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Canada’s Bell becomes the latest telecom to move towards OTT 19 May 2017
The latest from North American telecom: Canada’s Bell, is that it will deliver an over-the-top (OTT) video service with an app-based mobile platform from $14.95 a month and will include 30 channels plus all major Canadian and U.S broadcast network’s … Continue reading
North America Pay-TV subs to fall by 10 million 2012-2022 28 March 2017
According to a Digital TV Research, the US and Canadian Pay TV markets are set to headwinds as the industry is hit by subscribers dropping services and a rise in on-pay homes. The research stated that Pay TV subs in North … Continue reading
Cord-cutting in Canada is at record levels 24 March 2017
According to a a latest research from Boon Dog, Canada’s publicly trading television service providers on a whole continued to lose a record number of TV subscribers in 2016. The research stated that the big traditional TV service providers lost … Continue reading
Hopster launches on Roku 16 January 2017
Kids educational subscription OTT platform Hopster has launched its services through Roku’s streaming platform in countries including US, Canada, France, the UK and Ireland. The service will now be available in English as well as in French in France. Users … Continue reading
Amazon Prime Video Launches in Canada 06 December 2016
Amazon prime has decided to get worldwide and even exceed the number of countries that Netflix is present in and to further this plan the OTT video streaming platform launches in Canada. Other video streaming services such as Netflix and Bell’s … Continue reading
JungoTV launches Omai TV throughout North America, Europe and Vietnam 30 November 2016
JungoTV has announced the launch of a new video streaming platform Omai TV, which hosts some 5,000 hours of Vietnamese, Chinese and Korean programming available across North America, Europe and Vietnam regions. The new OTT platform comes in content partnerships with KBS, … Continue reading
Canadians Shifting Away from Traditional TV: Survey 28 October 2016
According to a recent report by The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissions, canadians are consuming more audio and video content on digital media over internet connected devices. 20% of surveyed Canadians reported using music streaming services online, and 57% of Anglophones … Continue reading
James Bond spies Canadian SVOD CraveTV 25 October 2016
Canadian SVOD service CraveTV, which is owned by telco Bell, has has inked a programming deal with MGM and acquired the rights to James Bond library of films, giving its upcoming movies a feature of the famous British spy. The 007 collection, … Continue reading
SVOD Catches up with Free services in UK 22 September 2016
UK has always been lagging behind from US and Canada when it comes to the adoption of subscription video streaming services like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video. However, according to a recent research carried out by RBC Capital Markets, Netflix has been … Continue reading
US Viewers Set Pace for Global SVOD 09 September 2016
According to a recent research, US viewers are far ahead of other markets when it comes to consuming subscription video streaming services. More than half of US internet users subscribe to one or more of video streaming platform such as Netflix, Hulu … Continue reading
