Film4’s The Favourite joint-leads with 10 Oscar nominations
Cold War also bags three nominations
TiVo Releases Revamped Video Trends Report
31% of over 4,000 viewers in the US and Canada do not currently or never have used any major monthly OTT/SVOD service
Freeview Launches New Streaming Mobile App
Freeview, the UK’s biggest TV platform, today launched its mobile app for iOS devices. In just three taps, you can stream live shows from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 and on demand content from BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, My5, and UKTV Play whenever and wherever, [...]
Netlix Adds 8.8m Subscribers in Q4 2018
Global streaming giant now has 139m worldwide subscribers and grew annual revenues 35% in 2018 to $16 billion
Hisense brings TV Games, powered by 24i, to all next generation Smart TVs
24i Media, the leading, global streaming video app developer, today announced that they have partnered with Hisense, a global electronics giant and one of the world’s leading TV manufacturers and technology leaders. Hisense’s next generation of Smart TV models equipped with a VIDAA system will have the TV [...]
DAZN Drives Global Growth with Social Video through Grabyo Partnership
DAZN, the online sports streaming service owned by DAZN Group, has enjoyed an impressive 2018 leveraging the power of social video to bolster its brand awareness and drive subscription growth using Grabyo. DAZN has used Grabyo’s platform to deploy a targeted video distribution strategy across its social channels on [...]
ITV Studios Produced 8,500 Hours of Content in 2018
ITV Studios - and its associated labels which are part of ITV Studios - produced a record high of 8,500 hours of content in 2018. The company, which now has more entertainment shows in more territories than ever before, produced five of the top ten best-performing shows (as [...]
Guigo TV selects Globecast as content partner for its new Brazilian OTT platform
Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, announces it has partnered with Såo Paulo, Brazil-based Guigo TV to provide 12 channels in Brazil for Guigo TV’s new OTT platform. The channels cover various genres including sports, lifestyle and children’s programming. The channels include Bloomberg, Combat Go, Freckle, [...]
Mediamorph Achieves Record-Setting Year in New Customer Acquisitions in 2018
Customers across the entire entertainment ecosystem are leveraging Mediamorph's Content Value Management (CVM) platform to drive innovation and accelerate growth
SpotX Releases Predictions About 2019 Video Advertising Trends in New Report
Research shows four key changes in OTT, traditional TV, online video, data activation, and transparency within the video advertising landscape
UKTV Play invests in AI to enhance user experience
New app uses machine learning and "constant algorithm adjustments" to learn viewing preferences and surface content
Investment in UK Content Tops £1bn Per Annum
Investment in UK content by multichannel broadcasters has grown by 75% on 2011, yielding an increase in annual investment by multichannel broadcasters of £416m
NBCUniversal to Launch New D2C Service
Launching in 2020, new service will be ad-supported and reach 90m US households
IMDb Launches Freedive – A Free Streaming Video Channel Featuring Hit Movies and TV Shows
New service will be supported by advertising and will be available on the IMDb website and all Amazon Fire TV devices
Grabyo teams up with Tennis Australia to expand global content offering ahead of Australian Open
Grabyo will enable the creation of engaging video experiences for tennis fans worldwide
Hulu Tops 25m Total Subscribers in 2018
48% YOY subscriber increase fuelled by investments in technology and exclusive content
2019 Predictions in Media & Entertainment
In 2018, media and entertainment providers have worked hard to revolutionise the way they deliver content to consumers across a changing media landscape, especially in terms of gaining a deeper understanding of metadata to connect viewers to content. Charles Dawes, senior director, international marketing at TiVo, takes a look at what trends and developments he predicts may emerge in 2019.
VOD Industry 101: New Staff Briefing
Not a complete guide but here’s some of the material that we cover when a new starter joins VOD Professional. A new recruit, Juliana, joined us here at VOD Professional last month and on her first day, I gave her an overview of the online video industry. I [...]
10 VOD Talking Points for 2019
Eschewing the tradition of trying to predict what’s going to happen over the next year, here instead are some OTT industry developments that I think we’ll be talking about in 2019.
RTL Group to Acquire Yospace
Yospace solution provides targeted and seamless advertising insertion on streaming services; its acquisition will help to further grow RTL Group’s global ad-tech business and to build local streaming champions
