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The key trends to follow in 2019 in the digital media industry (TV, Cinema, streaming services)

As usual, at the beginning of each year, let’s take a look at the trends to be followed in the year to come in the media and entertainment industry (TV, Cinema) and online video (streaming services). 2019 promises to be rich in new products and innovations, in terms of content, business models, distribution and technology.  …

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Netflix Locks Up Deal For ‘Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons’

Netflix is going behind bars. The streamer has ordered a new series of “Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons,” the factual series that looks inside notorious jails. The SVOD service acquired the earlier version of the show, which was commissioned for Viacom’s Channel 5 in the U.K. It then started talking to the producers of the…

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Une étude du CSA et du CNC sur la SVOD qui manque d’envergure

Business : Le CSA et le CNC ont profité du Festival pour publier une étude sur le marché de la SVOD en France. Le rapport comptabilise 100 pages et se décompose en 3 parties principales : l’analyse du marché français, la stratégie des services de SVOD et les perspectives d’évolution du marché. Cette étude s’appuie…

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Netflix to raise $1.9 billion in debt

Netflix has priced a bond offering of US$1.9 billion, which it plans to use for “general corporate purposes” – including content acquisitions, production and development. The senior note offering was upped from US$1.5 billion, which was initially announced yesterday. The sale for the revised amount expected to close on April 26, 2018. The notes will…

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Increase conversion on your VOD platform with free trial

If you have created a subscription offer (SVOD) for your video content, you know how difficult it is to find an audience. But it is even more difficult, once you have started to grow, to keep them on the long term and convert them into loyal customers. One solution to break this conversion barrier is to offer…

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Netflix Could Start Buying Movie Theaters to Help Films Gain a Boost in Oscar Race — Report

Netflix has made a strong effort to land Oscar nominations since debuting its first original feature, “Beasts of No Nation,” in 2015. The next step in the streaming giant’s plan to secure film awards could be to buy and own movie theaters. A new report from the Los Angeles Times says Netflix is considering buying theaters…

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Stream or silver screen: Netflix pulls plug on Cannes, is Hollywood next?

Tilda Swinton in the Netflix film Okja, directed by Bong Joon-ho. Audiences booed the Netflix logo when it was shown at the Cannes film festival in 2017. Photograph: Kimberly French/Jae Hyuk Lee Netflix’s decision to pull out of the Cannes film festival highlights the tension between streaming companies and the cinema industry over how movies…

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The official selection for Cannes 2018

Main Competition Everybody Knows by Asghar Farhadi En Guerre Stéphane Brizé Dogman by Matteo Garrone Le Livre D’Image by Jean-Luc Godard Sorry Angel by Christophe Honoré Asako I & II by Ryusuke Hamaguchi Girls of the Sun by Eva Husson Ash is Purest White by Jia Zhangke Shoplifters by Hirokazu Koreeda Capernaum by Nadine Labaki Burning by Lee Chang-dong Blackkklansman by Spike Lee Under the Silver Lake…

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La sélection officielle pour Cannes 2018

Cette 71ème édition du festival de Cannes se déroulera du 8 au 19 mai   La liste des films en compétition Everybody Knows (Todos lo saben) d’Asghar Farhadi (en ouverture) En Guerre de Stéphane Brizé Dogman de Matteo Garrone Le livre d’image de Jean-Luc Godard Netemo Sametemo (Asako I & II) de Ryusuke Hamaguchi Plaire, aimer et courir vite (Sorry…

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RTVE and commercial rivals launch OTT platform to rival SVOD

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE and commercial broadcasters Atresmedia and Mediaset plan to launch a joint OTT TV platform that could see them compete with the likes of Netflix, Movistar+, HBO and Sky in the Spanish market. The three broadcasters initially plan to launch an interactive TV platform, based on the HbbTV connected television standard, that…

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Stream Nation: U.S. Consumers Spend $2 Billion Monthly on Streaming Video Services

/.c-breadcrumbs /.l-article__header /.c-featured-media Americans are watching more streaming video than ever — and they now pay an estimated $2 billion each month on subscription-video services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. That’s according to the Deloitte’s 2018 Digital Media Trends Survey, which found found that 55% of U.S. households now subscribe to at least one video-streaming…

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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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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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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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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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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…

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A spike expected for Video Streaming in 2018

Video streaming expected to spike in 2018 A full 65.1% of Internet users worldwide will stream video regularly this year, thanks to the expanding availability of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services, including Netflix, HBO Go, Shomi and Youku Video. According to eMarketer, this will help spur overall viewer growth of 7.2% in 2018. And on the…

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Disney Developing Several ‘Star Wars’ TV Shows For It’s SVOD Service

  Disney Developing Several ‘Star Wars’ TV Shows For Upcoming SVOD Service Following Disney’s announcement in August that it was ceasing a distribution deal with Netflix to launch its own streaming service, CEO Bob Iger teased yesterday that the Lucasfilm owner is developing “a few” Star Wars TV shows for the forthcoming platform, which will undoubtedly…

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YouTube and Netflix leader among Chilean youth

  YouTube, Netflix reign among Chilean youth When it comes to their favourite use of the Internet, Chile’s younger generation gives a big thumbs up to watching video. The Radiografía Digital report from telco and pay-TV provider VTR has revealed that 79% of youngsters and kids between five to 17 spend over an hour a…

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The End of Geoblocking in Europe ?

Begin: WordPress Article Content At last an end to geoblocking in Europe? Nope, not by a long chalk… The European Commission is holding a press conference later today to trumpet progress made on ending “unjustified geoblocking”, as it tells it, with the stated aim of greasing the wheels of pan-EU ecommerce in time for Christmas….

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Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Tripling Original Content Spending by 2022

Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video to triple by SVOD original content spending by 2022 Examining the five-year content strategies of the three leading subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) firms, research firm TDG predicts that by 2022 the amount invested by Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video in original series will triple to $10 billion annually. The…

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Online Videos and VOD : summary of 2017 and 2018’s trends

In 2017, the online video market skyrocketed. Internet became more and more powerful and overcame Television in several fields, like ad revenues. Let’s do a recap of 2017 : market, uses, formats, content and try to understand what 2018 will bring us ! 1. The fast-growing VOD market, widening the gap with the physical video market What…