OTT/Streaming

Hard as it may be for an industry that has long enjoyed a blank check in the form of cable revenues, we’re quickly headed towards a world where à la carte TV simply more more ec... More

Will Smith and Pedro Almodovar jostled over it. Silicon Valley executive Ted Sarandos defended it. The Oscar winner Alejandro Inarritu boasted about it. And the people who run the ... More

Former Warner Music Group Chairman/CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr., who stepped down from the post in 2012 after selling the company to a group led by Russian billionaire Len Blavatnik’s ... More

Facebook has joined the fight against illegal video-streaming devices. The social behemoth recently added a new category to products it prohibits users to sell under its commerce p... More

Netflix released an analysis of customer viewing patterns in 22 countries over a six-month period — showing that audiences worldwide skew toward comedies, dramas, thrillers and n... More

The market for premium video and content is rapidly shifting in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region with a number of new over-the-top (OTT) service providers now operating in places lik... More

Prime Focus Technologies will be showcasing the company’s innovative Hybrid Cloud-enabled CLEAR Media Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software at BroadcastAsia 2017. CLEAR is ... More

Netflix might not be returning to the Cannes Film Festival next year, but its presence at this year’s fest has garnered the lion’s share of digital chatter. A big reason for al... More

While studios and theater operators engage in talks about offering new-release movies earlier into the home through premium VOD, Walt Disney Studios isn’t interested in altering ... More

Hulu is adding some new features just weeks after the OTT specialist launched a new experience alongside the beta debut of a live TV service that includes a cloud DVR component. Ti... More

Viacom and other entertainment-focused programmers are in “very advanced discussions” with cable and satellite companies to offer a bundle without news and sports costing $20 o... More

Europe is the next frontier for Netflix: The streaming giant is hiring hundreds of workers and spending billions of dollars on local content as it seeks new viewers across the Atla... More

Not only is Netflix moving in on the traditional industry's turf by financing and releasing films like Bright and Okja, but the "binge watching" phenomenon that the company pioneer... More

Amazon is going to start shipping TV sets powered by the company’s own smart TV operating system soon: The company began listing Element’s Fire TV Edition TV sets for pre-order... More

Facebook and Major League Baseball are partnering to broadcast live games on Friday nights, it was announced on Thursday. The 20-game agreement starts with tomorrow’s Cincinnati ... More

India holds strong potential for streaming media players. Estimates suggest that the country will have 500 million smartphone users and 650 million internet users by 2020. As deman... More

Disney remains “bullish” about the growing number of over-the-top (OTT) TV services, including the new virtual multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD) services launch... More

Pure-play over-the-top video services and authenticated TVE Everywhere offerings share a lot technologies, but they are, at their core, very different animals, especially as it rel... More

Would you pay more to get your Netflix fix? How about on weekends, when the urge to binge strikes hardest? A price hike could well be in the works with the streaming giant quietly ... More

Netflix, Amazon and Hulu will be paying a lot more in writers’ residuals under the new WGA film and TV contract. New details, outlined by WGA West, reveal that high-budget shows ... More