FlixClassic, a new SVoD service, has launched in Poland offering viewers the best classic movies, featuring drama, comedy, action and many more including cult and niche content. The service is delivered on the Redge Media video streaming platform as end-to-end deployment. FlixClassic provides a curated heritage of world cinematography, from Intolerance (1916), to Metropolis (1927), […]

With rollouts from Disney+, SkyShowtime and HBO Max, 2022 should prove to be a significant year for Eastern European SVoD, according to the Eastern Europe OTT TV & Video Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. The report forecasts that the region will have 43 million SVoD subscriptions by 2027; up from 23 million […]

GWI, a supplier of audience insights, has released its flagship report on the latest trends in entertainment. Using its Software-as-a-Service platform, which draws upon more than 700,000 interviews of internet users aged 16-64, the report highlights the media behaviours that have stuck since the pandemic, and drills down into what’s changed. Older consumers gravitate to […]

BritBox International, the BBC & ITV joint venture, will launch in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland on April 28th, offering thousands of hours of British content. The streaming service’s Nordic debut will extend Britbox into eight countries internationally, following successful launches in the US, Canada, Australia, and South Africa that join BritBox in the UK. […]

The number of UK households that subscribe to at least one video streaming service fell as the cost-of-living crisis led some UK households (particularly younger households) to deprioritise entertainment, according to Kantar’s Entertainment on Demand study. Some 16.9 million or 58 per cent of households now have at least one paid subscription, down 215,000, quarter-on-quarter. […]

A range of European organisations, representing key stakeholders in the film and audiovisual creation, production and distribution value chain, have welcomed the findings of the latest European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) study on the Circulation of European films on VOD and in cinemas, complementing the EAO’s Yearbook 2021/2022 Key Trends. They say that responding to evolving […]

Russian Netflix subscribers are to seeking to sue the streaming platform for loss of service; the network has been suspended as a consequence of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Netflix, which only has about one million subscribers in the country, suspended its service in early-March and halted the development and acquisition of all Russian-made or […]

Apple TV+ has agreed a multi-year overall deal with Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s production company Playtone to exclusively develop, produce and distribute all forms of television globally encompassing series, limited series, documentaries and unscripted projects. Apple’s partnership with Playtone builds on its existing film and series relationship which includes the limited drama series Masters […]

The five largest US content commissioners have increased the proportion of their original slates premiering online, according to research firm Ampere Analysis. In the US, Discovery, Disney, WarnerMedia and Comcast have all coalesced at between 40 per cent to 50 per cent of Original first-run TV Titles commissioned in 2021 going to SVoD. This change […]

Netflis has unveiled 18 new movies and TV series coming soon to the platform. In a blog post, Netflix’s Anna Nagler (Local Language Series – CEE) and Łukasz Kłuskiewicz (Content Acquisitions – CEE) outlined the new projects: Since the beginning of Netflix’s journey in Poland, we have been in awe of the creativity of the […]