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All ‘Major’ TV Networks to Launch OTT, Direct-to-Consumer Services by 2022: TDG

Seeing select premium networks alongside a few other channels going direct-to-consumer (DTC) with streaming services is more than a passing fad. Citing the ongoing unbundling of cable TV packages in the coming years, The Diffusion Group predicts that all “major” TV networks will introduce OTT-powered, direct-to-consumer services by 2022. That, of course, would build on…

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How To Boost Inbound Marketing Using Explainer Videos

Why does Explainer Video make a Big difference in Inbound Marketing Campaigns? Why does Explainer Video play a Vital role in Video Marketing Campaigns? Why should we choose Explainer video rather than a Blog post? If you have a product trying to sell it, What will Do? Here You will get the solution to all…

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Analyst: US pay-TV revenues to fall by $27bn

Analyst: US pay-TV revenues to fall by $27bn March 12, 2018 US pay-TV revenues peaked in 2015, at $101.71 billion (€82.51bn), according to the eighth edition of the North America Pay TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. A $26.58 billion decline (26 per cent) is forecast between 2015 and 2023 to take the total…

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Euro SVOD revenue grows 128% between 2011 and 2016

  Data released by the European Audiovisual Observatory has given yet more acknowledgement of the power of subscription video-on-demand in the overall pay on-demand market, representing 66% of total 2016 service revenue, compared with only 11% in 2011. The Trends in the EU SVOD market – 2017 Edition report calculated that such a penetration meant…

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CBS All Access Plans To Debut ‘Six To Seven Originals’ Over Next Year

OTT service CBS All Access is going the way of Netflix (though it’s still a LONG ways off) with plans to release “six to seven originals” over the next year. Joseph Ianniello, COO of CBS, announced the company’s plans yesterday during the Deutsche Bank Media & Telecom Conference in Palm Beach, according to The Hollywood Reporter….

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Spain: OTT subs double in a year

Spain: OTT subs double in a year From David Del Valle in Madrid March 7, 2018 OTT platforms are gaining momentum in Spain, having doubled the number of subscribers over the last year. A report from AIMC (a Media Research Association) has revealed that the number of OTT subscribers has risen from 9.5 per cent…

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Latin America pay TV ‘set to stagnate’

Latin America is due to add fewer than five million additional pay TV subscribers between 2017 and 2023 as OTT services deepen penetration in the region, according to new a new study. Digital TV Research’s eight Latin America Pay TV Forecasts report claims that subscriber count in the region will reach almost 76 million in…

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Oscars 2018: the full list of award winners

The full list of 2018 Oscar winners and nominees is below, listed as they were announced. Best Picture Call Me By Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post WINNER: The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Actress in a Leading Role Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) WINNER: Frances…

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TVPlayer revenues up 600%; Management appointments

TVPlayer revenues up 600%; Management appointments March 5, 2018 TVPlayer has announced record growth for its live-TV streaming service in the UK. The platform has added more than 40,000 net customers to its premium pay-TV service in the last quarter, positioning TVPlayer as the fastest growing complete pay-TV platform in the UK. TVPlayer now has…

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Previsions say that Global SVOD will hit 450 million subs by 2022

Global SVOD subs will hit 450 million in four years The rise of subscription on-demand services seems unstoppable. The number of households worldwide that pay for streaming video services like Netflix and Amazon Video is due to rise to more than 450 million by 2022, according to Strategy Analytics. The research firm claims that the…

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Netflix leader of VOD in Spain

Netflix tops VOD in Spain, LATAM Parrot Analytics has revealed that over 85% of the video-on-demand (VOD) original digital content consumed in Spain, Mexico and Brazil is viewed on Netflix. During 2017, 88% of the original content consumed through VOD platforms in Spain was watched on Netflix, while the remaining share was driven by other…

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Sony launches Xbox One support for its sVOD service

Sony launches Xbox One support for Crackle Sony has launched a new app for its subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service Crackle that supports Xbox One in Latin America. Under the terms of an agreement between Sony and Microsoft, XboX One owners will gain access to Crackle’s SVOD catalogue, which they can subscribe to through their pay-TV…

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The Deal, between Netflix and Air Bud Deal, for Chinese sVOD

    Netflix kids films to Chinese SVOD net through Air Bud deal Four kids films recently produced for Netflix are headed for China through a deal on-demand service iQiyi has struck with LA’s Air Bud Entertainment (ABE). The deal comprises the Pup Star franchise and others ABE has produced with The Walt Disney Company,…

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What’s Social Video Ad?

