OTT/Streaming
Netflix Tries Out Mobile-Only Subscription Plan in India (Variety)
Streaming giant Netflix is testing a mobile-only subscription in India that costs half of its basic plan. Netflix India’s monthly plans begin at INR500 ($7.27), and the mobile-on... More
Spain’s La Liga Launches Pioneering OTT Service to Promote Spanish Sports Federations (Variety)
Spain’s top Soccer league, La Liga, has unveiled a new OTT service, LaLigaSportsTV. The service provides audiences with free coverage of major and minor Spanish sports content st... More
AWS Releases Real-Time Subtitling Solution for Live Streaming (TVB Europe)
Amazon Web Services has released a Live Streaming with Automated Multi-Language Subtitling solution for automatically generating multi-language subtitles for live streaming in real... More
Report: Average Spending on OTT Services Has Stayed Flat for 3 Years (Fierce Video)
Despite an ever-growing array of OTT streaming video services in the U.S., the average amount of money consumers spend on OTT services has stayed flat for the past 3 years. Accordi... More
Apple Video, TV, News Subscription Service Ready to Go (Variety)
The day has nearly arrived for Apple to show the world whether there’s any fire behind the smoke of its streaming service. Apple has kept a tight lid on most of the details of it... More
Disney Sets Sights on Streaming Now That $71B Fox Deal is Official (Fierce Video)
The Walt Disney Company has officially taken ownership of several 21st Century Fox entertainment assets early this morning after its $71.3 billion acquisition was finalized. Now, t... More
Apple Jumping Into Streaming Video With a Huge Library of Shows, Films (The Verge)
Apple is getting ready to launch a TV and movie streaming service, and that means putting together an expansive catalog of original content. The company is widely expected to unvei... More
Premier League Live Streamers Jailed (Forbes)
Three men have received sentences totalling 17 years for illegally streaming Premier League soccer games in the UK. Premium content from more than 20 broadcasters around the world ... More
Why Netflix is Diving Deeper Into Interactive Storytelling (Fast Company)
Following on the heels of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch–the social-media sensation, choose-your-own-adventure film that Netflix launched last December—the company is leaning furth... More
MLB’s T-Mobile Extension Includes Free OTT Subscription (SportsPro)
Major League Baseball has signed a four-year extension to its partnership with the telecommunications giant T-Mobile designed to grow its over-the-top service MLB.TV subscriber bas... More
Netflix Will Not Join Apple TV Service (CNBC)
Netflix, the world’s dominant streaming service, will not make its TV shows and movies available through Apple upcoming video offering, Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings said... More
ESPN Streaming Service to Become Exclusive Distributor of UFC Pay-Per-View Fights (THR)
ESPN is deepening its partnership with UFC, extending its existing $1.5 billion deal two years to 2025 and making ESPN+ the exclusive distributor of UFC pay-per-view events in the ... More
Study: Nearly Half of U.S. Consumers Frustrated by Streaming Explosion (Variety)
Streaming entertainment is smacking into the wall of the paradox of choice — and the cost to consumers of piecing multiple services together.... More
CANAL+ Myanmar Deploys NAGRA’s Conax GO Live Multiscreen OTT Solution (MESA)
NAGRA announced the launch of its Conax GO Live multiscreen OTT solution with Canal+ International subsidiary, Canal+ Myanmar FG. The announcement marks the first cloud deployment ... More
Netflix to Add Age Ratings to More Content on Its U.K. Service (Variety)
Netflix is adding age ratings to more content on its U.K. service after partnering with the British Board of Film Classification. The goal of the new collaboration “is to work to... More
Apple Races to Get Studios Signed Up for New Streaming Service (Bloomberg)
Apple, after teasing investors for months about its ambitions to become a services company, is getting ready to showcase plans for new video and news products. All it needs now is ... More
Netflix is Pursuing More Interactive Content (TechCrunch)
On the heels of its groundbreaking foray into interactive storytelling with the choose-your-own-adventure style “Black Mirror” episode, Bandersnatch, Netflix will look to produ... More
France’s Canal Plus Launches New OTT Service Dedicated to Series (Variety)
French pay-TV group Canal Plus is launching Canal Plus Series, an OTT channel dedicated to scripted shows, which will bow Tuesday with a slightly cheaper subscription fee than Netf... More
NBC News Readies May Launch of Streaming Video Service (Variety)
NBC News already pumps out stories and headlines via broadcast and cable TV. Soon it will do so on a sustained basis via streaming video. The NBCUniversal unit plans to launch NBC ... More
Disney+ Will House Disney’s Entire Motion Picture Library (CNBC)
The Walt Disney Co.'s new streaming service Disney+ will include movies from Disney's vault that have been periodically withheld from public purchase, CEO Bob Iger confirmed during... More
