Blockbuster quietly reborn as successful TVOD 26 June 2015
OTT history has come full circle, with Blockbuster – the fallen video rental giant that once famously turned down the chance to purchase Netflix for a (relative) pittance – having been reborn in Denmark as a quietly successful, exclusively … Continue reading
North America SVoD revenues $7bn by 2020 26 June 2015
North America already had 50.6 million SVoD homes [for movie and TV services only – excluding sports] by end-2014 – or 38.8 per cent of TV households and 48.1 per cent of fixed broadband homes, according to a report … Continue reading
No distinction between OTT and pay TV in “two to three years” 26 June 2015
Pay TV operators need to simplify the client-side equipment they provide and focus on open-source and cloud-based technologies to achieve the necessary scale and agility to see off OTT TV platforms as competitors, according to Ken Morse, CTO of … Continue reading
Netflix to Boast Larger Audience Than Big Four Networks Within Year 26 June 2015
Online video on demand service Netflix will within about a year have a bigger daily audience than each of the big four TV networks, an analyst said Wednesday. Working from the 10 billion hours of streaming the company reported in … Continue reading
Digital Video Viewing Builds Slowly in Germany 26 June 2015
In Germany, traditional TV is still the center of most consumers’ video experience, according to Deloitte. Researchers quizzed 2,000 consumers in the country ages 14 to 75 in April 2015. For the first time, this Deloitte study was tailored … Continue reading
