The recent ban on Chinese social media platform TikTok in Indi has sent shockwaves across the country’s TikTok community. The platform, which leverages viral, user-generated content, has more than 120 million users as recorded in June 2020, reports Bisbo India – a YouTube channel to dedicated to animated news videos. TikTok has emerged as a […]
The Covid-19 crisis highlighted a considerable increase in video consumption, reports market analyst company Dataxis. In the US, Comcast has seen a 50 per cent rise in VoD viewing over March and April 2020 for instance. While SVoD and linear-OTT environments have become more overcrowded over the last years (households in the US now subscribe […]
Youtube TV, the US pay-streaming service, has raised its subscription price by $15 to $64.99 a month, saying that the new price reflects the ‘rising cost of content’. Christian Oestlien, VP of Product Management at YouTube TV, wrote in a blog post.”This new price takes effect today, June 30, for new members. Existing subscribers will […]
Origin broadband and Netgem have joined forces to offer Origin TV, a new multiscreen service combining a wealth of free live and On-demand content from public broadcasters, YouTube and YouTube Kids, genre based ‘go to’ channels, along with premium sport content through Premier Sports, with access to Spanish and Italian top football matches exclusively from […]
According to a recent survey by Kaspersky, 27 per cent of Nigerian parents do not watch video blogs and are not sure what is popular among modern kids. However, the kids themselves are interested in watching such content: one third of children in Nigeria watch video blogs, including those dedicated to games and toys (60 […]
The F1 Esports – Virtual Grand Prix Series, which drew to a close last weekend, achieved a record breaking 30 million views across TV and digital platforms during the lockdown period, as fans tuned in for live sporting action, including eight Virtual Grands Prix, Pro Exhibition races and #Challenge events. The series was created to […]
Research from King’s College London and Ipsos Mori reveals that people who get their news from social media are more likely to believe in such coronavirus conspiracy theories. In an online survey of over 2,000 people carried out in late May, 30 per cent thought that the coronavirus was created in a lab, up from […]
Sports promotion company GT Sport, SIRIO eSports and MSD have announced the Superstars Open – a one-day televised sim racing event to find the greatest Euroformula Open single-seater graduate of all time, including big names who have gone on to compete in series such as F1, F2, F3, Indycar, Superformula, Formula E, DTM, the World […]
Research from TDG, a division of Screen Engine/ASI, has found that nearly one-quarter of US virtual pay-TV households also subscribe to a traditional cable, satellite, or telco pay-TV service. Dual-service use peaked at 37 per cent of vMVPD subscribers in 2018, a time when Sling TV dominated the landscape, leaving many users without live programming […]
Who are the new Indian online video viewers? According to Google, they’re 15-34 year-olds (73 per cent) who Google videos whenever they wish to learn something. The search giant revealed these details in a report titled the Indian online video viewer based on viewership patterns and behaviour on its video-streaming platform, YouTube. The report highlights […]