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Digital I JV with The Film Agency

Digital i, an analytics and mediatech company, has announced the launch of a new product, Think Data: Bridging The Data Gap. As part of a venture with Madrid-based marketing agency, The Film Agency, Think Data harnesses the SVoD viewership data provided by Digital i’s SoDA platform to create a series of pan-European monthly insight reports […]

March 1, 2022

Research: 34% SE Asian viewers using OTT services

A third (34 per cent) of Southeast Asian viewers are now using OTT services, according to a study by The Trade Desk. The research also shows that the region welcomed 20 million new OTT viewers in the past year. There are now 200 million users who stream 9.7 billion hours’ worth of OTT content per […]

February 28, 2022

MotorTrend Premium on The Roku Channel

MotorTrend Group, a Discovery company, has announced that MotorTrend’s complete collection of series, specials and documentaries dedicated entirely to the automotive world are now available to US consumers through Premium Subscriptions on The Roku Channel. Streamers can now access MotorTrend’s catalogue of automotive series including: Top Gear America, Kevin Hart’s Muscle Car Crew, Motor MythBusters, […]

February 28, 2022

Study: Streamed TV continues to surge

The increased shift of audience attention from linear TV to streaming/CTV holds great potential for both advertisers and broadcasters, according to audience measurement platform AudienceProject. In a blog post following the publication of the company’s study, Insights 2022 – Linear TV and streaming, which looks at the current state of linear TV and streaming consumption […]

February 25, 2022By Colin Mann

Forecast: GCC VoD revenue $2.1bn by 2026

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) video industry grew revenue by 11 per cent Y/Y in 2021 to reach $1.9 billion (€1.6bn), according to the GCC Video & Broadband Distribution 2021 report from Media Partners Asia (MPA). The report provides analysis of telecoms, online video, pay-TV and free TV industries across the six Gulf Cooperation Council […]

February 23, 2022

More Snoopy for Apple TV+

Apple has announced that season two of The Snoopy Show will premiere with all six episodes on March 11th on Apple TV+. Peanuts fans all around the world can also look forward to two new Peanuts specials coming soon to Apple TV+, including It’s the Small Things, Charlie Brown a new original special in celebration […]

February 23, 2022By Nik Roseveare

Veset powers Augustus Media’s Smashi TV

Veset has been selected by Augustus Media to power its smart TV application, Smashi TV. Veset’s advanced cloud playout platform, Veset Nimbus, is running the 24-hour linear streaming service on AWS. Owned by Middle Eastern digital media company, Augustus Media, Smashi is an OTT streaming service and brand that covers the most innovative products, services, technologies and business news […]

February 23, 2022

Forecast: Disney+ will overtake Netflix in 2028

Global SVoD subscriptions will increase by 550 million between 2021 and 2027 to reach 1.75 billion, according to the SVOD Forecasts Update report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. China and the US will together account for 48 per cent of the world’s total by 2027. “China and the US had a similar number of […]

February 22, 2022

France: Netflix injects €30m annually into film industry

Netflix has signed its first financial agreement with the French movie industry – represented by producers and authors associations Blic, Bloc and Arp – which will see the streaming service contribute at least €30 million annually into French-speaking movies for the next three years. This contribution, which amounts to 4 per cent of the net […]

February 22, 2022From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Omens Studios partners with VlogBox

Singapore and UK-based animation company Omens Studios has partnered with global video content distribution platform VlogBox to further extend the reach of Omens’ hit series with two brand new AVoD and SVoD apps. The initial roll out via VlogBox sees free, ad-supported and SVOD apps for the internationally loved series Leo the Wildlife Ranger and […]

February 21, 2022