US studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) is rolling out a film and TV streaming service in Germany via local TV provider Zattoo. The MGM SVOD will provide Zattoo subscribers with TV shows including The Handmaid’s Tale, comedy-drama series Get Shorty and movies such as Robocop, Terminator and 21 Jump Street. The service will cost €3.99 […]
NBCUniversal has signed a deal with ViacomCBS to license a number of its movies and TV shows for upcoming streamer Peacock. Peacock will launch on July 15 in the US with a free tier which offers more than 7,500 hours of content, an ad-supported premium tier with 15,000 hours of content (including live sports such […]
UPC has become the first Swiss telco to sign a distribution deal with Starzplay. Starzplay, the streaming platform of US network Starz, offers celebrated original shows such as The Spanish Princess, Spartacus and Hightown and serves as the exclusive Swiss home of Hulu original series The Great and Normal People. UPC customers will be able […]
Disney will reportedly up the price of sports streamer ESPN+ to US$5.99. According to The Verge, which claims to have viewed internal documents, the price increase of a dollar will only impact the monthly subscription while the annual US$49.99 cost will remain unchanged. Existing monthly subscribers will keep the US$4.99 fee through to August 2021 […]
Chinese streaming giant iQiyi has struck a content licensing deal with channels operator and producer Insight TV. The 12-month agreement will see 125 episodes of Insight’s library of original content become available to the streamer’s 560 million monthly active users, with shows such as Born To, Droners, Morbidelli Rising and Supercar Blondie: Living The Dream […]
The churn rate of US OTT services increased to 41% in Q1 2020 up from 35% in Q1 2019. According to Parks Associates, an increasing number of US broadband households cancelled at least one OTT subscription in the early part of the year, with a significant number also utilising the free trials offered by streamers […]
The number of SVOD users paying for their subscription via mobile operators is expected to reach 170 million by 2025. According to new figures from Digital TV Research, the gross number of smartphone SVOD subscribers will double across 138 countries between 2019-25, with the total climbing by 25 million in 2020 alone. Telcos are increasingly […]
Streaming is the future of Disney’s TV business – at least that’s the message sent out in the UK with the company making the call to shut down its kids channels at the end of September. After 25 years of broadcasting programming that defined many a millennial childhood – with shows like Boy Meets World, […]
The inevitable dip in SVOD viewer figures has begun to manifest as parts of the US begin to relax its stay-in-place measures. According to a new study of 4,000 Americans from Strategy Analytics, 42% of respondents used Netflix in May, compared to 50% in April and 47% in March. Netflix has been the star of […]
Chinese entertainment giant Tencent is poised to acquire the key assets of indebted pan-Asian streamer Iflix for an undisclosed sum. Tencent will take control of iFlix’s content, resources and tech, but not its debt, according to BNN Bloomberg, in a move that would expand the reach of its WeTV streaming service in the region. “This […]
DTVE: the week in view – Will @daznglobal's international rollout withstand pandemic pressures?… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
12 July 2020 @ 19:00:00 UTC
ICYMI: @BBC sets out launch plan for limited free licence for over-75s digitaltveurope.com/2020/07/10/bbc… https://t.co/iHAjnKyVM4
12 July 2020 @ 17:00:00 UTC
On July 22 @awscloud will be delivering the webinar "Cloud Video Essentials: An Architects Guide to Live and VOD wo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
12 July 2020 @ 14:00:01 UTC
ICYMI: #Hamilton a huge draw for @disneyplus, CEO Chapek tells staff digitaltveurope.com/2020/07/10/ham… https://t.co/kgNQnvpM7t
11 July 2020 @ 16:00:00 UTC
Still time to register for @Gracenotetweets webinar next week "Age of Discovery: can effective recommendation power… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
11 July 2020 @ 14:00:00 UTC
