‘The right streaming strategy at the right time’ is how Comcast CEO Brian Roberts has described Peacock, NBCUniversal’s OTT platform which launched this summer. The streamer, which offers both on-demand and live viewing, is available in a traditional-looking US$9.99 package for ad-free viewing, along with an ad-supported US$4.99 tier available at no extra cost for […]
After little more than six months on the market, Quibi has announced that it is to shut down. The news came as a surprise to many in the industry – not that the platform failed to make an impact, but rather the speed in which the streamer managed to crash and burn. In a letter […]
There’s nothing like a global pandemic to give you a bit of perspective on the future. That at least seems to be the case for Disney, which this week announced the biggest corporate reshuffle in its recent history to put its DTC streaming business at the heart of the company. It is nothing short […]
As the football world currently focuses on the international stage, the English Premier League has made a call of continuing its blanket broadcasting strategy until the end of October at the least, with a number of matches available on pay-per-view. The ‘blitz spirit’-esque response to the initial wave of Covid-19 that came in the form […]
In anticipation of what is likely to be a significantly more modest holiday season than usual, a handful of the biggest players in the streaming device space all have announced new products in the past couple of weeks. Chief among these is Google, producing the first major update to its Chromecast range in seven years. […]
The UK government deflated broadcasters, sports leagues and fans alike when it announced that there will be at least six more months of COVID-19-related restrictions, including the pausing of getting crowds back into stadiums. Speaking on BBC Breakfast earlier this week, Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, said: “It was the case that we were […]
Speaking at a Goldman Sachs event this week, AT&T CEO John Stankey said that he “couldn’t be more pleased” with the performance of HBO Max, its Netflix-rivalling subscription streamer. The SVOD hit four million users after a couple of weeks (with one in four of those being existing HBO linear TV subscribers who gained access […]
Sports streamer DAZN has been very transparent in its recent strategy of refocusing on its core markets and this was brought into focus again this week with a number of deals it has tied up in Germany. Chief among these was a high-profile launch on Vodafone’s GigaTV pay TV platforms, the GigaTV 4K Box and […]
Liberty Global made an intriguing announcement this week in the launch of its new set-top box, the 4K Mini TV Box. Launching first in Poland via UPC Polska, the was Commscope-manufactured unit promises to be Liberty Global’s ‘greenest-ever set-top box’ – a device made from 35% recycled plastic with no single-use plastics in its […]
In the week when ViacomCBS was reportedly mulling adding a now-ubiquitous mathematical symbol to its upcoming streaming service, the company also launched a cut-price bundle for Apple TV+ customers in a move that has big implications for both companies. The news will see Apple offer a bundle of ViacomCBS’s US SVODs – CBS All […]
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