Indie Film Marketer Gets Candid About VOD Release Strategies 27 August 2015
Windows in the Home Entertainment space continue to shrink. Just recently,Paramount announced a deal with AMC Theaters and Cineplex shortening the time from the theatrical release to the home theatre screen. Now, only two weeks after a film’s theatrical … Continue reading
Turkish Telecoms Face Increasing Triple-play Competition 26 August 2015
Fitch Ratings expects that increased focus on bundled services like online video on demand, within the Turkish telecoms market could lead to an increase in content costs, especially for live football broadcast rights. Expanding pay-TV services can help telecoms … Continue reading
Yahoo’s Most Vocal Investor Wants To Turn It In To A Video Streamer 26 August 2015
Hedge fund manager and influential shareholder Eric Jackson has a long and complicated history with Yahoo and its CEO, Marissa Mayer. Jackson has been an on-and-off shareholder in Yahoo since 2006, and during that time he has never shied … Continue reading
Cablevision First Pay TV Provider To Distribute CBS And Showtime Over-The-Top To Broadband Customers 26 August 2015
Following a similar move which saw it becoming the first internet service provider to distribute HBO NOW to its broadband customers, New York-area cable TV company Cablevision announced this morning that it will offer its internet customers the ability to subscribe to … Continue reading
Hulu Teams Up with Facebook’s LiveRail to Sell Ads Based on User Data 26 August 2015
Hulu’s ads are going “programmatic”: The Internet TV site is launching an invitation-only ad-buying marketplace powered by Facebook’s LiveRail, to let marketers target ads using data about who’s watching the video. According to Hulu, the new programmatic system will result … Continue reading
