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Report: Global streaming consumption up 63%

Conviva has published its Q2 State of Streaming Report which shows that global streaming time was up 63 per cent year-on-year, with April up 81 per cent, May up 58 per cent, and June up 49 per cent as national lockdown measures were relaxed. Globally, ad demand dropped 28 per cent in a single quarter, […]

August 7, 2020

ESPN: 78% support sports resuming without fans

ESPN has shared findings from the second wave of its ESPN Coronavirus Lockdown Fan Study. The survey of 1,003 US sports fans ages 18+, fielded from June 23rd – 26th, was conducted to explore the latest perceptions around the pandemic and its impact on sports moving forward. With MLS, NWSL, and UFC underway and MLB, […]

July 23, 2020

Disney signs first-look deal with Kaepernick

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 […]

July 7, 2020

ViacomCBS carriage on Dish

ViacomCBS has reached a new multi-year renewal of its carriage agreement with Dish Network in the US. The agreement keeps the ViacomCBS broadcast and cable networks on Dish and its Sling TV virtual multichannel video programming distributors. Dish has been focused on its move into wireless with Boost Mobile. ViacomCBS signed distribution renewals with Verizon […]

July 7, 2020

Kaepernick drama series heading to Netflix

The adolescent life of NFL quarterback and activist Colin Kaepernick will be explored in Colin in Black & White, a new scripted limited series from Kaepernick and Academy Award Nominee and Emmy Award Winner Ava DuVernay. The Netflix series will focus on Kaepernick’s formative high school years, lending insight into the acts and experiences that […]

June 29, 2020

Amazon plans live TV on Prime Video

Amazon would seem to be preparing to add live TV to its services, according to recently posted job adverts. One of the adverts indicates that Amazon is looking to hire someone to “redefine how customers watch 24/7 linear broadcast TV content” by “designing the end-to-end customer experience for how customers discover and watch Linear TV […]

June 25, 2020

Research: 1 in 7 OTT homes ‘borrowing’ accounts

Research from Ampere Analysis has revealed that one in seven online video households worldwide are ‘borrowing’ an account. Ampere defines an account borrower as anyone who says they are using a login for a subscription online video platform from someone outside of their household to access a service. Borrowed services might include mainstream TV and

June 5, 2020