Industry Updates

Twitter out, Amazon to now stream NFL 07 April 2017

Amazon on Tuesday signed a $50 million, one-year deal to acquire the streaming rights for NFL – Thursday Night Football. The games will be available exclusively to Amazon Prime subscribers. Amazon beat out it’s rival bidders Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to acquire the … Continue reading

eSports revenues to reach $3.5bn by 2021 07 April 2017

According to a Juniper Research study, the increasing consumption of eSports and live streaming games will lead to $3.5 billion (€3.29bn) revenues by 2021, up from $1.8 billion in 2017. The research reported that through subscription services will attract more … Continue reading

Netflix and Amazon strongly favored over local SVOD platforms in Germany and India 06 April 2017

According to a recent survey by Jefferies, Netflix and Amazon are way ahead and strongly favoured over local subscription OTT platforms in India and Germany. The research states that the good performance of original content is driving this growth for … Continue reading

VOD, OTT, Music & Gaming to overtake traditional media in India by 2022 06 April 2017

According to a recent EY media report, digital media may overtake traditional by 2021-22 as the broadband and smartphone penetration increases. Broadband penetration will be equals to one third of the smartphone penetration by 2021-22 and the costs will come … Continue reading

Consumers subscribing to multiple streaming services are on the rise 06 April 2017

According to a recent report by 451 Research, about a fifth of US consumers are paying for more than one streaming services. The research noted that 19% streaming users subscribed to three or more OTT platforms, which is four points … Continue reading