive producers of the Emmy Award-winning “Phineas and Ferb” series, Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” […]
Parks Associates research shows the number of hours per week consumers spend watching online video has almost doubled from 3.6 hours per week in 2017 to nearly seven hours per week in 2020. The Set-top Box Innovations and Trends report also notes traditional pay-TV has declined from an adoption rate of 75 per cent to […]
Parks Associates reports that the churn rate for OTT services increased from 35 per cent in Q1 2019 to 41 per cent in Q1 2020. During the Covid-19 crisis, more than two in five US broadband households have trialed an OTT service, and 8 per cent of households have trialed four or more services. “We […]
This summer, Disney+ has announced a ‘Summer Movie Nights’ line-up of brand new original and newly announced movies coming to the streaming service. Beginning July 3rd with the Disney+ premieres of Hamilton, the filmed version of the original Broadway production, and Frozen 2, there will be blockbuster movies premiering every week. The Summer Movie Nights […]
Smartphone gross SVoD subscriptions for 138 countries will double between 2019 and 2025 to 170 million, according to the Smartphone SVoD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. The total will climb by 25 million in 2020 alone. The net smartphone SVoD subscriber count will
Disney has confirmed that, from October 1st, its Disney+ D2C service will be the exclusive UK home for content from Disney Channel, Disney XD, and Disney Junior – effectively ending the carriage of the linear channels by UK pay-TV platforms BT TV, Sky and Virgin Media. “The direct-to-consumer service, which garnered more that 54.5 million […]
The surge in users of SVoD services during the stay-at-home period was not always sustained once people were allowed to move around more freely, according to new research from analyst firm Strategy Analytics. The report, Covid-19’s Impact on SVoD, surveyed a