WarnerMedia has announced its latest strategic push to maximise HBO Max’s chances of success in the new year: bringing its entire cinematic slate to streaming. Proving that the call to shift Wonder Woman 1984 to the SVOD was not a one off, the company will launch all of its 2021 cinematic releases day-and-date on HBO […]
A major round of lay-offs is underway at Walt Disney’s Television Group, with many high-level execs departing the company following the recent consolidation of its TV operations to focus on streaming services. The cuts come two days after it was revealed that the Touchstone label is to be shuttered and Disney Television Studios will reduce […]
The international launch of Discovery’s streaming service discovery+ will cause the company to rethink its sport content acquisitions for Eurosport. The service initially rolled out in the UK last month, and will expand into more than 25 key markets including the Nordics, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain in 2021. European customers will have access to […]
Estrella Media has become the latest media company to partner with Samsung on its rapidly expanding Samsung TV Plus AVOD platform. The company is a Spanish-language media organisation, and has announced that it will bring its KSDX-EstrellaTV and Estrella News content to Samsung TV Plus. As its name would suggest, Estrella Media operates the Estrella […]
The TV business in the Middle East and North Africa region faces big changes over the course of next year as satellite pay TV operators switch to offering OTT services to take on cord cutting, sports rights holders move to selling rights on a country-by-country basis and OTT providers start to invest significant amounts in […]
Close to 12 million French internet users consumed pirated content last year, representing a loss of earnings of €1.03 billion to rights holders, according to figures released by the Haute autorité pour la diffusion des oeuvres et la protection des droits sur internet (Hadopi), the body set up over a decade ago to combat piracy. […]
WarnerMedia will simultaneously launch all of its 2021 cinematic releases simultaneously on streaming service HBO Max in what will be an aggressive push for the streamer. The company said that this will be an experiment for one year, with the films having a one month window on HBO Max before leaving the platform for a […]
The Nordic market has added close to three million additional SVOD subscriptions over the past year, taking the total to almost 14 million. According to Medavision, the region has seen substantial growth in recent years, resulting in a total market size of 13.6 million subscriptions. This increase, the researcher says, is due to a growth […]
Kids streaming service Playground TV has launched in an additional eight countries across Europe. The streamer, aimed at children aged 2-9, is now available in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. The free-to-view service launched in the UK last month, and has been developed to help kids discover safe and engaging video […]
Discovery has unveiled its international streaming service discovery+. An expanded version of the UK service which was launched last month with a free offer for Sky Q customers, the SVOD will enter the increasingly crowded US market on January 4 2021. The streamer will be offered as a US$4.99 per month ad-supported service or US$6.99 […]
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.@Vewd adds support for BML and Hybridcast in major play for Japanese growth digitaltveurope.com/2020/12/04/vew… https://t.co/R5jJ2PH1j3
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itel deploys NetRange’s cloud-based VISNOS smart TV platform digitaltveurope.com/2020/12/04/ite… https://t.co/pNpJTQVfPM
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.@Disney cuts swathe of senior execs as TV restructure begins digitaltveurope.com/2020/12/04/dis… https://t.co/5KaNddfRpV
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