DreamHack, the Swedish eSports production company, partners with Caffeine for livestreaming of its gaming events including Global Offensive, Counter-Strike, and Dota 2 tournaments for the rest of 2019. As per the reports, Caffeine is supposed to livestream a total of 10 DreamHack tournaments that will mainly include events from Rio, Spain, Sevilla, Sweden, Jonkoping, Texas, …
According to the Q1 reports of Netflix, the video streaming giant adds 9.6 million new subscribers in the first three months of the year, despite increasing competition from rivals. Now, Netflix has a total of 155 Million global users with almost 148 Million paying subscribers. With this, Netflix makes up nearly 30% of global video …
SonyLIV – the popular Indian streaming platform, now includes live sports events such as NBA, UEFA Champions League, and other international content, in its premium subscription pack. Despite the inclusion of live sports content, SonyLIV has made no changes to its subscription fees. Its premium subscription plan is priced at INR 499/yearly, INR 99/monthly, and …
Hulu, the American streaming service company acquires AT&T’s 10% (technically 9.5%) stake in the company over a deal of $1.43 billion. With this transaction, the unprofitable Hulu now values at $15 billion. As AT&T exits the board, Disney and Comcast remain the sole owner of Hulu with 60% and 30% stakes respectively. Upon this acquisition, …
According to insider sources, e-Commerce giant – Amazon may launch its free ad-supported music streaming service before the end of this April. The service would be made available only on company’s Echo devices through Alexa and is supposed to offer a limited catalog of tunes of major music labels. Currently, Amazon has two music streaming …
ESPN+, the sports streaming service owned by Disney, is expecting to attract 8 to 12 million subscribers by the end of 2024. Although, ESPN+ is supposed to incur US $650 million annual losses for the current financial year 2019-2020, the leading eSports platform would reach profitability by 2023. According to Morgan Stanley’s Predictions, ESPN+ will …
Walt Disney Co. confirms its plan to launch its family-friendly streaming service – Disney+ on 12th November. The ad-free premium streaming subscription service is supposed to feature a bundle of exclusive movies & TV shows from the world’s popular entertainment franchises and will cost around $7 monthly and $70 annually. As per the reports, Disney+ …
Spotify, the music streaming giant with more than 207 million subscribers worldwide, launches a new analytic tool for music marketers to track the performance of ad campaigns. The tool is supposed to help artists understand the streaming conversion metrics minutely, and manage future promotions accordingly. The metrics will mainly determine the behavior and actions of …
PewDiePie, world’s largest independent content creator with more than 100 million YouTube subscribers, partners with DLive – the blockchain-based live streaming platform, for exclusive livestreaming of weekly shows. As per the reports, the livestreaming of PewDiePie’s weekly shows will start from April 14 and will be exclusively available on DLive’s website as well as apps. …
Finally, Apple Music records more number of paying subscribers than Spotify in the US. As per the reports, Apple Music counted almost 28 million paying subscribers in February, while Spotify just crossed the 26 million mark. Spotify, a free ad-supported music streaming tier, has more than 207 million active users worldwide, out of which 96 …
