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Music Key : Why Youtube is giving Netflix, Amazon and Hulu sleepless nights 03 February 2015

Netflix has built a more than $22 billion company around its subscription based VOD service. Hulu’s 5 million paid members helped drive it to $1 billion in revenue in 2013. So it’s no surprise that ad-supported video behemoth YouTube sees potential … Continue reading

Warner Bros. and Sony come together to feed the Asian Netflix rival 03 February 2015

Top Hollywood studios Warner Bros. Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television have joined hands to feed a joint start-up with Singapore-based telecom giant SingTel. The white label VoD service is to be called ‘HOOQ’. With an offering of over 10,000 blockbuster titles, will look … Continue reading

Southward-bound Netflix and Disney ink deal in Australia 03 February 2015

Prior to it’s launch in Australia and New Zealand in March, white label VOD provider Netflix has gone on to join hands with Disney to serve Disney, Walt Disney Animation Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm content to … Continue reading

Canadian Netflix rival snags Amazon originals 30 January 2015

Canadian SVOD service Shomi has acquired exclusive local rights to a raft of Amazon’s original programming. Shomi launched last year and is going up against Netflix and Latte in an increasingly competitive Canadian streaming market. Shomi has exclusive streaming rights … Continue reading

Amazon opens free window for Transparent drama 30 January 2015

Amazon is making its acclaimed drama series Transparent available in a day-long free window. The series launched last year on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video and marked the first time that the streaming service had launched an original using the Netflix simultaneous … Continue reading

Netflix partners with SVOD rival Shomi for Canadian original 29 January 2015

Netflix and its streaming rival Shomi are joining forces to make Between, which will star kids TV favourite Jennette McCurdy and was created by Michael McGowan and Resident Evil producer Don Carmody. City TV and Shomi, which are both part of the … Continue reading

Stan nabs Amazon series, launches ahead of Netflix 29 January 2015

Stan has become the latest subscription video-on-demand service to roll out in Australia, beating streaming heavyweight Netflix, which will launch in the territory later this year. The new service is a joint venture between free-to-air broadcaster Nine Network and Fairfax Media. … Continue reading

iZombie invades Canuck Netflix rival 23 January 2015

New Canadian SVOD service Shomi has acquired exclusive streaming local rights to Rob Thomas’s upcoming drama iZombie. The series will launch on US broadcast network The CW in the 2014-15 season, following the exploits of a young female medical student … Continue reading

Netflix moves for another BBC/Sundance drama 22 January 2015

Netflix has acquired upcoming BBC and Sundance drama series One Child. Netflix has recently picked up exclusive US streaming rights to another BBC drama,Peaky Blinders, while commissioning a King Kong cartoon, a comedy from director Judd Apatow, F for Family, an … Continue reading

NATPE: US viewers flocking to streaming 22 January 2015

A new study from NATPE and CEA says that over 70% of US consumers have streamed full-length TV shows in the past six months with Netflix the category leader. Comedy was top among Millennials and 57% of those surveyed in that … Continue reading