OTT/Streaming

 

Canal Plus in Talks to Carry Netflix (TVB Europe)

French pay-TV company Canal Plus is reportedly in talks to add Netflix to its content offering. According to a report in Le Figaro, the talks are well advanced and an agreement cou... More

Netflix’s ‘The Irishman’ Gets Select Theatrical Opening (Media Post)

Netflix is giving a select number of theaters an exclusive four-week window of its highly touted movie “The Irishman” a month before the film is streamed on its subscription vi... More

Spotify Tests an In-App ‘Create Podcast’ Button (The Verge)

Spotify wants as many podcasts on its platform as possible, and it’s now testing a new button within its app that’ll encourage people to create one. Code leaker Jane Wong spott... More

How Spain Became a Case Study for the Global Streaming Wars (THR)

Netflix may have been the first to crack the key European market with locally produced hit 'Money Heist,' but the streamer is now facing heated competition from the likes of Amazon... More

HBO Max is on a Buying Spree, but NBCUniversal’s Streaming Slate a Mystery (Variety)

HBO Max has been on a buying spree, with the nascent streamer snatching up a number of high-profile original projects as it visits the WarnerMedia vault to extract existing propert... More

Disney+ is Cheap, Chock-Full of Content and Poised for a Massive November Launch (CNBC)

With a little more than two months before the debut of its streaming service, Disney dazzled its hardcore fans with celebrity guests and teaser trailers over the weekend at its D23... More

CBS and Viacom Have Different Streaming Strategies – Can They Combine to Win the Streaming Wars? (NBC News)

The first order of business is to expand its direct-to-consumer streaming video channels, said Bakish, the new chief executive officer of ViacomCBS. While programmers collect a set... More

Disney+ Exec: Service Ready to Handle Tech Issues on Launch Day (FierceVideo)

Disney is putting all its marketing muscle into hyping its Disney+ subscription video service, meaning that launch day will likely be an extremely busy and possibility fraught time... More

The Rise of Data Streaming (IT Pro Portal)

Real-time data processing and streaming data architectures are on the rise. This might come as no surprise to many, as multiple reports validate that real time streaming has become... More

Netflix’s Podcast Slate ‘Deepens’ Space Around Original Content, Programmers Say (Variety)

It should come as no surprise that, in its quest to become a full-blown entertainment ecosystem, Netflix has built a roster of podcast programming to complement its scores or origi... More

Video Streaming Emerging as the Killer app for 5G in U.S. (Rapid TV News)

Research from IHS Markit is predicting that the 5G era is set to drive the next wave of growth in video streaming, with as many as 78% of US consumers indicating in the survey that... More

YouTube TV Adds Subscription Options for AMC Networks’ Acorn TV, UMC (Variety)

Google’s YouTube TV now offers two more add-on channels to subscribers, under an expanded pact with AMC Networks: British TV service Acorn TV and UMC (Urban Movie Channel), which... More

Apple TV Plus Can Afford to Gamble $6B in a Way That Disney, Hulu Can’t (The Verge)

Apple is reportedly spending $6B on its initial lineup of TV shows and other originals that will land on its streaming service, Apple TV Plus. That’s about $5B more than what App... More

YouTube Getting Rid of Messaging Feature (Variety)

YouTube is killing off a feature that allowed users to share videos and other messages with each other. YouTube Messages, which was first introduced in January of 2017, will be tur... More

Hulu and Amazon Prime Video Chip Away at Netflix’s Dominance (TechCrunch)

Netflix is still the No. 1 subscription streaming service in the U.S., according to a new report from eMarketer, but rivals including Amazon Prime Video and Hulu are starting to cu... More

Scorsese’s New Mob Epic, ‘The Irishman,’ Has Netflix and Theaters at Odds (NY Times)

When Martin Scorsese signed with Netflix to make “The Irishman,” the star-studded epic scheduled to have its premiere on the opening night of the New York Film Festival next mo... More

Singing – and Streaming – to Success on Broadway (Grammy.com)

How the success of streaming platforms has launched an unorthodox new wave of Broadway productions.... More

Confluence of Streams (Digital TV Europe)

Subscription VOD services are proliferating. Questions are arising about the affordability and convenience of stacking multiple offerings. “Partnerships with one or several SVOD ... More

Streaming a Big Issue in SAG-AFTRA Election (LA Times)

As members of Hollywood’s largest union vote to elect a new president in the coming weeks, actors and other performers are already signaling their worries about getting left behi... More

MIT Experts Find a Way to Reduce Video Stream Buffering on Busy WiFi (Engadget)

No more fighting with your family over who gets to stream in HD. A team from MIT have come up with a tool to help multiple people share a limited WiFi connection.... More

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