Long in the works, Paramount+ was officially shown off to the press this week ahead of its March 4 launch. While CBS All Access was on the peripheries of the streaming zeitgeist, Paramount+ is ViacomCBS’s big play to enter the same sphere as its domestic broadcasting rivals who have launched HBO Max and Peacock in […]
Ahead of the launch of Star, its sixth content hub within Disney+, the company last week announced that it had surpassed its four-year subscriber target in just 14 months with a total of 94.9 million users globally. If that wasn’t good enough for Disney, an industry-shaking projection came this week that Disney+ will overtake Netflix for […]
While the focus of recent weeks has been the continued growth of US SVOD services – be it Disney’s rapid approach towards 100 million subscribers, HBO Max’s LATAM expansion or ViacomCBS’s heavy promotion of Paramount+ during the Super Bowl – an arguably undercovered aspect of the market is the explosion of free ad-supported streamers. According […]
An embattled BBC set out its stall this week in defense of a funding model which has become a target for the UK government. From the earliest days of his time as prime minister, Boris Johnson has had reform at the broadcaster squarely in his sights. Following comments on the campaign trail that his government […]
With just over six months on the market, NBCUniversal’s Peacock is now at 33 million users. I previously described Peacock as “the low-risk streamer presenting significant results”, but this week’s deal to effectively buy the WWE Network in a deal worth a reported US$1 billion shows that the Comcast-owned NBCU is willing to splash the […]
Netflix has finally surpassed its latest milestone of 200 million subscribers, cementing it as the biggest company in streaming – and it’s not even close. Disney, considered by many as the first major competitor to Netflix on a global scale, sits at a relatively paltry 137 million subscribers globally across its services like Disney+, Hulu […]
As Disney launches WandaVision – the first Disney+ original from Marvel Studios – the company kicks off a year which should cement it as the de facto streaming rival to Netflix. At a time when originals are largely considered to be the selling point of streaming services, it is impressive that Disney+ has amassed more […]
2021 has started with a bang for Discovery. Ending the year by announcing the global roll-out plans for its SVOD discovery+, the company launched the streamer in the US and MENA this week as it looks to flex its ‘SUV’ of a service. In addition, Discovery has also started the year by announcing a 12-country […]
In what was one of the most unpredictable and volatile years in modern history for society, politics and industries of all shapes and sizes, there was only one sector which captured mainstream attention for its enduring and enhanced success – video on demand services. Like it or not, the bellwether of the industry has become […]
The UK’s broadcasting regulator Ofcom sent out a stark warning this week that the country’s traditional public service broadcasters need a radical shakeup to laws and regulations in order to survive in an online world. On the basis that the existing rules and regulations are outdated and stem from the early days of the internet […]
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