Each year, the Best Bundle study from Hub Entertainment Research takes an inventory of the full range of TV services consumers use—and identifies the services that are gaining and losing market share over time. Key findings from this year’s study: The average number of sources consumers use to access TV content has hit an all-time […]
FilmRise, the New York-based film and television studio and streaming network, has acquired the exclusive SV0D, AVoD and FAST rights to over 400 episodes across three properties of digital native content from Rooster Teeth, a subsidiary of Warner Bros Discovery. The three properties are the first animated series that FilmRise has acquired for the digital […]
acontra+, the new Spanish streaming concept combining movie streaming and cinema tickets in a subscription, is launched on the Magine Pro platform. The service is run by the independent Spanish distributor A Contracorriente Films with a wide catalogue of national and international feature films of all genres, classics and contemporary films and is made available […]
Findings from the annual State of the Nation national TV trends survey from the Digital TV Group (DTG), the centre for UK digital TV, suggest that quality matters for an increasingly discerning consumer when it comes to resolution, audio quality and content. Consumers now expect all SVoDs and BVoDs to be available across all devices […]
Netgem has announced a partnership with Gaumont, launching their first SVoD service entirely dedicated to the French black and white cinematic tradition ‘Gaumont Classique’. With more than 200 titles and nearly 70 hours of additional content, Gaumont Classique rely on of all the features provided by Netgem’s platform: dynamic editorialisation of films and their additional […]
TelevisaUnivision, the Spanish-language media and content company, has entered into an agreement with HMTV DTC, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Hemisphere Media Group, to acquire Pantaya, a streaming platform in the US for Spanish-language movies and series in exchange for cash plus certain Puerto Rican radio assets including WKAQ AM and KQ105 FM currently […]
ZEE5 Global, the streaming platform for South-Asian content, has unveiled their blockbuster content slate for 2022 with 80+ titles spanning across Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, and Bengali. The slate encompasses 40+ original shows and 40+ movies featuring an expansive gamut of genres, including cutting-edge thrillers, high-voltage action, gripping dramas, light-hearted comedies, and soul-stirring romances. In […]
This year, 1.88 billion people around the world will use SVoD services like Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video. Recently, a number of services – including Netflix – have announced they will likely introduce ad supported options to make up for loss of revenue from dwindling subscriptions. MediaRadar recently reviewed advertising across multiple ad-supported streaming platforms, […]
In May 2021, Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom launched its own mobile streaming website BAZE with local and regional short videos. In the same year, Nigerian multinational telecoms company Globacom also introduced its Glo TV mobile app offering TV channels and streaming content. Airtel, Globacom, MTN, Orange, Safaricom, Vodacom are all examples of telecommunication companies deciding […]
Just over half (51 per cent) of TV content viewers in the US currently subscribe to a traditional cable/satellite service, according to the State of Pay TV, OTT & SVOD 2022 report from Horowitz Research. This represents another substantial decrease in traditional video subscriptions. The same survey in 2021 measured cable/satellite penetration at 63 per […]