OTT/Streaming
Bob Iger: Why Disney is Betting Big on Streaming (Knowledge@Wharton)
Where the company needs to go next, Iger said, is into direct-to-consumer platforms — namely streaming. According to a recent profile in The Hollywood Reporter, in addition to th... More
Report: MLB Teams to Iron Out Local Streaming Rights Deals With RSNs (SportsPro)
Ahead of the 2020 season, Major League Baseball’s 30 franchises will have to negotiate new streaming rights arrangements with their individual regional sports networks (RSNs), ac... 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
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
Dolby Presents Dolby Atmos Music and J Balvin (MESA)
Dolby unveiled the second commercial of its first Dolby Atmos Music campaign featuring the LATIN GRAMMY award-winning and global chart-topping Colombian reggaeton artist, J Balvin.... More
Survey: Music Streaming is Americans’ Most-Wanted Subscription Service (Billboard)
Consumers’ most-wanted subscription isn’t Amazon Prime or Netflix but rather music streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music, according to a new survey conducted by Mu... More
Disney Plus Tops 15M App Downloads, Still Hasn’t Slowed Down Netflix (Variety)
Disney Plus has been going gangbusters two weeks after its debut, notwithstanding the technical issues at launch. But the strong interest in the Mouse House’s new streaming servi... More
The Battle for Long-Form VOD Supremacy in the UK is Heating Up (eMarketer)
For UK video platforms, competition around premium content is intensifying, with digital services increasingly coming to the fore.... More
The Ticking Time Bomb That Could Blow Up Hollywood’s Streaming Era (THR)
There's a joke circulating these days, and it isn't particularly funny: Millions of people are ditching cable because the bill is too high and no one can watch all that programming... More
Streaming TV’s Battle of the Binge: ‘Burn’ All Episodes or Take a ‘Weekly Pulse’? (THR)
Disney+ bets on a seven-day rollout, Netflix sticks to all-at-once drops and Apple TV+ experiments with both as the strategies spark a data debate and “a gut-level conversation..... More
On-Demand Audio, Video Streams Pass 1T This Year for First Time in U.S. (Billboard)
Even in an era where streaming records are seemingly broken with regularity, there are still thresholds that are worth stopping to acknowledge. And last week served up one of them.... More
Why Podcasts Could Be a Differentiator for HBO Max (Motley Fool)
The better a streaming company's tools for figuring out what people watch and why, the better positioned that streaming company is to come out with the next big streaming hit. And ... More
What’s Apple’s Streaming Strategy? Think of It as Content as Catnip (Los Angeles Magazine)
It’s hard to grasp how Apple—albeit, one of America’s most successful companies—expects to compete in the streaming wars when it’s offering a fraction of the viewing choi... More
Dolby Launches Atmos Music Consumer Campaign
Dolby has launched its first consumer campaign around its multi-dimensional sound technology, Dolby Atmos, with the first campaign video debuting Nov. 24 at the 2019 American Music... More
DAZN Up to 8M Global Subscribers (SportsPro)
Global sports streaming service DAZN is closing in on eight million subscribers worldwide, having almost doubled its customer base in the past six months, SportsPro has learnt. Acc... More
Live Streaming Subs to Soar Over the Next Five Years (DTE)
Subscriptions to live streaming services are predicted to hit 91 million over the next five years. According to a new study, the advancement in the live streaming market is being d... More
What Broadcasters Must Know to Make the Most of the Streaming Wars (Media Post)
The last few weeks have been dominated by the arrival of AppleTV+, Britbox and Disney+, making it seem not a day goes by without another installment in the streaming wars. With a g... More
Applicaster Selected by Nexstar Media Group’s WGN America to Deliver Direct-to-Consumer Strategy (MESA)
Applicaster has partnered with Nexstar Media Group-owned, WGN America, to build the media organization’s first ever mobile experience. The new WGN America app was developed using... More
