OTT/Streaming

NBC Sports plans to stream more than 1,800 hours of Winter Olympics coverage in February from Pyeongchang, South Korea — the most NBC Sports has ever done for the Winter Olympics... More

We know that Apple is moving into the premium content business, but we don't know why or what overall strategy this serves. I see two different strategies — one boring and one... More

Amazon is understood to have snapped up the UK TV rights to the US Open tennis tournament, in a move likely to cause further speculation that it is a potential competitor in the up... More

What's the starting point in building a robust digital platform? "Content owners and content rights holders are racing to offer direct-to-consumer OTT services, and many of these n... More

Time Inc., in another big bet on pivoting its business toward video, is launching Sports Illustrated TV, its first over-the-top subscription-video service. SI TV, priced at $4.99 p... More

Crown Media Family Networks said its subscription video-on-demand streaming service, Hallmark Movies Now, is launching on Amazon Channels. The service gives Amazon Prime members wh... More

Streaming video boosted China’s games and social media giant Tencent in the three months to the end of September. Revealing figures for Tencent Video for the first time, the comp... More

Ooyala today debuted a new set of enhancements to Ooyala Live, its end-to-end solution for effortless creation, management, delivery and monetization of live streamed events and li... More

During The Walt Disney Company’s quarterly earnings call on November 9th, CEO Bob Iger casually dropped some news. The tidbit that made the biggest headlines was that the company... More

Time Warner's HBO said Monday it has launched direct-to-consumer services in four Central European countries. The HBO Go subscription VOD service became available as a direct-to... More

Finishing the third quarter with 52.77 million subscribers in the U.S., Netflix is the biggest OTT service in the country, according to a top 10 ranking put out by research company... More

New consumer research from Parks Associates showed 53 percent of U.S. broadband households subscribe to both a pay TV service and at least one OTT video service. “Many OTT servic... More

Looking to make a stronger connection with consumers who are on the go, Vivendi has made the U.S. debut of Studio+, a short-form premium video service that sells for $3.99 per mont... More

Global consumer spend on digital content will reach $202 billion by 2018, up by 10% on this year’s projected total with subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) a key driver of growth... More

Netflix has become synonymous with binge-watching—the act of roaring through a full season of Stranger Things with Seamless as your copilot. The advent of this routine has undoub... More

2018 feels like a tipping point. Every major television company will have a dedicated streaming service by the end of next year, while the powerful technology trio of Google, Amazo... More

In the past 25 years the cost of broadcast rights for English Premier League soccer has surged thirtyfold as deep-pocketed media companies have grown to depend on live sports to wi... More

Branded content is undergoing its own pivot to video, putting the squeeze on traditional publishers that were already facing rising competition for those marketing dollars and batt... More

Deluxe announced today that it has strengthened its suite of managed services from Deluxe Distribution with new OTT capabilities by adding Smart Video Engine to the video supply ch... More

Revenue and profit for CBS both grew slightly in the third quarter compared with the same period a year ago, the company said Thursday, but Wall Street's initial reaction was that ... More