Over The Top (OTT)

AT&T Loses 199,000 Video Subs in Q2 27 July 2017

AT&T saw a decline of 351,000 “traditional” video subs in Q2 due to “seasonality and elevated competition” with a decline of 156,000 DirecTV satellite subs and 195,000 IPTV customers in the period. At the end of Q2, DirecTV Now had … Continue reading

Increasing listeners in China have begun to pay for online music subscription 27 July 2017

In China out of the 600m Chinese who listen to music online, only 20m have a paid subscription that typically costs between 8 and 12 yuan (between $1.2 and $1.8) a month. Rest of the listeners don’t pay anything for … Continue reading

With increase in TV viewing, YouTube viewers hits 1.5bn 27 July 2017

YouTube viewers has increased to 1.5 billion monthly which is the result of a rise in big-screen viewing as per company stats. According to Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, people are watching an average of 60 minutes a day of YouTube … Continue reading

Subscribers from mobile drives growth for Netflix 27 July 2017

Netflix added 5.2 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2017 reaching 100 million subscribers and some of that gain can be attributed to mobile. In the second quarter of 2017, 5.2 million subscribers were added reaching a total of … Continue reading

Apple TV includes Bounce’s Brown Sugar Streaming Service 26 July 2017

Bounce has introduced its Subscription Video Streaming Service on Apple TV’s 4th-generation media hub that includes a large collection of movies and TV shows that either include in the starcast or are created by African-Americans. It is available via Android … Continue reading