Netflix Gains 9.6 Million Subscribers in the First Quarter of 2019 17 April 2019
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 … Continue reading
SonyLIV Adds Live Sports Events to Premium Subscription Plan 16 April 2019
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 … Continue reading
Hulu Buys Back AT&T’s 10% stake for $1.43 billion 16 April 2019
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 … Continue reading
Amazon Ready to Launch a Free Music Streaming Service by the End of April 15 April 2019
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 … Continue reading
ESPN+ to Gain 12 Million Subscribers Worldwide by 2024 15 April 2019
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 … Continue reading
Disney Unveils the Release Date & Pricing of its New Streaming Service – Disney+ 12 April 2019
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 … Continue reading
Spotify Introduces New Conversion Metrics to Measure Ad Performance 11 April 2019
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, … Continue reading
YouTube Star PewDiePie Partners with Blockchain-based Live Streaming Platform 11 April 2019
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 … Continue reading
Apple Music Overtakes Spotify in terms of Paid US Subscribers 10 April 2019
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 … Continue reading
DocuBay – Video Streaming Platform for Documentaries, set to launch this Summer 09 April 2019
DocuBay, a global subscription-based video streaming platform, dedicated to international documentaries is now set to launch this summer. In its first phase, DocuBay is supposed to be available in India with a distinctive documentary content for Indian audiences. As per … Continue reading