1 in 10 English speaking Canadians now watch just web video, no TV at all 19 February 2015
Nearly one in 10 anglophone Canadians say they no longer watch any TV shows the old-fashioned way and only stream or download content online, according to a new study. In a telephone poll with 4,002 Canadians conducted late last year on … Continue reading
Strategy, not original content, will be the key to winning the OTT race, says TDG analyst 19 February 2015
Online video streaming sites from Netflix to Amazon to Yahoo are scurrying to create original content that will poach viewers away from their rivals. But an analyst with The Diffusion Group says that pouring money into scripted entertainment is a … Continue reading
MoffetNathanson downgrades US Cable over Video-On-Demand surge 19 February 2015
MoffetNathanson, a major media research analyst in the United States, has downgraded three major cable stocks and expressed anxiety about the threat of tough regulations on the sector, and in effect is applying its own ‘cord-cutting’ on the cable sector … Continue reading
Competing with VOD, Pay-TV middleware solutions to gross USD 2 Billion by 2020 19 February 2015
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Global Pay TV Middleware Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $1.05 billion in 2014 and estimates this to reach $2.03 billion by 2020. The study covers the IPTV, cable, direct to home … Continue reading
Jeremy Jordan, Anna Kendrick starrer The Last Five Years releases on theaters & VOD 18 February 2015
RADiUS premiered THE LAST 5 YEARS, Richard LaGravenese’s (BEHIND THE CANDELABRA) big screen adaptation of the 2002 Off-Broadway musical by Tony Award winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown, in theaters and on VOD on February 13, 2015. Anna Kendrick and Jeremy … Continue reading
Streaming Video is the future of OTT entertainment 18 February 2015
This streaming of entertainment rather than buying and owning is largely driven by a connected world with faster access to the internet, coupled with large-scale infrastructure development to Online video streaming service is blissfully advertising free. Not before the show. Not during … Continue reading
Multi-screen video delivery is what will kill the TV 18 February 2015
Call it cord cutting. Or call it the rise of online video streaming platforms. Whatever you call it, traditional #tv viewing has slipped dramatically among viewers between the ages of 18 and 34. Fresh ratings numbers from The #nielsen Co. (as … Continue reading
Netflix grabs Jamie Dornan’s Jadotville at Berlin Film Festival 18 February 2015
Netflix next year will release “Jadotville,” a war film starring “50 Shades of Gray” star Jamie Dornan. In a statement, the streaming video service said the movie “thrillingly depicts the 1961 siege of a 150-strong Irish UN battalion… by 3,000 … Continue reading
Pyramid Research predicts five-fold growth in SVoD accounts by 2019 17 February 2015
A research report by Pyramid Research finds that cumulative paid OTT revenue from SVoD and TVoD services is projected to be as much as $18.8 billion for the 2015-2019 period, over 80 per cent of which will come from the … Continue reading
Go cable-free, choose VOD : Max Byres, BrandPost 17 February 2015
The FCC’s most recent #report on the cost of cable found that the price of expanded basic cable service increased by 5.1 percent in 2012, and additional reports show that those prices have continued to rise, unabated, ever since. Millions of … Continue reading
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