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Tips For A Successful Video Streaming Business 01 July 2015
Anytime soon, content owners, content producers and broadcasters will have to address the elephant in the room. Whichever way they may try to see it or show it to you, linear TV viewing and traditional TV is losing its … Continue reading
Viability of streaming services questioned 15 June 2015
Despite the surge in sign-ups for video on demand streaming services, the SVOD industry faces two key challenges: low revenues per-subscriber, and the prospect that many consumers will drop out when the free trials end. That’s the cautionary view … Continue reading
‘Daredevil’ gets a second season on Netflix 23 April 2015
The Man without Fear — aka Daredevil — will be protecting Hell’s Kitchen in New York City for another season now that VOD service Netflix has renewed Marvel’s popular, gritty superhero series. Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) may be a lawyer … Continue reading
Aziz Ansari is making a Netflix sitcom with Parks & Rec producers 23 April 2015
Aziz Ansari is teaming up with some of the producers of Parks & Recreation for a new sitcom at video on demand distribution service Netflix. Deadline reports that the currently untitled show, which stars Ansari, has been given a 10-episode run. Eric Wareheim … Continue reading
Stan, Netflix lead in volume of video streaming content on offer 22 April 2015
The Foxtel and Seven West Media streaming service Presto is trailing its rival vod platforms in Australia in the amount of video content it offers, according to a new study. Content-focused app company Gyde found that Presto currently offers 4009 hours of television and movie content (including … Continue reading
Internet TV to replace linear in 20 years, says Netflix 20 April 2015
Over the next 20 years internet TV and video on demand platform are going to replace linear TV as the way that people consume video, according to Netflix president and CEO Reed Hastings. Speaking on the firm’s first quarter earnings … Continue reading
Netflix Doesn’t Want to Kill HBO. It Wants to Kill TV. 17 April 2015
We’ve heard a lot about the battle between HBO and video on demand service Netflix in recent months, prompted by HBO’s move to offer its own Netflix-like Web service. But Netflix’s bumper Q1 earnings yesterday gave CEO Reed Hastings a … Continue reading
Netflix Gains More Users Than Projected, Benefits From Cord Cutting and Cable Decline 16 April 2015
Netflix Inc. added a better-than-expected 4.88 million subscribers in the March quarter, as the streaming service sacrificed some profits to keep up its aggressive international expansion. Investors cheered the subscriber growth, which topped Netflix’s own forecast for 4.05 million additions. … Continue reading
NO, Joe Hockey, a ‘Netflix tax’ wouldn’t raise ‘billions’ 14 April 2015
During the ongoing debate about tax evasion by multinationals, Joe Hockey has claimed that his latest thought-bubble, the “Netflix tax” would raise “billions”.To get “billions” of GST revenue from anything you need tens of billions of revenue. The total online … Continue reading
Same-day on-demand releases offer convenience but hurt theaters, writes Drew Pendleton 14 April 2015
In the past few years, a trend has begun to take hold in the movie marketplace: the same-day, video-on-demand release. In this scenario, a film is released on both digital video on demand platforms and in theaters – typically in … Continue reading
