WWE has announced that The Undertaker will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame at a ceremony on April 1st at American Airlines Center in Dallas as part of WrestleMania Week. The event will stream live exclusively on Peacock in the US and WWE Network in the UK and everywhere else. In addition, for […]
BARB, the UK’s television audience measurement currency, has released data from its Establishment Survey for Q4 2021. BARB says the Establishment Survey enables it to understand the characteristics of UK households, part of ensuring that its daily reporting of television audiences is representative of the whole population. One of the most-discussed metrics that the Establishment […]
Gross SVoD subscriptions (for movies, linear channels and TV episodes – excluding other platforms such as sports) in the US will climb from 354 million at end-2021 to 458 million in 2027, according to the North America OTT TV & Video Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. About 86 per cent of TV […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed plans to launch new AWS Local Zones in 32 new metropolitan areas in 26 countries around the world. It already has Zones in 16 US cities. AWS Local Zones leverage computer, storage, database, and other AWS services at the edge of the cloud near large population, industry and IT […]
In 2021, the dynamics of the SVoD OTT market in Latin America were altered by the entrance of some of the world’s largest content producers, namely Disney (with Disney+) and Warner Media (with HBO Max), notes Dataxis. As a result of this increased competition, the subscription growth reached an all-time record, with a 47.2 per […]
As viewers whet their appetite for the upcoming Oscars ceremony, Netflix’s two best picture nominations, The Power of the Dog and Don’t Look Up, both took spots in the Netflix Top 10 English Films for the week commecing February 7th. The Power of the Dog, which received 12 nominations, re-entered the English Films list off […]
Netflix has announced that it is partnering with 2K and Take-Two Interactive to produce a live-action film adaptation of the celebrated video game franchise BioShock. Published by 2K, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, the acclaimed BioShock game franchise includes BioShock, BioShock 2 and BioShock Infinite. Set across multiple dystopian and visionary landscapes gone wrong, […]
GAC Media has announced that GAC Family is the new linear home of “Fuller House” after an agreement with Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution. Beginning Monday, February 28, the complete library of 75 episodes of “Fuller House” will begin airing on GAC Family, marking the first time the series will be available to viewers on […]
The US and Europe are ‘Neflix’d out’, according to data and analytics company GlobalData, who suggest the SVoD service needs to turn to ‘emerging’ markets such as India if it wants to stop its falling new subscriber numbers and plummeting share price. “Netflix’s results may have come at a surprise to some, as the platform’s […]
This columnist’s conviction that Netflix’s business model is fundamentally a plate-spinning act, with the same potential mishaps, has waxed and waned as results have continued to boom, with just the odd bump in the road. But the conviction has never gone away completely, even as the company seemed to reach the status of 800lb gorilla […]