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Research: Disney Plus Hits 22M Mobile App Downloads in First Four Weeks (Variety)
The Force remains strong with Disney Plus: The streaming service has now had 22 million global downloads of its mobile app in the four-week period since its initial launch, accordi... More
MLB Extends Sony Gaming Partnership (SportsPro)
Major League Baseball and its players association have extended their partnership with Sony Interactive Entertainment and videogame developer San Diego Studio in a multi-year gamin... More
AMC Networks’ Niche Streaming Services Pass 2 Million Subscribers (THR)
AMC has made its targeted SVOD services a focal point of its strategy, with CEO Josh Sapan telling investors in October that the addressable market for its niche services is “in ... More
Sony, Verizon Demo 5G in Live Sports Production (RTN)
Sony Imaging Products & Solutions, Sony Mobile Communications and Verizon have joined forces with NBC Sports to test how 5G comms networks can change the way live sports broadcasts... More
Premier League Brings Record Number of Sign-Ups to Amazon Prime (The Guardian)
The prospect of Amazon mounting a major challenge to Sky and BT at the next multibillion pound Premier League rights auction has increased, after the streaming of 10 top-flight Eng... More
Streaming Wars Heat Up Rerun Market as New Services Stock Up on Hits (Variety)
In a year in which more than 500 scripted series are on the air and new streaming services seem to debut nearly monthly, some of the biggest money being thrown around for content h... More
Will 5G Super-Charge OTT? (Media Post)
Nearly two-thirds (62%) said they’ll likely replace their home internet with 5G Wi-Fi service (here’s that first “if”)… if it delivers speeds equivalent to those of fiber... More
Verizon Media, Serena Williams Launch Shoppable Video Series (MESA)
Verizon Media together with global sports icon Serena Williams announced an exclusive shoppable video series expanding S by Serena’s “Everybody, Every Body” content released ... More
Atlantic Broadband Announces Amazon Prime Video App on Select TiVo Devices (MESA)
Atlantic Broadband has partnered with TiVo to deliver the Prime Video app to select TiVo devices. Atlantic Broadband customers with an Amazon Prime membership can now stream Prime ... More
China Streaming or China Dreaming? The Outlook for Foreign VOD (China Law Blog)
The numbers coming out of China continue to amaze. There are 855 million digital consumers in China and they have more than twice as many internet users as the US has people. The C... More
Mobile Game Spending Hits Single-Day Record of $70M on Black Friday (THR)
User spending on mobile games in the U.S. hit an all-time single-day high of $69.7 million on Black Friday. Combined revenue across both Google Play and App Store was up 25 percent... More
Streaming Wars: CEO Tom Leighton Says Akamai Can Handle Streaming Boom (Variety)
Cloud computing company Akamai hit a milestone last month when its content delivery network experienced volumes of data exceeding 100 terabytes per second for the first time ever. ... More
Fox to Use AWS for Cable, Satellite Broadcasts (Bloomberg)
Fox is turning to Amazon.com’s cloud to route video to the broadcaster’s cable and streaming customers, the latest Digital Age tie-up between the high-tech newcomer and big med... More
Get Ready for 5G to Make Your Phone Even More Addictive (Fast Company)
5G wireless may not change everything, as a lot of the hype around this technology loves to promise. But a new report suggests it’s going to make our smartphones even more of a s... More
Amazon, Verizon Partner to Improve 5G Speeds (CNBC)
Amazon is using next-generation 5G wireless networks to help businesses download data from the cloud faster. At Amazon Web Services’ annual re:Invent conference, CEO Andy Jassy s... More
Ampere: Netflix Pay TV Partnerships Reach 300M (Digital TV Europe)
Over 300 million pay TV homes worldwide now have the opportunity to subscribe to Netflix through their set-top boxes after the SVOD leader added 15 new partners this year, accordin... More
Why is Every Streaming Service Using the Same Pricing Model? (HBR)
Remember the not-so-long ago days when Netflix was the king of streaming services? Back then it was an easy segment for the company to command: “For the pleasure of viewing our c... More
What the Streaming Wars Mean for the Future of TV (Bloomberg)
If all goes as planned, by mid-2020 four of the most valuable companies on the S&P 500 will have introduced streaming services in less than a year. They’re spending billions of d... More
Adobe: Cyber Monday Shoppers on Track to Hit a Record $9.4B (CNBC)
Holiday shoppers aren’t headed to the store today. But they’re still spending. Cyber Monday shoppers have already spent, $473 million in online sales as of 9:00 a.m. ET, accord... More
Starz Wants Streaming App to be the ‘Edgy’ International Companion to Netflix (Digiday)
Starz has launched its standalone streaming app, StarzPlay, in the U.K., Brazil, Germany, France and Mexico. It also announced plans to expand it into 20 further international cou... More