OTT/Streaming
YouTube Reaches 120M People Watching on TV Screens Monthly (CNBC)
With more people in their living rooms streaming shows and movies during the pandemic, the connected TV space has seen astronomical growth.... More
CHESA Helps Spotify Scale Out Post Production
CHESA worked with Ben Meadors, Manager of Post Production at Spotify, to design a system so now on-premise content is stored on Open Drives shared storage in multiple geographic lo... More
Red Bee Supports Content Management for SALTO in France
French SVOD platform SALTO is relying on Red Bee to deliver Digital Asset Management, Post-Production for promotional material and Quality Check of assets being added to the platfo... More
Dolby Spotlighted for Innovation in Music
Dolby chosen for democratising and innovating music and mastering tools in Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021. (more…)... More
AVOD Platforms Forecast to Grow to $18B by 2025 (MP)
Advertising video-on-demand platforms - a subset of all connected TV - are expected to see skyrocketing growth over the next four years, rising to $17.8 billion, according to a new... More
How Female Executives are Leading the International Streaming Business (Variety)
Streaming heavyweights have big global aspirations, and they’re relying on a growing cadre of women to realize them.... More
Film Festival Flix Curates Women in Cinema Collection, Highlighting Female-led Filmmaking Teams
The Women in Cinema collection on Film Festival Flix is comprised of seventeen critically-acclaimed and award-winning films: written, directed, and/or otherwise created by female-l... More
BritBox to Launch on Amazon Prime Video Channels (BTN)
The launch will make BritBox available on over 40 million devices, representing 90% of video-on-demand homes.... More
Latin America to Add 63M SVOD Subscriptions Over Five Years (RTN)
The Latin America market will have 116 million subscription video-on-demand customers by 2026, up from 53 million recorded at the end of 2020.... More
Research: What the New Streamer Really Wants
An Amdocs survey shows expectations around streaming have changed. What does this mean for communications service providers and content creators?... More
Europe’s New Rules of Engagement With Streamers Making Slow But Steady Progress (Variety)
The new rules — for which the formal deadline was January 2021, but there is some leeway — will involve investment obligations and in some countries, setting out terms of trade... More
Amazon Wants to be the Exclusive Provider of All Thursday NFL Games Starting in 2023 (CNBC)
Amazon is open to producing all Thursday night NFL games for its Prime Video streaming platform.... More
Viewers Will Pay No More Than $15.16 for Premium VOD Movies (BTN)
A new report is warning operators are fast approaching the ceiling for the amount viewers are willing to pay in purchasing a VOD movie.... More
Record Year for Smart Speakers (DTE)
More than 150 million smart speakers were sold in 2020, a new report has revealed. A positive holiday shopping season contributed to a positive year in which the market grew to a r... More
How Disney Plus Wins by Breaking All the Rules of Streaming
Disney has the luxury of an enormous library that allows it to sit back on its haunches and not worry too much about generating new content.... More
Las Cruces Film Festival Brings ‘Reimagining Borders’ to Film Festival Flix
The Virtual Film Festival model has proven successful for many Festivals, from big names like Sundance, to those niche fests you may not have heard much about, like the Silicon Val... More
Have We Hit Peak Streaming? (The Verge)
Paramount Plus is just the latest, and arguably the last, big entry in the space. Has it finally hit the point where there’s too much choice?... More
North American OTT Market to Double in Revenue by 2026 (DTE)
The US, which is the world’s most mature OTT market and home to the world’s leading SVOD services, will see revenues more than double despite its maturity.... More
Third New App in as Many Weeks for Film Festival Flix
The company is adding an Android TV app, available in the Google Play store, to the multitude of ways that patrons can watch. (more…)... More
Music Streaming Revenues Cross $10B Mark (Variety)
It marks the fifth consecutive year of growth for the industry, as paid subscription services continue to expand their reach among the music-listening public.... More