People are watching lots of Social Media Video Content from different Social Media Platforms. Does anyone know exactly What is Social Video Advertising? Nowadays Video Content is increasing the prevalence of Social Media Platforms and become more native to these platforms. Here you will find What is Social Video Advertising and its Role. YouTube has…

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Why Is Multi-Platform Content Video Distribution The New Trend

Multi-Platform Content Video Distribution : Next Big Thing Most multi-channel networks are now focused on becoming multi-platform networks. Multi-Platform Content Video Distribution across multiple platforms, not just YouTube. These mobile-focused new media companies initially birthed and aggregated their videos as channels on YouTube only. The new MPN game for most is to now initially build mass…

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Using Blockchain for Digital Marketing

Blockchain for Video Advertising: The Next Big Thing in Digital Marketing Are you intended to use Blockchain for Video Advertising? How is the blockchain transforming the digital marketing and advertising? To what extent the advertisers and publishers are satisfied by using blockchain technology? The role of blockchain in video advertising has been explained here. What…

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US sVOD hiting 125m subscribers in 2018

US SVoD hits 125m subs in 2018 February 20, 2018 The overall US video and pay-TV market continues its healthy overall growth and is set to reach $140 billion (€113.5bn) by the end of 2018, according to a video entertainment report from Futuresource Consulting. This is despite the continuously evolving and challenging landscape. Whilst the…

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CBS successful with its All Access OTT service

CBS surpasses expectations for All Access OTT service CBS has almost five million subscribers for its CBS All Access and Showtime digital streaming services, and CEO Les Moonves believes that subscriber growth for the two over-the-top (OTT) products are ‘far beyond where we expected them to be’. On the analysts’ call following its most recent…

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Kagan Survey : Your behaviour defines your sVOD consumption

Kagan: Digital entertainment behaviour reflects SVoD uptake February 19, 2018 Results from a recent UK consumer survey carried out by Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence, indicate that it is digital entertainment behaviour, rather than demographics, which best identifies the profiles of current and future users of online subscription video on…

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Blockchain engineers are wanted !

Begin: WordPress Article Content Blockchain engineers are in demand Demand is off the charts for blockchain talent, and the capital is waiting to back it up. More than $3.7 billion has been raised through ICOs in the United States alone. Blockchain-related jobs are the second-fastest growing in today’s labor market; there are now 14 job…

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Can Netflix Get Better?

Netflix Is Getting Huge. But Can It Get Great? Think of Netflix as the Upside Down in its sci-fi series “Stranger Things.” By this I don’t mean that it’s a nefarious or dangerous force. But it is a kind of alternative TV dimension, overlaying and replicating the known world of traditional television, that tries to…

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Euro SVOD market to be worth nearly $7 Billion by 2022 ?

Localised offers to drive Euro SVOD market to be worth nearly $7BN by 2022 The over-the-top (OTT) subscription online video-on-demand (SVOD) market in Europe should keep growing over the next five years, with revenues soaring 74% from 2017 to total $6.8 billion, says research from Kagan. Kagan calculates that total paid subscriptions in 14 key markets…

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YouTube Red is expanding

Begin: WordPress Article Content YouTube is expanding Red to more countries YouTube Red will expand its subscription service to as many as 100 countries, according to YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki . Speaking at Recode’s Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, Calif., Wojcicki said that YouTube will be looking to expand its Red service “to…

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Why should Operators Embrace SVOD for Next Generation

Operators Should Embrace SVOD to Attract Next Generation SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Operators should embrace subscription video-on-demand services, making it easier for younger viewers to access their Netflix, Amazon Prime Video or Hulu subscriptions, a duo of researchers told attendees at the NCTC Winter Educational Conference here Monday. Parks Associates senior director of research Brett Sappington…