Pickleball is coming to Prime Video through a multiyear agreement with the Carvana Professional Pickleball Association (PPA) Tour, giving Prime Video exclusive global streaming rights to four live PPA Tour events per year, including the 2023-24 PPA World Championship Series. Coverage on Prime Video starts on May 18th, with the Acrytech Atlanta Open presented by […]
Following its December 2022 launch in France, streaming platform Paramount+’s viewership has been boosted by distribution agreements with Canal+, Orange and Amazon. The SVoD offering, which offers titles including Tulsa King (pictured), Halo and Mayor of Kingstown, is now present in 4 per cent of French households and its penetration rate has jumped 70 per […]
Pictures in Motion has announced that new series Ready Set StartUP launches on Prime Video on May 17th. Ready Set StartUP is a ground-breaking new series that brings 10 early-stage entrepreneurs with exciting business ideas to battle it out for a £100,000 in investment and robust business support, all aimed at turbocharging their startup journey. […]
Video technology innovator Matrox Video has played a key role in increasing channel density of ingest servers for Studio Berlin, a technical service provider for TV productions and outside broadcast in Germany. Studio Berlin — part of Studio Hamburg Group, with headquarters in Berlin and offices in Cologne and Lüneburg — offers a broad portfolio […]
The gap in the Spanish TV market between the country’s largest OTT services, Prime Video and Netflix, is getting smaller, with the former stepping on Netflix’s heels. Data from Barlovento Comunicación reveals that Netflix is the market leader with a penetration rate of 52.6 per cent, despite the 1 million subscribers lost through the anti-sharing […]
The Ride, an eight-episode docuseries produced by Kinetic Content surrounding the world of PBR (Professional Bull Riders), will premiere May 30th, exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. The Ride follows an ensemble cast of PBR Team Series bull riders, team coaches, and front-office executives—including star athletes Jose Vitor Leme, […]
OUTtv, the LGBTQ+ television and streaming service, is launching a channel on Prime Video in the US. The channel is an extension of OUTtv’s partnership with Prime Video in Canada and Australia, where OUTtv has been available as a channel since 2021. The is available immediately to Amazon Prime subscribers for $3.99 a month, with […]
Good Omens Season Two will premiere on July 28th on Prime Video. After the global success of the first season, co-creator Neil Gaiman is satisfying fans’ hunger for more on-screen adventures of the unholy duo with an entirely original story. The Season Two premiere date was revealed on the 33rd anniversary of the publishing of […]
Chyron has announced the appointment of D’Arcy Pickering as senior product manager for the company’s NewsTicker data management and integration system and Marcel Clayton as product manager for its Click Effects stadium and in-venue production system. In these new roles, Pickering and Clayton will oversee ideation for new features, UI/UX improvements, and overall development for […]
One For All, a four-part docuseries from Neo Studios on Belgian football stars Thibaut Courtois, Romelu Lukaku and Axel Witsel, will be available exclusively on Prime Video in the UK & Ireland, Benelux, Spain and Italy from May 25th. Incorporating six months of filming, the four x 30’ series tracks the players across multiple continents […]