OTT/Streaming

It's no longer news that US consumers are ditching traditional TV in favor of over-the-top (OTT) video services like Netflix. But, according to our latest forecast, that rate is ac... More

Adidas and Twitter are teaming up on Friday Night Stripes, a slate of eight livestreamed high-school-football games featuring nationally ranked teams. The games will be available t... More

Juventus has announced the launch of Juventus TV, an in-house OTT platform and new TV channel. Juventus TV will replace the Italian football club’s linear TV channel, Juventus Te... More

La Liga has confirmed a landmark rights deal with Facebook that will allow fans in the Indian subcontinent to watch every game for free on the social media network for the next thr... More

Netflix’s promotional tagline is “See what’s next” — a nod to the numerous titles that are instantly available to watch at the click of a remote. For the streaming entert... More

Seeking new ways to attract eyeballs in an increasingly fragmented video market, NBCUniversal is developing a free video app that would entice viewers to sample programming in exch... More

The warnings are plentiful over the past several years: There are too many premium-scripted TV shows. The question remains: How can every new TV show gain support? Well, it can’t... More

I was in Europe this past week. While in Amsterdam, I noted a campaign singing the praises of watching soccer live on TV. This has been TV’s most potent and frequently used weapo... More

As TV viewers spend more time on streaming video platforms, big media companies have gotten more serious about building their own subscription streaming services — or “direct t... More

Roku is today bringing its free, streaming entertainment destination, The Roku Channel, to non-Roku devices for the first time, with a launch on both the web and on select Samsung ... More

ESPN has secured the rights in the US to Serie A, Italian club soccer’s top flight. The exclusive, multi-year deal will see more than 340 matches per season shown on ESPN+, the s... More

The Laver Cup, the men’s tennis tournament between a European and World team, has announced a deal with Amazon Prime Video. As part of the agreement, Prime Video will provide cov... More

Jeffrey Katzenberg has a billion to play with for his new short-form video platform. The money will go toward the executive’s dream of upending the entertainment industry with hi... More

Universal, Warner Bros, Sony and other big record labels filed a lawsuit on Friday (Aug. 3) against two Russia-based illegal stream-ripping websites, FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com. The w... More

CBS All Access is gearing up for its largest slate of originals to date next year with 10 series on deck. That’s a fraction of the volume served up by its larger competitors on t... More

As a result of the larger cord-cutting trend, more consumers are watching TV streamed over the internet. And the size of this streaming TV audience is rapidly growing. According to... More

Prime Video is coming to Comcast's Xfinity. The cable giant has inked a deal with Amazon to offer its Prime Video service to customers via its Xfinity X1 platform. The deal gives X... More

Even though the majority of video consumers in the US view content from a variety of sources, in both physical and digital formats, 17% relied solely on SVOD services to view video... More

YouTube only rebranded its YouTube Red subscription service as YouTube Premium just a couple of months ago, but it is already tweaking its model, opening the paywall a crack in a b... More

CBS is today debuting a new portfolio of streaming services designed to deliver local news to cord cutters and other digital media consumers. The services, branded CBSN Local, will... More