OTT/Streaming

 

Walmart Abandons Plans for Video Streaming Service, Will Focus Instead on Vudu (CNBC)

Here’s a plot twist — one company is deciding not to launch a new streaming video service. At a time when NBC, Disney, AT&T, Viacom, Apple and others are considering subscripti... More

Ooyala: OTT Market Far From Saturation (Rapid TV News)

There will be more than 777 million global SVOD subscriptions by 2023, more than double from 2017 according to Ooyala’s new State of the Broadcast Industry 2019 report, which als... More

Will Apple Succeed in the Video Streaming Business? (Forbes)

How Large Could Streaming Service Be For Apple?. It’s not clear what business model Apple will follow for the streaming service. While it’s most likely that the company will ma... More

Sinclair Launches Ad-Supported Streaming Service STIRR (MCN)

While it hopes to one day reach the nation’s mobile consumer with ATSC 3.0-based “one-to-many” broadcast technology, Sinclair Broadcast Group wants to program smart phones in... More

OTT Innovation to Grow in 2019 (TVB Europe)

New offerings will enhance OTT video services this year according to a new report. The analysis also predicts that traditional TV will continue to transform for today’s digital l... More

Guigo TV Selects Globecast as Content Partner for New Brazilian OTT Platform (TV Technology)

Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, announces it has partnered with Såo Paulo, Brazil-based Guigo TV to provide 12 channels in Brazil for Guigo TV’s new OTT plat... More

Ooyala: OTT Market is Far from Oversaturation (MESA)

While there’s a limit to how many SVOD services users are ready to pay for, it is far from being reached. This is according to Ooyala’s new State of the Broadcast Industry 2019... More

NBCUniversal Joins the Streaming Wars (TVB Europe)

NBCUniversal will launch its own streaming service in early 2020. Sky will be provide the service to their customers, following its acquisition by NBCU’s parent company Comcast. ... More

CBS Films Being Folded Into CBS Entertainment Group, Focus Shifting to Streaming (Variety)

CBS Films will be folded into CBS Entertainment Group over the next 12 months, Variety has learned. Before that change takes place, the company is committed to releasing its next f... More

Amazon Will Let You Stream Free Movies, TV Shows Through IMDb (CNBC)

IMDb, the film and TV website owned by Amazon, is launching a free streaming video channel that will be available in the U.S. on its website and Amazon Fire TV devices, the company... More

La Liga 123 to Air Globally on YouTube with English Commentary (Deadline)

Spanish soccer is continuing its global march with games from its second tier set to be broadcast on YouTube. La Liga has revealed that games from La Liga 123, otherwise known as t... More

AT&T CFO Touts WarnerMedia Library as Competitive Edge in Streamer Battle (THR)

As WarnerMedia gets into the race for streaming audiences alongside Netflix and Amazon Prime, John Stephens, finance chief for parent AT&T, on Wednesday touted his newly acquired s... More

Canal+ ‘Planning Relaunch’ of CanalPlay SVOD Service (Digital TV Europe)

Canal+ plans to relaunch its subscription video-on-demand service CanalPlay in the spring with a €10 monthly fee and possibly with a new name. The pay TV operator is planning a r... More

Twitter to Livestream NBA Games – Featuring a Camera Feed of a Single, Fan-Voted Player (Variety)

Twitter is doubling down on its strategy of complementing TV rather than trying to eat into television audiences. Under a new partnership inked by the NBA, Turner Sports and Twitte... More

Netflix Ramps Up Local Content Production (Advanced Television)

Netflix is aggressively ramping up global productions, particularly in Europe and Asia according to a report from Ampere Analysis. Netflix has seen impressive growth in these marke... More

Netflix Opens Eyes in Hollywood as ‘Bird Box’ Soars (WSJ)

Netflix rarely releases data on viewership of its content. But in the case of “Bird Box,” a tale about a resourceful mother protecting children from a homicidal force, the comp... More

PGA Tour, Twitter Expand Live-Streaming Partnership (Sports Pro)

The PGA Tour has renewed and expanded its partnership with Twitter in a deal that will see the social media giant globally live-stream and distribute close to 140 hours of action f... More

Hulu Tops 25 Million Subscribers (Variety)

Hulu is keeping its pedal to metal in the streaming TV race: The company said it ended 2018 with more than 25 million total subscribers, a net gain of 8 million for the year. The 4... More

Amazon, Hulu, Netflix Nab Golden Globes as Streaming Services Take on Hollywood Incumbents (GeekWire)

Streaming companies made progress in their quest to unseat the entertainment industry’s aging kings Sunday, winning several Golden Globes awards. Amazon and Hulu nabbed early vic... More

BBC Proposes Major Overhaul of Digital Service iPlayer (Deadline)

The British public broadcaster has launched a public consultation on its plans to “reinvent” the iPlayer. It is hoping to make its key dramas and comedies as well as non-script... More

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