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Movie Theatre vs OTT: The Curious Case of SVOD Originals 05 April 2018
In 2017, when Netflix was participating in Cannes Film Festival with its action-adventure film Okja which got 4-minutes of standing ovation after the screening, little did it know that it will be ruled out of the film festival the next … Continue reading
4K streaming, Augmented Reality, and other OTT trends in 2018 11 January 2018
The year 2017 bade adieu in style with the sensational $52 billion acquisition of Fox by Disney. While the entertainment industry is yet to get past the historical event, 2018 has come up with more promises, bigger expectations and not … Continue reading
Streaming Websites beat Cable TV in popularity 03 January 2018
With Netflix now having 89 million users under its belt and popular TV shows shining brightly in its content catalog, cable TV is the one which is hit worst by this. This has resulted in a substantial decrease in the … Continue reading
Cox Communications cable service now includes Netflix 11 December 2017
Premier Contour cable service from Cox Communications shall now include Netflix programs as an add-on service, and can be viewed through their cable box. Cox and Netflix unveiled the carriage deal earlier this month and announced that the subscription for … Continue reading
Global pay-TV subscriber base hits 1.05BN at the end of Q2 2017 29 September 2017
60 million customers were added to the total number of pay-TV customers in the first half of the year according to research from Dataxis. IPTV and Linear Over the Top represent the major growth in the market of 1.05 billion … Continue reading
Netflix surpassed cable TV in terms of number of subscribers in the U.S 20 June 2017
Netflix has put an end to the dominance of cable TV. According to Statista and Leichtman Research Group, at the end of March 2017, cable TV had 48.6 million subscribers v/s 50.9 million Netflix subscribers according to the Statista and … Continue reading
Online video subscribers on the rise in China 16 June 2017
China is witnessing an exponential growth in digital video. Its subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) segment is attracting larger audiences compared to live streaming video which has also been growing rapidly. The number of SVOD subscribers in China will reach 144.0 million … Continue reading
Netflix outgrowing Cable TV 14 June 2017
Traditional cable TV has been surpassed by Netflix in terms of total subscribers, for the first time as per Leichtman Research. Compared with 48.61 cable TV subscribers, Netflix accounts for 50.85 million subscribers. Small cable networks (5% of total cable … Continue reading
Cable usage on the decline, video streaming on the rise 12 June 2017
Internet users prefer streaming video than cable according to a new research conducted by CBS. According to a study by Fluent LLC based on cable and TV habits of internet users, 67% of people from all age groups used some … Continue reading
US viewers “strongly prefer” a la carte 05 April 2017
Hub Entertainment Research’s ‘Let’s Get Ready to Bundle’ report says that USA viewers would strongly prefer a TV service model where they select and pay for only the individual networks they’re interested in watching. Some 53% of those who surveyed … Continue reading
