Facebook’s deal with ICE hints at its own music streaming service 26 February 2018

Interesting deals gain your numbers in the stock market and shares of Facebook gaining more than 1.3% in trading hours last week re-establishes the fact. Facebook struck a deal with ICE, a pan-European online music licensing firm which was described … Continue reading

Facebook to have its own Alexa 26 February 2018

The thriving success of Google Home and Alexa have prompted the social media giant Facebook to come up with its own smart speaker and if rumors are to be believed, it may see the daylight in the upcoming summer itself. … Continue reading

Lightbox TV to launch VoD platform 26 February 2018

Lightbox TV is all set to launch “Lightbox Movies, a video-on-demand movie service with a pay per view model. It is also expected to launch a tiered service soon which will have a standard and premium subscription. A Transactional Video … Continue reading

Kwese buys “significant stake” in iflix 26 February 2018

Pay-TV provider Kwese acquires a “significant stake” in iflix Africa. Kwese, the Econet Media-owned company which was already in an existing relationship with iflix was a partner in launching Iflix’s SVOD service in sub-Saharan Africa. iflix is currently operating in … Continue reading

Sling TV registers 2.2M Subscribers in 2017 23 February 2018

Dish Network-owned OTT platform Sling TV registered 2.2 million subscribers in 2017. This is for the first time that Dish has disclosed its customer count and also it claimed to have registered 11.03 million customers during the year. The Sling … Continue reading

90% of users prefer to watch online content on mobile:Hotstar report 23 February 2018

Hotstar, the OTT platform of Star India reports that affordable data charges are resulting in promising growth for OTT consumption in mobile with close to 90% of users preferring to watch online content on smartphones, tablets etc. Hotstar report also … Continue reading

CenturyLink brings the curtain down on its OTT TV Beta Service 23 February 2018

In less than one year, CenturyLink is pulling the plug on its online video platform CenturyLink Stream, a national OTT TV service. The video-on-demand platform will officially end effective March 31, 2018. While the online platform is no longer accepting … Continue reading

SVOD subscriptions in the US touch 125 million 23 February 2018

According to reports, although the US consumer spending on SVOD is still just 10% of the total pay TV market, 2018 is going to witness a substantial growth. The growth will be driven by the quicker expansion of a “plethora … Continue reading

Fox News launches own OTT platform Fox Nation 22 February 2018

Fox News is all set to embrace the OTT vibe with its new online video platform Fox Nation. The digital wing of Fox News will be launched in the fourth quarter of 2018. Fox Nation subscribers will have access to … Continue reading

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