Prime Video and the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) have announced a multi-year rights extension in which Prime Video will continue to be the exclusive national streaming partner of 21 WNBA games each season, including the Championship Game of the WNBA Commissioner’s Cup presented by Coinbase. The 2023 WNBA Commissioner’s Cup attracted the largest audience […]
Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and […]
Concentration is the main characteristic of VoD usage in Europe with 85 per cent of viewing time generated by only three services (Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+). Of that viewing, 30 per cent is of European (including UK) content. These are the main takeaways from two new reports SVOD Usage in the European Union and […]
Prime Video has agreed a sublicensing deal with Viaplay to stream 38 live Premier Leagues (EPL) games per season in Sweden and Denmark until the end of the 2027/28 season. Starting with the 2024/25 campaign in August, Prime Video subscribers in the aforementioned countries will be able to watch Saturday 12:30pm kick-offs (1:30pm CET) from […]
ANGA COM, the European Exhibition and Conference for Broadband, Television & Online, has exceeded last year’s mark in terms of the number of exhibitors and the net rented space: 475 companies from 35 countries will be present on 25,000 sqm gross exhibition space. The event takes place May 14th – 16th in Cologne, Germany. Dr. […]
The Italian government has adopted amendments to the Audiovisual Media Services Law that prioritise investment in original Italian content, particularly for streaming services. Streaming players like Netflix and Prime Video must now invest 16 per cent of their Italian revenue in European productions (down from 20 per cent, but 70 per cent must be Italian […]
Prime Video has announced that Nicole Kidman will return, and Henry Golding, Mark Strong, Lena Olin have boarded the cast of Nine Perfect Strangers’s season 2 as series regulars. Kidman will once again also executive produce the series. The show hails from David E. Kelley, Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories, Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films, and […]
ScreenThink, MTM’s market intelligence insights tool for the TV and video industry, has published the findings of its latest research report which paints a picture of a changing landscape for SVoD services in the UK in the wake of multiple updates from the leading brands. In a climate where some SVoD services are experiencing user […]
Prime Video has announced that Beast Games, from MrBeast – the world’s most popular YouTuber – has been ordered to series. Based on his hugely successful YouTube show, Beast Games is set to become the biggest reality competition series ever with 1,000 contestants competing for a $5 million (€4.59m) cash prize which will be the biggest […]
Prime Video has greenlit a new feature-length documentary from Shaquille O’Neal’s Jersey Legends and Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media about the inspiring journey of former NBA superstar Allen Iverson. The documentary will premiere exclusively on the streaming platform in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on a date TBC. “I’m ready to tell my story […]