Connected entertainment specialist VIZIO has introduced My Watchlist, a new feature that allows viewers to add their favourite TV shows and movies from different streaming services into one central location on VIZIO SmartCast TVs. Adding shows and movies to My Watchlist is as easy as searching for a title, actor or selecting the ‘+ Watchlist’ […]

Prime Video will launch Rio Ferdinand’s Tipping Point, a three-part UK Original documentary series fronted by Rio Ferdinand, exploring key issues impacting football today. The series will launch exclusively on Prime Video on November 11th in more than 50 countries and territories worldwide. Rio Ferdinand’s Tipping Point follows the former Manchester United and England footballer, […]

Media measurement company Nielsen’s latest monthly total TV and streaming snapshot report, The Gauge, reveals that streaming remained the most-watched TV format in September, capturing 36.9 per cent of overall television usage and marking another record-high share for the category. Broadcast also saw an increase in September with its share of TV climbing to 24.2 […]

Prime Video has announced having sealed several movie agreements in France with major US studios. Revealing its European strategy at the Seaview Producers Hub during MIPCOM in Cannes, Sahar Baghery, head of Acquisition in France, said the SVoD service had signed for a second window with Sony Pictures for Marvel titles such as Spider-Man: No […]

UK multiplay telco TalkTalk is launching a new TV Hub. Available as a limited release to customers on Full Fibre packages, the new box offers over 70 live TV channels, catchup services including BBC iPlayer and ITV Hub, a huge range of streaming & subscription services including Netflix, Prime Video and NOW, plus Google Play […]

Prime Video has announced that its upcoming unscripted competition series, Dr Seuss Baking Challenge, will premiere on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on December 13th. In the UK and the US, Dr Seuss Baking Challenge will also premiere simultaneously on AVoD service, Amazon Freevee. Dr Seuss Baking Challenge invites some […]

To determine consumer perceptions and behaviours related to Connected TV (CTV) as the medium continues to take off, LG Ads Solutions, the CTV and cross-screen media company backed by LG Electronics, conducted an online survey of over 1000 UK consumers in October 2022. Among the findings: Netflix is still king: When asked which subscription services […]

Over half (58 per cent) of Italian households subscribe to at least one of the major SVoD platforms, 10 per cent higher than in 2020, according to a survey by GfK Sinottica. Italian households, on average, have access to two SVoD platforms, and the market has significant growth potential as about three million households say […]

Vodacom South Africa has announced that all new, existing and upgrading customers are now eligible to subscribe to Prime Video or Prime Video Mobile Edition, regardless of price plan, whether prepaid or post-paid. Vodacom is the first telecommunications company in Africa to offer Prime Video Mobile Edition. With Prime Video Mobile Edition, customers benefit from […]

Trade body the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) is releasing what it says is a UK first – with the launch of a multi-channelled educational video showcasing a step-by-step guide on renting or downloading a film or TV boxset from your favourite store. “With several digital stores to buy or rent movies from, it […]